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CitySDK will be the subject of a presentation at the Smart Data for Government conference in London on the 23rd-24th September. Speaking at 9.40 on the morning of September 24th, Adrian Slatcher will be talking about “Enabling Cities to Open Data” Recognising the need for skills such as code fellows…
CitySDK will be presented at the Open Living Lab Days in Amsterdam. Come and join us in discussing how cities could and why they should share best practices, code and services and collaborate on shared standards. WS5: CitySDK APIs boosting Smart City App development Date: Wednesday 3rd of September Time: 11.30…
On June 12th, the research group Digital Life of Create-IT organised the Measuring Amsterdam event. During this event, keynote speakers talked about Crowdsourcing, Amsterdam as a Smart City and data visualization. We also performed measurements and observations on the Wibautstraat (Knowledge mile) during the event. These measurements are derived from…
CitySDK partner Province of Rome presented its Open Data portal in 2012, answering to the need to fulfill an institutional duty while gaining, most importantly, an extraordinary opportunity to better serve the local (and broader) community through transparency, raising the degree of participation from citizens. In practice, this respectable…
The latest net-Xperiment issue of the Net Futures magazine presents a selection of FIRE initiatives, including CitySDK. The FIRE – The Future Internet Research and Experimentation – initiative is addressing the need to experiment with networks, by creating a multidisciplinary test environment for investigating and experimentally validating innovative ideas…
At a time where Lisbon is perceived as one of the must visit European capitals, Vodafone has now launched Vodafone Lisbon Big Apps, to find out and reward the best future smartphone applications that will focus on improving citizens, tourists and workers’ lives. Initially, the 20 best ideas will be selected for a development…
On 11 of April, Lamia organized the 2nd Night Run Festival with a lot of fun activities. The race consisted of two courses (3Km and 10Km), categorized as city run and took place inside the city. To help the organizing committee, runners, volunteers and audience, involved with the event, Gnosis…
CitySDK project was set to harmonize APIs across cities in Europe. Helsinki together with Amsterdam, Lisbon, Lamia and Rome implemented an issue reporting API. The API is also compliant with Open311 interface, which is used in several cities in US and elsewhere. We now launch the CitySDK challenge where we…
In Manchester we have been working with the linked data platform developed by Waag Society for the last year. We were given a preview of it last March where we were able to make it available to developers at the FutureEverything Festival Transport Innovation Challenge, where a number of…
Tourism sector is important for the economies of many countries and cities that depend on the touristic activities to support the local economy. Nevertheless, the sector is going through deep changes and the established paradigms are shifting, as the conventional tourists are starting to demand customized and innovative experiences,…