From the URENIO webpage:
Intelligent Buildings International (a journal of Taylor & Francis) just published the Special Issue “From Intelligent to Smart Cities” edited by Mark Deakin and Husam Al Waer. The issue includes an Editorial and five papers offering a coherent and critical view about current developments in the field of intelligent […]
Despite David Cameron protests, social networks have played multiple roles in the whole UK riot story. For example, crowdmaps have been created to gather real-time information about ongoing events and help the post-riot cleanup. Blogs too have helped the communities for transportation and street cleaning. Even the Met Police had created a Flickr webpage […]
The waste management crisis in Naples, Italy, is peaking again. About two thousands tons of waste lie in the streets, since landfills are overfilled and nobody knows where to put the mixed solid waste of a two-million people urban area. Waste piles are often set on fire, putting the citizens’ and the environment’s health at […]
In our latest post, we argued that a social network is NOT a wise crowd unless it comprises an efficient method to rate information and information sources in order to select good from bad user generated content. Well, it seems to be a hot topics: after Pachube, Ushahidi staff too is receiving
According to a widely accepted view, the current ICT trend will enhance the wisdom of crowds and challenge the role of experts. For instance, projects like Wikipedia already outperform traditional knowledge systems based on specialists’ effort. Still, this scenario encounters some residual resistance.
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