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MyNeighbourhood Praised During Data Days

20/02/2014

Members of the Birmingham MyNeighbourhood team joined EurActiv and manned a stand this week at DataDays 2014, a three-day conference held in Gent, Belgium, dedicated to the use of open data to improve city services. Delegates were impressed to see that the MyNeighbourhood initiative had placed citizens and people at the heart of its approach… » read more

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Aalborg, Birmingham, Dissemination, English, EU Citizens & Media, Human Smart Cities, InfoSociety, Lisbon

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MyNeighbourhood

MyNeighbourhood – a project specifically designed to use ICT and social media tools to help re-create a lost sense of the urban neighbourhood. http://my-neighbourhood.eu/

MyNeighbourhood – a project specifically designed to use ICT and social media tools to help re-create a lost sense of the urban neighbourhood. http://my-neighbourhood.eu/

- About:

Across the world, research shows that cities have lost the sense of neighbourhood and community living that used to make people feel more connected to each other and urban environments happier places to live.

MyNeighbourhood aims to create a new and ‘smarter’ conception of the ‘City’ that focuses on people and their well-being rather than just ICT infrastructures alone.

My Neighbourhood will use new technologies and citizen generated data to help recreate a lost sense of neighbourhood that is rooted in local place, common ties and personal interaction.


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