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The European Mobility Week campaign, which took place from 16-22 September 2019, targets urban authorities and stakeholders. The aim of the campaign is for authorities to learn from cities and towns about the most recent urban developments and reduce car-use and transport emissions. more
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The non-profit organization NewCities creates well-founded content about new trends in urban development worldwide. As an exchange platform, they aim to connect the most important stakeholders of the urban ecosystem, such as academic institutions, governments, civil society organizations and locals. They have also initiated the CityWellbeing Award – an award handed to cities which are global more
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We recently had a look at other labs in Europe and beyond and have made some very interesting discoveries. As we mainly focussed our research on mobility-related labs, the following list of our Top 10 labs is concerned with similar topics as we are. However, there are also some labs that follow an open approach with their publications and inspire their readers and followers to lead a more more
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India, with a population of over 1.3 billion in 2017, is one of the most populous countries in the world. The remarkable growth of migration in urbanizations has forced India to think seriously about the restructuring of cities. more
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Sweden wants to become fossil fuel free by 2045. The city of Malmö is a showcase project. Sweden's third-largest city is to be supplied exclusively with renewable energy by 2030. In the district of Hyllie, various approaches are being tested, which can be used initially in the rest of Malmö and later throughout the country. more
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Mark Shuttleworth is an African Entrepreneur, who is particularly interested to improve the world's social, economic and political landscape in using communication technology. His Foundation offers scholarships to individuals to implement their innovative ideas for social change. Openness is the key requirement more
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Depending on which point of the Globe you are, you have more or less happy experiences concerning the traffic flow. For some cities, traffic congestion is a frustrating factor with which citizens live every day. What will be the most chaotic cities? more
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Let the sun shine down on … the Solarkiosk. Sustainable energy provision is regarded as one of the key cornerstones for the future growth of especially rural communities in developing countries. Just think about services like healthcare, sanitation or education - all rely on energy supply to run the equipment. While there is some form of access for metropolitan areas like Cape Town or Dakar more
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Barcelona is one of the smart cities that has always been at the forefront in terms of taking advantages of digitalization. For this purpose, it offers the laboratory for urban innovation, where the public, private, social and academic sectors are the protagonists of change. more
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As a way to improve working conditions, being completely independent and promoting a quality and environmentally sustainable service, the delivery riders cooperative was born. more
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Estonia has only been an independent country for 26 years, but has quickly gained a reputation as a "Cyber-State". To keep it that way, the data that supports and defines Estonia's government and administration should also be stored on servers in other countries , in a kind of embassy. more
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Singapore wants to arm itself against the constantly rising temperatures. A team of international scientifics and government experts want to use the latest technologies to cool the city down. more
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When the goal is the benefit of communities, everything is possible. Through the Sharedstreet project, the public and private sectors go hand in hand, providing data for safety, monitoring and street management. more
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Viewing the fact that societies can solve almost everything through mobile phones and the internet, we wonder what happens to places where the Internet is scarce or almost impossible. We can say that countries, like Kenya, know how to avoid that absence very well. more
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The dream of sharing data, without limits and safely, is gaining more and more space in our digital present. New and innovative providers are generating attractive open source tools that allow users to take full control of their own data. more
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Equal access to information and communication is an important issue on government agendas. For this reason, Digital Villages Project (DVP) has been created. In Kenya, DVP has adopted the name of Pasha Centre, whose main objective is the expansion of the Information and Communication Technology sector beyond urban areas. more
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Sweden's ambition to become fossil fuel free by 2045 is a great example of climate leadership. With plans of installing a public dashboard to track the transition across all sectors the Swedish society is also up for the challenge. The Swedish technology company MapLauncher is prototyping the Climate Dashboard, that hopefully helps to keep on track in terms of halving emissions, not only in more
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Big Data, small Data, transparent or exclusive. Data is everywhere. It is the currency by which the biggest companies in the world run. Well, in fact, it is the currency by which the world operates from IT to municipal. But there is an imbalance between the creators of data and the ones making a profit from it. And this is why topics of data sovereignty and data literacy are on the rise - more
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Across Europe, the growth of new digital technologies increases the participation of communities and organisations in facing social and environmental challenges. Digital Social Innovation places civil actors as active protagonists of development. more
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The ability to access, control and use personal data has become a major challenge and more worrisome a means by which big internet companies can drive profits. This is DECODE's starting point for asking: Is it possible to develop tools that enable individuals to collectively share personal information on their own terms? And if so, how do we design these tools? more
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In Windhoek, the capital of Namibia, the local social startup SunCycles is making solar power E-Bikes. A very bright idea, not only because Namibia is one of the sunniest countries in the world with an average of 300 days of sunshine a year... more
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The animated short movie “A Brief History of CO2 Emissions” illustrates the complex topic of global warming and climate politics. more
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Gabriel Plassat, founder of FabMob, is part of our exciting first expert round on Open Source Mobility. With the FabMob initiative he is working to create a number of open platforms, engaging partners in a growing network – he would say ecosystem – of mobility. We are thrilled to have him at the Open Source Lab to share his experiences. more
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Max Kortlander, public researcher of Waag Amsterdam, will be one of the invited experts in our discussion on Open Source Mobility. Waag is a middle-ground organisation composed of research groups that work with both grassroots initiatives and institutional partners across Europe. more
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Welcome to the fantastic wonderland of drones, this time with fins instead of wings or wheels. I do quite an amount of research on city strategies for dealing with environmental challenges. As stated before the Smart City Concept is the technological answer for most authorities these days. Rotterdam is no exception, actually it is the opposite. more
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While German politicians are still discussing whether they want to allow the small electric scooters at all, the Berlin-based start-up TIER Mobility wants to establish this new form of micro-mobility anyhow. Following pioneering US companies like Bird, they are eager to bring the shareable e-scooter to European sidewalks. more
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We are very happy to have an Open Data expert of the Open Knowledge Foundation here with us for our discussion on Open Source Mobility. OK Labs are local gatherings of interested citizens, programmers and designers working together on software and data projects to improve our cities and neighborhoods. more
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What humans inhale trees exhale, I once heard someone say. Almost every creature on the planet inherently knows how to breathe, that is simply put, turning Oxygen oxygen into Carbon carbon Dioxidedioxide. But what is true for us is different for plants. They need CO2 and turn it into Oxygenoxygen. Being no biologist, but that sounds like trees have fantastic skills that we are in need of. more
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It might sound a little far-fetched, but as technological developments have proven many times before, the future is actually right around the corner. Technologies like Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence are at the brink of turning around the world as we know it. Now, German Researchers have created a non-human legal entity that is able to act as an economic unit by itself. more
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I will state the obvious after doing conducting some research on the future of mobility: Autonomous vehicles are on everyone's agenda - amongst among the conservative and visionary futurists alike. But promising projects on the topic are a rarity. That is why the so-called playful research project by the amazing Space10 is one worth checking out. Space10 is a living-lab based in Copenhagen more
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I found Smart Cities to be the hottest topic in modern discussions about the development of cities. Many research institutions predict that by 2050 more than 70% of the world's population will live in urban areas. That turning out to be true or not has little influence on the impact that cities have on the environment today. They are concentrated areas not only of people and buildings but more
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