Listing | Challenge.gov riots - Affordable wireless IoT microcontrollers and sensors by Riots Instruments Inc. Riots™ utilizes an innovative combination of plug-and-play hardware, software and cloud-based technology to create smart, energy efficient homes and businesses of the twenty-first century. Please contact us if you have any questions regarding which reward will best suit your needs! The product configuration (e.g., Riots Gyro™, Riots Light™, Riots Air™) will be able to be selected at the end of the campaign. It all began when our propellerhead, Samuli, fearlessly went to battle against the jumble of wires connecting and controlling his things. Samuli wondered: Is there a way to control and monitor our environment and devices remotely with a cost effective, minimalistic, and practical solution? The Riots Platform™ consists of the Riots Mama™ internet gateway and a variety of Riots Babies™ network nodes (e.g., Riots Gyro™, Riots Light™, Riots Air™). In addition to secure monitoring and control, Riots Cloud™ supports remote development, over-the-air updates and debugging. Riots. Examples:
Data.gov CaptoGlove. Wearable Gaming, VR, AR, PC & Mobile Controller. by CaptoGlove LLC Risks and challenges CaptoGlove has been under development for over 5 years by a tremendous team of diverse professionals including: Virtual Reality Experts, IT Developers, Hardware Engineers, Senior Executives, and Operations Managers. This collective expertise has built a reliable product and company. We have planned and procured production agreements from component suppliers to manufacturers (Reusch for instance). Software is inherently trickier. A single bug can wreak havoc on even a stable library and cause disruption. By leveraging research, we have been able to create comprehensive manufacturing plan for the proper roll-out of CaptoGloves needed in left/right and large or medium sizes. We won't promise you amazing discounts or features that are only possible in fantasy. Lastly, as previously stated, due to manufacturing constraints, only right-hand in size Large will be received by One CaptoGlove Super Early Bird & Early Bird backers in May.
Open Data in European cities - Portail européen de données More and more European Union Member States are recognising the potential value of Open Data and are acting upon it. Open Data portals are in place, increasingly backed by solid Open Data policies. But it is not only the national level that matters. For a successful national Open Data initiative, the whole publication chain should be taken into account. A new European Data Portal analytical report investigates Open Data initiatives in eight medium-sized European cities, after having analysed Open Data initiatives in Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Copenhagen, London, Paris, Stockholm and Vienna in a previous report, published in June 2016. The cities differ with regards to data available on their portal and portal features. Overall, this report shows that not only Europe’s most prominent cities like Barcelona and Paris - as featured in the first report - are maturing on their Open Data journey, but that also more medium-sized cities are taking bold steps on their Open Data journey.
MUWI: The Ultra Compact Dolly for Smartphones & Cameras by MUWI Risks and challenges We know very well how to prepare for the product development process and how to deal with problems that may occur in any stage. We made our business plan perfectly. Designing, prototyping, and testing were finally finished after many MUWI iterations. However, developing an innovative product always carries risks in the production stage that might not be foreseeable. We’ve worked really hard and are still pushing harder and harder. Learn about accountability on Kickstarter Open Data Portal Beta Encourages Visitors to 'Analyze Boston' Boston has launched a beta version of a new citywide open data platform. This project, dubbed Analyze Boston, is a work in progress, and city officials said in a statement that they hope the now-online preview will “spark conversation and get feedback” leading up to its official release this spring. The project's goal is to upgrade and enhance Boston’s current open data portal, on which Mayor Marty Walsh has long encouraged agencies to publish their data sets. On the new site, visitors can now search through all of Boston’s open data sets, interacting with that data through preview, filter and visualization tools. Developers emphasized five key differences between the beta and the existing portal it seeks to improve upon: Consolidation: Boston’s open data sets are currently available on two sites, one for maps and one for everything else. The beta and the current data portal will exist simultaneously as the city moves toward the official launch.
Tinkamo | Smart Building Blocks by Tinkamo Tinkamo is a set of wireless programmable smart building blocks that teach your children to learn how to code and unleash their potentials to invent ! They are as cute as candies and it is as easy as ABC. Have LEGO® collections at home? Let’s bring them to life! All it takes is 15 minutes and endless imagination. Tinkamo is compatible with LEGO® and LEGO® Technic. Kids think differently about their world. With Tinkamo’s wireless connectivity and super easy drag'n'drop coding app, kids can see instant results. To get add-ons, just add the price ($19 for each) to your original pledge, we will ask you for details when our project ends. Tinkamo has lowered the age of maker and coding education to 5, before kids can use Arduino. Although Tinkamo team has over 10 years of experience of product research and development, manufacturing, and education, building an electronic product is always a big challenge. Shenzhen is the world factory with no question.
A better open data portal - City of San Diego Open Data Portal We are excited - and somewhat exhausted - to present to San Diegans a new and improved Open Data portal today. The portal has a fresh look, but more importantly, we rebuilt the technology behind the portal and upgraded our workflow for keeping data up-to-date. Just yesterday We initially launched our data portal by buying a ready-made portal product from a company. But we’ve always had a long-term vision for open data that relied on high-tech strategies. Ready-made portal products are more geared toward a manual update process, so when we started working to automate data updates late last year, our automation solution didn’t work as well with our portal product as we had hoped. Normally, a client uploads a dataset to its cloud, and then that dataset is available for download, for preview in the browser, and through its data API. But we were not hosting our data in the cloud service our portal provider offered. Although a ready-made portal product is convenient, it is also expensive. Today
40 Brilliant Open Data Projects (And How They're Redefining Smart Cities) — CARTO Blog In honor of New York City’s Open Data Week 2017 we’ve compiled a resource featuring 40 smart, data-driven projects reminding us of open data’s value. The rate of urban migration around the world is rising at an alarming rate. Experts estimate that 70 percent of the world’s population (more than six billion people!) will reside in urban areas by 2050. In response, government officials are investing in data sharing technologies to discover ways to provide public services more efficiently. This form of city planning has invariably been described as “smart”, “intelligent”, “responsive”, “resilient”, and, more recent, “senseable”. We’ve assembled the list below both to recognize these accomplishments and promote more work with open data! Building an open data portal is expensive, and returns on this investment can be difficult to measure. Dat If you’re looking to get started with open data, then Dat is the place to start! Transparency and Accountability Performance Management Civic Engagement
The Cost(s) of Geospatial Open Data - Johnson - 2017 - Transactions in GIS Abstract The provision of open data by governments at all levels has rapidly increased over recent years. Given that one of the dominant motivations for the provision of open data is to generate ‘value’, both economic and civic, there are valid concerns over the costs incurred in this pursuit. Typically, costs of open data are framed as internal to the data providing government. Building on the strong history of GIScience research on data provision via spatial data infrastructures, this article considers both the direct and indirect costs of open data provision, framing four main areas of indirect costs: citizen participation challenges, uneven provision across geography and user types, subsidy of private sector activities, and the creation of inroads for corporate influence on government. These areas of indirect cost lead to the development of critical questions, including constituency, purpose, enablement, protection, and priorities. 3.2 Uneven Geographies of Open Data Provision
Contests as innovation policy instruments: Lessons from the US federal agencies' experience - ScienceDirect Isabelle Liotard is associate professor at the University Paris 13 (CEPN Sorbonne Paris Cité), having the Habilitation. She is interested in network economy, intellectual property rights (IPR) and Internet platforms. She analyses more specifically firms' strategies regarding patents. Valérie Revest is an associate professor in Finance and Economics, having the Habilitation, at the University of Lyon 2, research center: TRIANGLE.
Philanthropy and innovation - how could open data and artificial intelligence help funders do better? Philanthropic foundations are not always the best places for innovation. They can be risk averse, bureaucratic, hierarchical, and cliquey. Some of the biggest ones are the most secretive. But a significant minority of funders are working to open things up, to adopt new methods and act in the more accountable ways they would want their grant recipients to. A debate is beginning to gather steam about everything from new tools aimed at a mass market - like AI-based philanthropic advice, or fund-raising tools (like the Arthritis Research UK partnership with Microsoft on using AI to target pop-ups to potential donors). Here I suggest potential innovations that could transform how the bigger funders - and we at Nesta - might work in the future. Open data as the default The first step is to move further towards open data as the default. For all of this we need more energetic action - and more engagement from boards to ensure that the data really helps them answer the questions that matter.
Data Transparency 2017 — Data Foundation Tuesday, September 26th Data Transparency 2017 is Washington's largest open data event, bringing together government leaders, transparency advocates, and the technology industry to explore how technology can transform government, compliance, and the private sector. Data Transparency 2017 is our fifth annual flagship open data policy conference. Join on September 26 in Washington, DC. Three main areas: Deploying government data for public good, where recent reforms like the DATA Act are creating new resources to improve policymaking and bring transparency.Modernizing compliance data for efficiency and effectiveness. Last year’s open data policy conference, Data Transparency 2016, hosted the first-ever White House Open Data Innovation Summit.