Towards a low-carbon future — SETIS The Information System for the European Strategic Energy Technology Plan (SET-Plan) The European Strategic Energy Technology (SET)-Plan aims to transform energy production and use in the EU with the goal of achieving EU worldwide leadership in the production of energy technological solutions capable of delivering EU 2020 and 2050 targets. The move towards a low-carbon Europe requires innovative research, effective strategic planning and an emphasis on timely and appropriate action. SET-Plan and SETIS Overview The European Strategic Energy Technology (SET)-Plan aims to transform energy production and use in the EU with the goal of achieving EU worldwide leadership in the production of energy technological solutions capable of delivering EU 2020 and 2050 targets. SET-Plan A fourth Communication, in 2013, is expected to reinforce the modalities of the SET-Plan implementation, as the overarching umbrella for energy research and innovation for the Horizon 2020 initiative.
Smart Cities in Europe Intelligent Cities - Smart Cities - Innovation Εcosystems Welcome ! | Opencities Open Cities challenges are designed around four themes: open data, crowdsourcing, urban labs and fiber-to-the-home. The challenges are open for individuals and organizations and aim to foster the development of products and services based on the platforms provided by the participating cities. The Innovation Challenge Share your ideas and win! The Open cities project calls for developers to collaboratively brainstorm in our Open Data Forum about these two Open Data problems: >read more Open Cities app challenge App Winner: BlindSquare Are you developing apps using open data? This challenge calls for apps using any kind of open data. Urban Lab challenge Project Winner: LPW (Leaves Performative Walls) Test your project in a real urban environment! This challenge offers participants a chance to install their product in a dedicated space in the city. Open Platform for Broadband Services Test your broadband service in real life! Crowdsourcing challenge Make your city SMARTER!
OpenCities — Opencities by Stanza. The Global soundmaps project. An online open source database of city sounds field recriding and soundmaps from around the world. Initially all sounds by Stanza you can now contribute your own found sounds. Soundcities is an online database of t The soundmaps and the database can be listened to, used in performances, or played on mobiles via wireless networks. Initially all sounds by Stanza, you can now contribute your own found sounds. Special feature if you go to the world soundmap you can click to go via KML files onto google earth. New installation uses 170 speakers in spatialised system see New Soundmaps software uses new system to mix and gather the sounds online see. Soundcities is an open online database of the thousands of sounds from around the world and you can visits the various cities and create soundmaps.. Soundcities was the first online open source database of city sounds and soundmaps from around the world, using found sounds and field recording. The sounds of cities also give clues to the emotional and responsive way we interact with our cities. A growing labyrinth, a community of aural cityscapes and collages is now evolving. I have spent the last 20 years travelling to over 20 worldwide cities. 1. 2. 3 .
Urban Omnibus | 50 Ideas for the New City The Omnibus is all about ideas. From the beginning, Urban Omnibus has been a showcase of good ideas for the future of cities, conceived in the public interest and tried and tested in the five boroughs of New York. So, we have decided to surface some of the ideas that have appeared on Urban Omnibus over the past two years and broadcast them around the city. In April 2011, we released a series of Idea Posters, pasted on fences, scaffolds and storefronts from Jamaica, Queens, to the Upper West Side of Manhattan, and many places in between. Below you will find 50 ideas for New York already explored on Urban Omnibus and a space for you to share your own.
About Hi. I’m Chris Messina and this is my blog. I maintain a current bio as well. I live and work in San Francisco on the Diso Project with Steve Ivy , Will Norris , and Stephen Paul Weber , among others . I run Citizen Agency , a consulting company focused on the effective and appropriate use of social media combined with open source values and practices. I maintain a gallery of screenshots of interfaces , representing my interest in user interaction and interface design. I find lots of cool links from across the web and share them . I once worked on the Spread Firefox project, doing the design of both the site and the two-page New York Times ad , but that was a while ago now. I helped start the BarCamp and coworking communities, and am involved in the development of technologies like OpenID , OAuth , microformats , Portable Contacts and activity streams . I am on the boards of the OpenID and Open Web Foundations and advise TarPipe , Urban Airship and Perpetually .