One year ago, E-Government Bulletin published a special report on BeNeighbors.org, an initiative from the pioneering non-profit E-Democracy.org to connect communities in two neighbouring US cities – Minneapolis and St Paul, known as the Twin Cities – using online forums (see E-Gov Bulletin 346: http://bit.ly/XnE5T0). Funded with a 625,000 US Dollar grant, the project had ... Read More
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EGB Special Report: Smart Citizens Make Smart Cities
Friday, October 5th, 2012By Tristan Parker Can our environment be improved by better access to information? A digital participation project in Barcelona aims to prove it can. The Smart Citizen project (http://smartcitizen.me/en/) begins by measuring and recording environmental data such as air quality and temperature, using low-cost sensors. The data is then uploaded to an online Smart Citizen ... Read More
Augmented Reality is New Environment For Local Data
Wednesday, August 15th, 2012A new pilot project is allowing citizens to see local service information such as planning applications and food hygiene ratings of cafes projected live onto images or videos of their local area using “augmented reality” (AR) software. Data can be seen overlaid live onto locations by pointing a smartphone or tablet computer with a camera ... Read More
US challenge on for community smartphone apps
Tuesday, November 8th, 2011Judging is set to end this week for a major US government challenge to find the best smartphone apps that help people access local public data to improve their lives. Top prize in the contest is 30,000 US Dollars in development funding, with eight other prizes on offer totalling a further 70,000 Dollars. During the ... Read More
