Digital Government
A Live Map of the Manic Ways People Edit Wikipedia
The edits come so quickly from across the globe that you'd best screen-grab this addicting liveWikipedia Recent Changes Map if you want to keep track of them.
Digital Government
How Much Do Automated License Plate Readers Know About You?
System lets law enforcement create a robust picture of your life and what you do.
Emerging Tech
The Payphone of the Future Is Calling
Now is the time to re-create this classic urban infrastructure.
Digital Government
Mapping the Car Crash Near Misses That No One Ever Sees
Data about traffic accidents that nearly happen could help prevent collisions that actually do.
Modernization
Aggregating Cell Phone Data in Search of the 'Pulse of the Planet'
Universal mobility patterns we haven't fully understood before could soon come into view.
Digital Government
Twelve Fresh Ideas for Transforming the Places We Live With Open Data
A few of the 886 proposals from the Knight Foundation's latest open government news challenge.
Digital Government
Who Writes the Wikipedia Entries About Where You Live?
And what if it's not other people who live there?
Digital Government
Mapping the Growth of OpenStreetMap
Looking back over the history of the crowdsourced digital street map, a familiar pattern emerges.
Emerging Tech
The Streetlight of the Future Will Do So Much More Than Light Your Street
It could also catch criminals, broadcast WiFi and... detect meth labs?
Emerging Tech
What the Steamship and the Landline Can Tell Us About the Decline of the Private Car
The broad arc of time reveals the future of transportation.
Modernization
Why Are There No Big Cities with Municipal Broadband Networks?
Publicly owned Internet infrastructure is luring jobs to smaller towns. Should big cities follow their lead?
Digital Government
We've Been Looking at the Spread of Global Pandemics All Wrong
Researchers have been incorporating real datasets on the world air-transport network into models of disease dynamics.
Digital Government
The best open data releases of 2012
Useful tools, maps, and data visualizations all made the list.
Emerging Tech
This house consumes less net energy than an urban studio
Meet the federal government's four-bed, three-bath, two-car garage, 2,700-square foot suburban net-zero home.
Modernization
How crowdsourced crime fighting could do more harm than good
London's new Facewatch app raises important questions
Digital Government
How the new iPhone will expose cities lagging on open data
New Apple mapping app will rely more on open data.
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