This year could be a turning point for the humanitarian aid sector which hardly changed for the last 75 years. With the first World Humanitarian Summit in ...
Dublin’s Open House events
Open House events take place in Dublin this weekend where the public gets access to public facilities, offices and private dwellings. Upon booking, ...
Good architecture for Kolkata
Nearly 100 smart cities are developed in India at the moment. Newton, a city just outside Kolkata, is one of them. Equipped with a wifi zone, smart LED ...
The struggle of social sciences with big data
Despite social scientists express a high interest in the use of big data technology, the impact of big data on the social sciences has so far been limited ...
Victory for San Francisco’s cycling advocates
A group of anonymous cycling advocates set up a number of provisional safe-cycling interventions in San Francisco. The city decided now to keep one of the ...
How ICT empowers women and girls in Senegal
Various initiatives in Senegal aim at increasing the digital literacy of women and girls to increase their chances for employment and participation in ...
The benefit of arts for neighborhood revitalization
The Housing and Neighborhood Development Services (Hands) has already been a major force in driving the renewal of Orange, New Jersey before it founded ...
How will citizens respond to smart cities?
Seven members of Forbes Technology Council offer their insights. Forbes …
The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
Initially founded in 2010 as a respond to the earthquake in Haiti, the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team has developed and spread globally. The project ...
Study on Manhattan’s 19th century development
A new study from Barnard College outlines the rapidly evolving land-use patterns in Manhattan in the mid-19th century. The study covers a period from ...
