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A travers un exemple, retraçons quelques innovations du domaine des transports

As we move rapidly towards launching Citizinvestor.com to the world next month, we wanted to take a moment to share with you what you can expect to see from the platform. We are building a new way to fund local government projects that is better for citizens and governments alike.

The researchers concluded that the pedometer was an effective motivator for increasing the amount of time seniors spend exercising. They speculated that it provided a visual monitor which gave positive feedback as the pedometer clearly showed seniors how simple changes in habits can add up to large changes in total daily/weekly steps. Regardless of the intervention type, the improved exercise regimen persisted for at least one year from the start of the program.

A project exploring openness in city development. Cities are where creativity and culture flourish. They are home to many of our proudest achievements - great libraries and hospitals, schools and parks, art and culture. Cities are synonymous with civilisation, civic governance and progress. The diversity, bustle and trade of civic life makes cities dynamic, surprising and exciting. But cities are arguably where we are also at our worst. It is in cities that our biggest challenges are to be faced - inequality, poverty, crime, violence, environmental degradation, exploitation, corruption. These all thrive in cities as much as learning and culture. In many modern cities the good and the bad live alongside one another, as neighbours. Cities encourage mass innovation as people learn new habits from one another, observing what their fellow citizens are doing. Everything propagates faster in cities: fashion, ideas, disease.

(New York, New York, 8 June 2012) - The Intelligent Community Forum (ICF) today named Riverside, California, USA as the world's Intelligent Community of the Year 2012 during its annual awards ceremony at Steiner Film Studios in Brooklyn, New York, USA. Riverside, which has appeared among the Top Seven Intelligent Communities for two years in a row, was represented by a delegation led by Mayor Ron Loveridge, as well as the city's CIO Steve Reneker and Assistant City Manager Deanna Lorson. The co-founders of ICF - Louis A. Zacharilla, John G. Jung and Robert A. Bell - presented the award to Riverside, which succeeds Eindhoven, Netherlands, the 2011 recipient. 

Multicity a été lancé depuis quelques années en proposant dès le départ des solutions multimodales de transports et notamment un assistant numérique permettant d'avoir des informations (temps, coût) pour relier deux points. Multicity permet également d'acheter les titres de transports directement, concurrençant d'une certaine façon Voyage SNCF. 

Now that we feasibly can embed electronics in nearly any object, from cars to clothing to furniture to appliances to wristbands, and connect them via wireless signals to the World Wide Web, we have created an Internet of Things. In this world, our daily interactions with everyday objects will leave a data trail in the same way that our online activities already do; you become the person who spends three hours a day on Facebook and whose toaster knows that you like your bagel lightly browned. With the Internet of Things, we are always and often unwittingly connected to the Web, which brings clear benefits of efficiency and personalization. But we are also granting to our technologies new powers to persuade or compel us to behave in certain ways.