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…
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…
As cities grow due to increasing population, the pressure on transportation systems increases as well, which results in more complex challenges. In the big cities transportation alternatives evolving along with the depending on geography. Istanbul is the one of luckiest cities in this respect. Roads and railways as well…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
At CitySDK @ WaagOpenSpace, developers of the API talk about the API and what they plan to do with it. This is my summary of the evening. Job Spierings: CitySDK introduction Job Spierings started the introduction by reiterating that open data for the CitySDK is important for transparency; releasing social and…
The article on Civic Innovations points out the importance of common standards. Data standardization across cities is a critical milestones that must be realized to advance the open data movement, to fully realize all of the potential benefits of openly publishing government data. More people are starting to realize the importance…