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In the context of the cooperation between the European Network of Living Labs and the World Bank, CitySDK is one of the smart city projects that can solve problems in cities in developing countries. CitySDK was presented during a workshop with the Open Data team from the Municipality of…
They never visited Lisbon and yet they know exactly where all the museums and points of interest of the city are located. And not only do they have all this information, they decided to share it with others and are now guiding tourists in their visits all around. Pierre…
Environmental protection from productive investments becomes a major task for enterprises and constitutes a critical competitiveness factor. At the same time, the viability depends on the growth capability of all production sectors as well as on the guarantee that the environmental effects will not have a major social impact.…
I am a Senior Consultant / Project Manager with 10 years of experience in IT field – working with an Italian security firm active in EMEA area – carrying projects in Ethical Hacking, Security Operation Center and Secure Software Development Life-Cycle areas. Worked with Semantic Technologies since 2007. …
In South Europe nowadays, we are in front of unprecedented financial problems. We face crisis sustainability, even more a social crisis that requires urgent action. This demands consensus on the required actions, and innovation to develop new solutions. Open data can deliver the transparency and accountability to build trust…
Open data is freely available to anyone without any copyright restrictions for monitoring, reproduction or even further redistribution. If we assure of the emerging privacy concerns and also open data from the Greek Public Sector, we can doubtlessly raise the reliability of Greece in the eyes of the world.…
On the 11 of May 2013, Lamia organized the first night run with a lot of fun activities. The race consisted of two courses (3 km and 10 km), categorized as city run and took place inside the city. To help the organizing committee, runners, volunteers and audience, that had…
We participated in the Android Developer Days in Ankara, held between June 14 – 15th at the Middle East Technical University Congress and Culture Center. Qualcomm and Turkcell were the main sponsors, with many other ICT companies. The Android Community from Ankara, Istanbul and Izmir were present and the international speakers…
Today, the institutions such as NASA, The United Nations, and the World Bank have opened their data. They have separate departments and also devoted employees working in these departments for this work. Besides the Data Experts and Experts working on open data software development, they have also “Data Stewarts”…
Traditional media is going through a horrible phase after over a century of wealth and strong position in our society. Media companies all over the world are struggling to survive, after failing to understand how quickly and powerfully the whole media landscape is changing. The disruption is of course…