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101 small ways to improve your city
Curbed just published a great list of small things people can do (ACT!) to improve their...
Better Block
Better Block is an organisation providing resources (e.g., How to Build a Better Block) to help...
Beat the Street Game
Beat the Street is a community game that encourages people to walk or cycle around the...
Cars in Bike Lanes – Crowdsourced Map
carsinbikelanes.nyc is a website where people can post photos of cars blocking bike lanes...
Project Sidewalk – Crowdsourced Mapping
Project Sidewalk is designed and operated by the Makeabilty Lab at the University of...
MBTA Endorses Transit App
The Boston area public transport operator MBTA held a competition during the summer to...
Traffic Agent Transport Game – Oslo
The City of Oslo Norway has developed a fantastic app that blends gamification with reporting. The...
radwende.de – Art + Bike Advocacy
radwende.de is a really neat project from Wiesbaden Germany. They use a GPS tracking app to...
Chicago Array of Things Project Sensor Data
Chicago is installing sensors throughout the city in a project called Array of Things (AoT) to...
Crowdsourcing Clean Drinking Water
Here's a great post from the Planetizen Blog Crowdsourcing Clean Drinking Water, Interview with...
Interactive App: Vehicle Speed versus Pedestrian Injuries
ProPublica has developed a very effective interactive application that shows the chance of being...
Power to the People – Excellent ideas from Tom Saunders of NESTA
Tom Saunders of NESTA has written an excellent post: Power to the people: how cities can use...
Data Crowdsourcing Updates – April 2016
There are many new opportunities for people to help collect and analyse data and help improve...
Rating Reporting Apps in Asian Cities
The website GovInsider compares four government "complaining apps" designed to provide information...
AirTick – Air Quality Monitoring from Selfies
AirTick is a project from Pan Xheng Xiang at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore,...
AirVisual – Crowdsourced Air Quality Community
AirVisual calls itself "the crowdsourced air quality community". They have developed a home air...
Crowdsourced Air Quality Data in China
Crowdsourced air quality data is making news in China. According to Bloomberg News, "Besides...