Built as a microcosm of Berlin, the game gives kids a chance to try out different roles in city life – and provides a testbed for ideas on real urban challenges

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• Games and gamification

Its a free emergency app that connects South Africans to safety just by a press of a button which tells operators who you areand where you are. GPS technology means Namola can pinpoint your location to help emergency services reach you faster. It assists Neighbourhood Watches and Community Policing Forums keep their communities safe allowing them to receive alerts of incidents

This was an online platform that community groups can use to develop online hubs for civic engagement, online organizing and information-sharing.

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P-lab es una firma evolutiva, adáptativa, creativa e innovadora, para el diseño y prototipo de soluciones para generación y aprovechamiento de valor público

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Co-constructing territories by mobilizing citizen intelligence

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• Data visualization
• Digital participation platforms

118 projects to help refugees, curated by betterplace lab

• refugees

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More than half of the world now lives in urban areas. In the U.S., urban dwellers are the vast majority of the population. What does it mean to live in a city today? What are the challenges for cities going forward? NPR explores urban life in the 21st century.

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This walking tour was designed by Aslak Ransby, Ingrid Burrington and Janet Gunter for the Internet Infrastructure Summit at Techfestival.

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Veovo instantly measures the number of passengers moving through a subway station to identify crowding and make service more efficient. The MTA can use this information to improve the deployment of staff to stations, change train distribution and plan more efficient station design.

• mass transit
• mobility

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Nonprofit artificial intelligence firm called WattTime is going to use satellite imagery to precisely track the air pollution (including carbon emissions) coming out of every single power plant in the world, in real time. And it’s going to make the data public.

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• Emerging tech
• Satellites