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FIWARE in 2015: A Year of Products, Partnerships and Platforms
As the sun sets on the 2015 year, we celebrate and give thanks to everyone who has contributed to making the FIWARE community what it is today. This year has been about building products, forging new partnerships and stabilizing our platform,...
Crossing The Digital Divide: Outbarriers Creates Apps for All
Outbarriers, FIWARE Smart Society Challenge Award winners in 2014, have now launched an app aimed at supporting blind and visually impaired travelers and residents explore a city. Lauded as a “TripAdvisor for the blind”, the first...
#MYFIWARESTORY: A SMART CITIES STORY
Cities are almost as old as society itself, their birth being surrounded by mysteries and legends such as the one of Romulus and Remus and the foundation of Rome. Since then, since the times of Roman urbanism, our urban environments have changed...
#myFIWAREstory: the story of AEInnova
The team of AEInnova was expecting to spend the 13th of November 2015 like the previous days, facing the challenges that any entrepreneurial initiative brings, especially in the R&D field. However, everything changed when they got to know...
Apps Speak Louder Than Words
It is hardly possible to remember when the word “smart” was first used to describe a service, or some kind of technology, or a city. Shortly after we heard someone speak about smartphones for the first time, we were speaking of smart...
Dutch cities collaborate on Open and Agile Smart Cities
Amersfoort – Six Dutch cities signed the Open & Agile Smart Cities (OASC) letter of intent to join an initiative that will create smart cities based on the needs of cities and communities. Amersfoort, Amsterdam, Eindhoven, Enschede,...
Opening the Data Pipeline for Smart Services – European Data Portal
Data is the fuel for any smart service. So a new partnership between FIWARE and the European Data Portal is instrumental in opening a fountain of open data sources from European cities and nations able to be used in the design and delivery of...
Porto, a City that Has Become a Real-time Guide
Imagine walking or driving through a city and the city itself tells you which trendy spots to check out, where to park your car in that moment, or which areas to avoid because of air quality or traffic congestion. In Porto, Portugal, this vision...
Interest in FIWARE Platform Accelerates With Uptake by Global City Team Challenge
Following FIWARE’s participation at Global City Team Challenge workshops in New York last week, a new wave of projects are being designed by cities around the world to make use of the FIWARE platform. The Global City Team Challenge - being led...