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"Open-Source"--The Next Big Thing In Twin Cities Car- And Bike-Sharing?

Conrad deFiebre | The Line | September 25, 2013

What if car- and bicycle-sharing could be as simple and convenient as owning--at a fraction of the price? Some transportation leaders see a potential for "exponential" solutions to thorny problems of our autocentric culture ranging from environmental degradation to roadway and parking congestion. Read More »

30 Most Promising Young Entrepreneurs In Africa 2014

Mfonobong Nsehe | Forbes | February 4, 2014

There has never been a more inspired generation of young Africans. These builders, innovators and risk takers are fervent in their resolve to transform the continent. They are solving critical socio-economic problems, exporting African culture to the world, creating job opportunities for Africans, re-telling Africa’s stories, and writing the future. Read More »

Cloud, Social, Big Data And Mobile Technology Reshapes One African City

Joe K. Mensah | The Atlantic | December 12, 2013

As one of Africa's fastest urbanizing cities, Accra, Ghana needs to recognize the challenges it faces as it continues to grow. Read More »

Electromagnetic Pulse Caucus Battles Skeptics In Push To Protect The Planet

Billy House | Nextgov | March 11, 2013

Doomsday preppers or congressional visionaries? A small but growing cadre of House members is set to relaunch efforts to protect the nation against what they say is a very real threat: the unleashing of an electromagnetic pulse either by a solar storm or a nuclear-armed foe that could cripple much of the nation’s electrical infrastructure. Read More »

Hawaii Beacon Infuses Health IT, Care Coordination With Aloha

Mary Mosquera | Government Health IT | August 27, 2012

Some patients on the island of Hawaii live in communities far apart from each other and from physicians and hospitals, with few methods of transportation except the family vehicle. Like other rural areas, this situation puts patients with diabetes and other chronic conditions at greater risk of costly hospitalization. Read More »

How Green Building Standards Can Actually Change People's Behavior

Kaid Benfield | Atlantic Cities | June 12, 2013

Confirming previous analysis, newly published research indicates that real estate development located, designed and built to the standards of LEED for Neighborhood Development will have dramatically lower rates of driving than average development in the same metropolitan region. Read More »

IBM's Smarter Approach To Contextual Cities

Shel Israel | Forbes | June 3, 2013

I am writing a book called Age of Context with Robert Scoble. It is expected to be complete in October. Following is an excerpt from a chapter called Contextual Cities and the New Urbanists. Read More »

Improving Beijing’s Urban Transportation with Crowdsourced Mapping

Anahi Ayala Iacucci | Ushahidi | June 5, 2012

In February 2011, Ushahidi’s Patrick Meier launched a novel project with the World Bank in Beijing. The aim of the project was to see how the Ushahidi platform could be used by the municipal authorities in the city to address traffic and urban transport problems in the city.

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Public Health Departments Get Nods For Novel Data Use

Anthony Brino | Government Health IT | July 18, 2013

Three local health departments in Oregon, North Carolina and Colorado have won awards from the National Association of County and City Health Officials for data- and IT-driven projects in sustainable transportation planning, health disparity reductions and mobile immunization collections. Read More »

The Best Open Data Releases Of 2012

Emily Badger | The Atlantic Cities | December 19, 2012

Last year, Cities named ten of its favorite metro datasets of 2011 from cities across North America, illustrating the breadth of what we might learn (regarding mosquito traps! misplaced vehicles! energy consumption!) in the still relatively young field of urban open data. For this year's installment, we're going one step further... Read More »

Transportation Next on the Big Data Button List?

David Stegon | FedScoop | June 7, 2012

Could the transportation sector be the next to get its own big data button?

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UN Shows How Mobile-Phone Data Can Map Human Need

Jan Piotrowski | SciDev.Net | September 12, 2013

Tracking people’s movements after the Haiti earthquake, mapping malaria spread in Kenya, evaluating Mexico’s government policies on flu outbreak, improving national census surveys in Latin America and Africa… These are just a few examples of how mobile-phone data has been used in development, as highlighted by a recent UN report. Read More »

We've Been Looking At The Spread Of Global Pandemics All Wrong

Emily Badger | The Atlantic Cities | February 25, 2013

Five hundred years ago, the spread of disease was largely constrained by the main mode of transportation of the time: people traveling on foot. An outbreak in one town would slowly ripple outward with a pattern similar to what occurs when a rock drops onto a surface of still water...Today, disease migrates across populations and geography with a curiously different pattern. Read More »

What The Story Of A Much Talked-About Bay Area Startup Tells Us About The Future Of Health IT

Jacob Plummer | The Health Care Blog | March 24, 2013

Today, we all know how dramatically different mobile phones are than they were a year or two ago, much less back in 2004. But as the power of mobile technology increases, tech entrepreneurs have taken a lead on challenging old rules that haven’t been discussed in decades. What if the development of the smartphone could give us some clues into the future of healthcare IT? Read More »

White House Safety Datapalooza Showcases Tools That Make A Difference

John Porcari, Todd Park | Fastlane.gov | September 19, 2012

In May, DOT partnered with the Obama Administration's Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) to launch the Safety Data Initiative. The result, safety.data.gov, is an effort to release freely available government data to build products, services, and apps that advance public safety in creative and powerful ways. Read More »