The passport blog of BBC has collected a number of must-have apps for looking like a local when visiting another country. A number of iPhone and Android apps

Oracle provides a fully integrated, policy-driven, set of automated business processes, which straddle heterogeneous platforms and fragmented protocols, fully supporting modern municipal operations across back-office and front-office operations for all constituent services and city assets

Amsterdam is lauded as the most energy-efficient city in Europe but emissions are rising. Bruno Berthon, managing director of sustainability services at Accenture, writes in Guardian about what lessons can be learnt from various smart city initiatives.

Most of the current ICT-based city and urban developments are deploying vertical solutions leading to an unsustainable sea of systems and market islands. This paper discusses how the recent vision of the Future Internet (FI), and its particular components,

In a paper at SIGGRAPH 2010 Microsoft presented Street Slide, which combines the best aspects of the immersive nature of bubbles with the overview provided by multiperspective strip panoramas.

The Data-gov Wiki is a project of the Tetherless World Constellation at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, investigating open government datasets using semantic web technologies. The project is translating such datasets into RDF, getting them linked to the linked data cloud, and developing interesting applications and demos