An interesting report written by Eddie Copeland tries to explore the possibility of applying a risk-prediction model regarding hazardous buildings, created by Mayor’ s Office of Data Analytics (MODA) in New York, in the case of London. Continue reading
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Palo Alto’s Chief Information Officer, Jonathan Reichental discusses smart cities, digital transformation, leadership, and innovation in local government. Continue reading
This book, published by Mobile City Foundation as part of its Hackable Research project, aims to offer a closer look at the implications of ‘˜hackable city making’ in the form of a Hackable City Research Manifesto and a ‘˜hackable city toolkit’ . This toolkit could give designers, policy makers and citizens a number of ideas to approach projects that they might be working on, providing also a number of strategies to include in their projects. Continue reading
Local Governments and the Sharing Economy is a roadmap helping local governments strategically engage to foster more sustainable cities. It’s also useful to audiences including city staff, local politicians, sustainability practitioners and Sharing Economy innovators, Sharing Economy critics and supporters. Continue reading
The Task Force of the City Protocol Society completes successfully and publishes the four foundational Collaboration Standards to promote solutions to common city challenges. City Protocol is a collaborative innovation framework that fosters city-centric solutions which benefit citizens and their quality of life. Continue reading
mySociety published a research paper, which seeks to answer the most basic questions about who actually uses civic technology and why. Gathering data from civic technology groups from around the world, it shows the variations in usage of civic tech across four core countries (US, UK, Kenya and South Africa), and records the attitudes of users towards the platforms they are using. Continue reading
The Guardian presents the efforts of European cities to use open data in order to improve public services and create smarter cities across the continent. As data opens up, the urban dwellers across Europe reap the benefits of them in city planning. Continue reading