5 research outputs found
An Innovative, Open, Interoperable Citizen Engagement Cloud Platform for Smart Government and Users' Interaction
This paper introduces an open, interoperable, and cloud-computing-based
citizen engagement platform for the management of administrative processes of
public administrations, which also increases the engagement of citizens. The
citizen engagement platform is the outcome of a 3-year Italian national project
called PRISMA (Interoperable cloud platforms for smart government). The aim of
the project is to constitute a new model of digital ecosystem that can support
and enable new methods of interaction among public administrations, citizens,
companies, and other stakeholders surrounding cities. The platform has been
defined by the media as a flexible (enable the addition of any kind of
application or service) and open (enable access to open services) Italian
"cloud" that allows public administrations to access to a vast knowledge base
represented as linked open data to be reused by a stakeholder community with
the aim of developing new applications ("Cloud Apps") tailored to the specific
needs of citizens. The platform has been used by Catania and Syracuse
municipalities, two of the main cities of southern Italy, located in the
Sicilian region. The fully adoption of the platform is rapidly spreading around
the whole region (local developers have already used available application
programming interfaces (APIs) to create additional services for citizens and
administrations) to such an extent that other provinces of Sicily and Italy in
general expressed their interest for its usage. The platform is available
online and, as mentioned above, is open source and provides APIs for full
exploitation.Comment: 23 pages, 7 figures, journal pape
Smart cities: event everywhere
The research attempts to provide a big picture from the literature through a Systematic Literature Review about the smart city and the existing standards topics for interchanging data through Smart City Apps. Additionally a prototype was created to analyze one of the standards found in the SL
Smart cities: event everywhere
The research attempts to provide a big picture from the literature through a Systematic Literature Review about the smart city and the existing standards topics for interchanging data through Smart City Apps. Additionally a prototype was created to analyze one of the standards found in the SL
Setting the course of emergency vehicle routing using Geolinked open data for the municipality of Catania
Linked Open Data (LOD) has gained significant momentum over the past years as a best practice of promoting the sharing and publication of structured data on the semantic Web. Currently LOD is reaching significant adoption also in Public Administrations (PAs), where it is often required to be connected to existing platforms, such as GIS-based data management systems. Bearing on previous experience with the pioneering data. cnr. it, through Semantic Scout, as well as the Agency for Digital Italy recommendations for LOD in Italian PA, we are working on the extraction, publication, and exploitation of data from the Geographic Information System of the Municipality of Catania, referred to as SIT ("Sistema Informativo Territoriale"). The goal is to boost the metropolis towards the route of a modern Smart City by providing prototype integrated solutions supporting transport, public health, urban decor, and social services, to improve urban life. In particular a mobile application focused on real-time road traffic and public transport management is currently under development to support sustainable mobility and, especially, to aid the response to urban emergencies, from small accidents to more serious disasters. This paper describes the results and lessons learnt from the first work campaign, aiming at analyzing, reengineering, linking, and formalizing the Shape-based geo-data from the SIT