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Digital Transparency in the Public Realm

Digital Transparency in the Public Realm

This project seeks to facilitate the co-creation of prototypes that can advance digital transparency and enable agency in the world's public spaces.

https://dtpr.helpfulplaces.com/
Waag

Waag

Nieuwmarkt 4, 1012 CR Amsterdam, Netherlands

Waag operates at the intersection of science, technology and the arts. Our work focuses on emergent technologies as instruments of social change, and is guided by the values of fairness, openness and inclusivity.

https://waag.org/en
Placemeter

Placemeter

425 Broadway, New York, NY, USA

Placemeter is an open urban intelligence platform. Create your account to automatically quantify pedestrian and vehicular movement for a selected area: streets, parks, stores, and much more.

http://web.archive.org/web/20200807001033/http://www.placemeter.com:80/
Soofa

Soofa

24 Thorndike Street, Cambridge, MA 02141

Soofa makes smart, social, and sustainable technologies for cities and communities. We’re revolutionizing the way we communicate in cities.

http://www.soofa.co/
The Smart Enough City

The Smart Enough City

Putting Technology in Its Place to Reclaim Our Urban Future

https://smartenoughcity.mitpress.mit.edu/
FutureAir

FutureAir

Brooklyn Navy Yard, Flushing Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, USA

FutureAir's first product, SAM™, is a Smart Air Manager that senses, manages and improves indoor air quality. SAM™ is designed by a world-renowned industrial designer, Ross Lovegrove. With proprietary sensing technology, SAM™ can identify the presence of toxins in the air, then initiate actions through an API with cloud computing; and, execute appropriate counter-measures to improve indoor air quality, comfort, and energy efficiency.

http://futureair.nyc/
Placelet

Placelet

Cambridge, MA

Placelet is a system for collecting, analyzing and visualizing data on the human experience of urban places.

https://knightfoundation.org/grants/6840
Google Acclima partnership

Google Acclima partnership

Aclima announces a new partnership with Google Earth Outreach to map and better understand outdoor air quality.

https://blog.aclima.io/aclima-and-google-partner-to-map-outdoor-air-quality-with-street-view-vehicles-c33c4245f4c5?gi=e9c1eb40e530
BeeMonitor

BeeMonitor

Snowdonia National Park, United Kingdom

Open source project using Raspberry Pis and sensors to learn about the health of a bee colony by monitoring the temperature and humidity inside and outside the hive over multiple years.

https://beemonitor.org/
CityDigital stormwater management

CityDigital stormwater management

A new cloud-based platform addresses urban flooding problems through green infrastructure performance monitoring.

http://web.archive.org/web/20180225182857/http://www.uilabs.org:80/press/new-cloud-based-platform-addresses-urban-flooding-through-green-infrastructure-performance-monitoring/