The Open Data Tourism Hack-at-Home aims to create apps to help cities manage the challenges of tourism. 

Open Cities has just launched a new call-out to take part in the Open Data Tourism Hack at Home challenge, a project focused on encouraging the creation of mobile apps to help cities to better manage the challenges and benefits of tourism. 

AppCircus has launched the Sanitation App Challenge: a powerful initiative driven by the World Bank, which is bringing together app makers from around the world to build app-based solutions to help communities improve local sanitation issues.

For more information: http://sanitation.hackathome.com/

 

BlindSquare is an augmented reality GPS application for the blind.

BlindSquare makes you sense what's around. You only need to be a good listener. It obtains information about the surrounding environment from FourSquare and Open Street Maps. It’s algorithms enable it to determine the most relevant information, and then voice it out using high quality speech synthesis. For example, “What's the most popular café within 200 meters radius?”

 

Barcelona will implement the winner project of 'The Urban Lab Challenge 2012' in public buildings
The innovative system developed by JAP and PGI Engineering proposes to use the walls of buildings to generate energy and improve air quality. The objective of the project 'The Urban Lab' is to transform Barcelona into an urban laboratory where innovative products and services are implemented.

For more information, refer to any of the following sources:

Fraunhofer Open Data plaform is currently implementing for the city of Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Amersfoort. Also the Province of Flevoland has adopted the platform. You can already check out: www.flevolandopentdata.nl and www.amsterdamopendata.nl. Soon to follow are www.datacatalogus.nl and www.rotterdamopendata.org.

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This project is partially funded under the ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) as part of the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme by the European Community.