This section is used as a more informal blog, rather than specific news.
Today Open311 was the primary inspiration for CitySDK team to develop its own API to help European cities communicate more efficiently with their citizens. Potholes, broken traffic signs, abandon vehicles are some of everyday requests’ types that are being submitted on Open311-compliant servers around the world. Citizens using their…
Istanbul as being one of the most crowded and attractive cities in the world, hosts several hackathons nowadays. But one of them was remarkable where Istanbul City data were used by the developers. Thanks to CitySDK Project, Istanbul transport data was opened by the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality for the HACKATHONIST organized…
Imagine a city where public decision-making is easy for all to follow and comment on using any digital channel. A solution to this challenge is being sought in Helsinki, which has long been working to unlock the data reserves related to municipal decision-making. In September 2013, more than 1,000…
FutureEverything Festival ‘Tools for Unknown Futures’ Manchester, 27 March – 1 April futureeverything.org FutureEverything, Manchester’s city-wide ‘festival as laboratory’ returns from 27 March – 1 April 2014 with the theme ‘Tools for Unknown Futures’. The thought-provoking programme will feature a pop-up city, the next generation of data art, sound installations,…
Lisbon is committed with the opening of data sets with high value for civic participation and support to economic activities and to the development of new services. As a result, several data sets, including points of interest and events occurring all over the city, are available in a portal…
End users and Critical Infrastructures are the preferred targets, also within Cities: In 2006, John Aycock published in his book “Computer Viruses and Malware”, a timeline for malware and virus. The first one was a virus which attacked single computers. Then, with the growth of local networks and Internet, worms were…
Citizens of Helsinki can report non-emergency issues, such as potholes and broken street signs to the City of Helsinki using a new service. Helsinki’s “FixMyStreet-style service was opened last March, and it received positive feedback both from the media and citizens. The service was released by Metro-newspaper and can be…
Nowadays, we see that the developer community is really interested in hackathon events all over the world in order to develop interesting and useful applications collaboratively. These events are also named as “DevCamp”, “Hackday”, “CodeFest”, “Innovation Challenge”, “Unconference”, etc. in various cities. Now, a new name for the list: “HACKATHONIST”!…
by Ron Boonstra, reposted from Waag Society On Friday 30 August I was sitting next to developer Bert Spaan when he put the finishing touch to his datavisualisation of all buildings of the Netherlands, according to their year of construction and I just had some time left to put the fact…
CitySDK develops, together with its project partners, smart solutions for many countries. As these solutions become more common, some local issues may arise. It is important for us to share the problems we face and the solutions we find with our project partners and project implementers. Being the first…