Smart Citizen Technology

03/11/2025

When Bluesky CEO Jay Graber walked on stage at SXSW 2025 for her keynote discussion, she wore a large black T-shirt.

What might look like your average black T-shirt is a subtle, yet clear swipe at Mark Zuckerberg, a CEO who represents everything that Bluesky is trying to work against as an open source social network.

Graber’s shirt — which directly copies the style of a shirt that Zuckerberg wore onstage recently — says Mundus sine caesaribus. Or, “a world without Caesars.”

Read more from Amanda Silberling on Graber's T-shirt here: https://tcrn.ch/4iyyGEG

03/10/2025

04/05/2023

The wrong way to address an mfa issue....

05/04/2016

Smart Citizens...
http://www.zdnet.com/article/tech-girls-in-mumbai/?tag=nl.e232&s_cid=e232&ttag=e232&ftag=TRE6a12a91

After a fire destroyed this community, tech-savvy young women are starting to rebuild.

11/11/2015

Citizens connecting in smart cities...

Driven by a common interest to build smart and liveable cities, Singapore and Denmark exchanged ideas on smart city solutions. Topics discussed included the harnessing of big data, intelligent mobility, smart energy management and urban planning.

10/31/2015

How bad data can drive bad public policy.

It’s one thing to say “that politician closed that firehouse.” It’s another to say “science closed that firehouse.” Game 2 of the 1977 World Series was a bit of a blowout, with the Los Angeles Dodg…

08/13/2014

Smart technology can help to drive this change in urban transportation. Providing more efficient means to navigate our cities translates into energy savings and a happier population.

The International Energy Agency has released a report that says that global travel will double by the year 2050 and that countries need to make serious changes to their policies to address more congestion on the roads.