The system can call 911 if someone has a heart attack and hits the floor, or call parents if kids try to throw a party. The Internet of Things: By 2020, between 22 and 50 billion devices will be connected to the Internet, providing citizens with an unprecedented array of smart... 
Cities could soon be looking after their citizens all by themselves as researchers develop an operating system for the urban world. Via Domenico Di Siena The Open Government Partnership is a global effort to make governments better. We all want more transparent, effective and accountable governments -- with institutions that empower citizens and are responsive to their aspirations. But this work is never easy. Via Piotr Drozd, cafonso 
"Today, TED announced the winner of the 2012 TED Prize: the City 2.0. Breaking from their tradition of recognizing an individual global innovator, TED is embracing the concept of crowd-sourcing urbanism (an idea we obviously support at Open Source Cities). The organizers published this call-to-arms in seeking ideas on the City 2.0: “The City 2.0 is the city of the future … a future in which more than 10 billion people on planet Earth must somehow live sustainably, together. The City 2.0 is not a sterile utopian dream, but a real-world upgrade tapping into humanity’s collective wisdom. The City 2.0 promotes innovation, education, culture and economic opportunity. The City 2.0 reduces the carbon footprint of its occupants and eases the environmental pressure on the world’s rural areas. The City 2.0 is a place of beauty, wonder, excitement, inclusion, diversity, life. The City 2.0 is the city that works.”" Via Howard Rheingold 
All of these technology trends are linked strongly to the power of geospatial technology to synthesize, visualize and analyze global change. http://www.ted.com After a crisis, how can we tell if water is safe to drink? Current tests are slow and complex, and the delay can be deadly, as in the chol... 
Over the years we've seen loads of Arduino hacks and mods -- a DIY kit that lets plants tweet, a robotic iPhone, and even touchscreen Via Luca Perencin 
Thanks to cloud computing and cheap sensors, a 2.5-inch rubber block is moving the lofty vision of the Internet of Things a big step closer ... |
Five billion people can’t use the Internet. Aleph Molinari empowers the digitally excluded by giving them access to computers and the know-how to use them. 
Crowd-funding has become extremely popular over the last years. Lots of cultural, artistic and design initiatives have already been made possible thanks to platforms like Kickstarter. But will this work for urbanism too? 
20 Global Cities call for technologies to improve the lives of 100 Million citizens. Submit your solution now to pilot your solution in the world’s leading Cities. 
In the quest for a more optimistic analogy for the Internet of Things, I suggest we take a look at nature. Our living world has been around for millions of years, a good reason to trust its efficiency and sustainability mechanisms. Via Richard Kastelein & Adriana Hamacher 
Bey2ollak is one of two Egyptian start-ups which are US bound, following their participation in the NexGen IT Entrepreneurs Boot Camp last month. 
Once there is a critical mass of participants, distributed citizen sensor networks will reveal new emerging patterns that will lead to a new collective intelligence. Citizens will soon become aware of the political power of data and they will begin to get organized in local work groups to develop new strategies to improve their neighbourhoods. The massive adoption of sensors will bring their price down, allowing anyone to participate in the extension of this smart city data layer, regardless of their income..... Via Viktor Markowski 
Sopa and Pipa would give US authorities the power to block sites accused of copyright infringement at the domain level – in other words to make them disappear from the internet by rendering them unfindable. (This is what happened briefly to WikiLeaks in the furore following Cablegate, and it's exactly what authoritarian regimes everywhere would like to do to sites that go on about democracy, human rights and other annoyances.) 
Working together to make our #Cities great via @EngagingCities http://t.co/C9IrOxtl #urbanism #cplan #abbotsford... |
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