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In the week of February 3rd, 2500 first year students from the University of Applied Science of Amsterdam collaborated to create new apps using open data for Amsterdam. During the SIM (Students in Motion) week, 250 teams of 10 students each were assigned to a specific neighborhood in Amsterdam.…
The November Issue of the MSDN Magazine concentrates on the government-focused app development scenarios and therefore promotes the Open311 standard. Tim Kulp, the leader of the development team at United Healthcare International in Baltimore, demonstrates the benefits of the Open311 API by integrating it into Windows Store apps. According…
ICT 2013, the event on digital technologies and ICT organized by the European Commission, took place in Vilnius (Lithuania) from the 6th to the 8th of November, 2013. 5.000 people attended the conference and visited the exhibition, including 80 highly rated international speakers. Around 200 stands and 180 networking sessions…
On Tuesday 26 November the Guardian published an article regarding importance of holistic approach to smart city planning. Centralized operations systems should engage with citizens and not just monitor them; citizen should question policy and the use of big data, while also contributing to it. From the business of…
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…
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…
On 22nd of September, Lamia organized the 7th Hercules Mountain Marathon with a lot of activities. The race consisted of three courses (6.2Km, 16.2 Km and 42.3Km), categorized as mountain run and took place on the mountain Oiti home of mythological hero Hercules. To help the organizing committee, runners, volunteers…
The article titled “CitySDK: Helping cities open their data and giving developers the tools they need” was published on the 5th of September on the Digital Agenda for Europe. The article highlights the benefits of the CitySDK toolkit and introduces all three pilot domains: Participation, Mobility and Tourism. To read…
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. …