Transitland is a cool new project from the open-source map developers and transit experts at...
Transitland – Public transport data and more!
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Crowdsourced Transport
iSPEX – Crowdsourced Air Quality Data Project
The European Union project iSPEX recently asked residents in 11 European cities to participate in...
Transport Planning Participation Tools from MIT
MIT's Mobility Futures Collaborative and Media Lab’s Changing Places have been developing tools to...
SeeClickFix – 2 million issues + future
Update: SeeClickFix is ten years old! Happy Birthday to a great civic crowdsourcing application!...
Who benefits from civic technology?
The study “Who benefits from civic technology? (PDF) - Demographic and public attitudes...
Smart Citizens, Smarter State Book
Beth Simone Noveck from NYU’s Governance Lab has written a new book titled “Smart Citizens,...
History of City Planning Games
Richard Moss has written an excellent history of city planning (building) games in Ars Technica....
Citizen-Generated Data and Government
A really important question about citizen collected data is how to it can be distributed and used...
Coming Soon to Google Maps: Street-Level Air Pollution
Interesting article from the Atlantic CityLab about Google adding air quality monitoring to its...
Tri Met – O Marks the Spot Game
TriMet, Portland Oregon's regional public transport operator, developed a mobile phone game to...
Planning Support Systems and Smart Cities
Here's what looks like a great reference book for participation in planning: Planning Support...
Radius Ride – Using GPS sensors to develop travel times
Arlington Virginia's Mobility Lab recently organised a "Radius Ride" from a high school to...
Gamification to Encourage Walking and Cycling
Great post on the GovLab website describing Kevin Werbach's presentation on gamification: more...
BREATHE Study Tests Mobile Phone Air Quality Sensors
The project BREATHE (European Research Council Grant Agreement number 268479) studied whether...
Citizen Sense Project
Citizen Sense is an European Research Council project investigating the relationship between...
History of the Urban Dashboard
Mission Control: A History of the Urban Dashboard is a fascinating article taking you from the...
Code of Everand – Pedestrian Crossing Game
Code of Everand Intro from Code of Everand on Vimeo. The game Code of Everand was an online game...
Breezometer – Local air quality information
BreezoMeter combines publicly available air quality data and weather data with algorithms they...