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…
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…
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,…
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…
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”!…
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…
In Amsterdam, we are currently working to enable smarter information services for tourists by implementing CitySDK. We are also looking at the possibilities of dynamic data services that might, while not yet available, greatly impact the opportunities regarding smarter information services. This means that we look further than the…
Helsinki attracted over 20 million visits last year of which a growing number by cruise ships (2012: 368.000 visitors). Compared to the size of the city – about 600 000 inhabitants – Helsinki seems to succeed in attracting more and more visitors. Russia is still the biggest source country…
Last week, Waag Society and it’s partners released Arts Holland. This platform is the primary resource for Linked Open Data on tourism and culture in the Netherlands and will play a role in the tourism (replication) pilot of CitySDK. The platform offers Linked Open Data to be used within CitySDK. Linked…