Sustainability pioneer from Budapest

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Réka Tóth, 28, sits in ASCHAN café Helsinki, and fills our booth with laughter. “Most people went to Valencia! But to me this project sounded so appealing that I was not concerned about the weather,” she smirks. Réka is in Helsinki as part of the Climate-KIC Pioneers into Practice programme. She has travelled all the way from Hungary to spend a month analysing smart city indexes and sustainability issues in Kalasatama, especially the new Sompasaari area.

Flow Talks workshop: Hyper-Connected City

14 August 2015 at 14:45 – 18:00, Suvilahti, Helsinki As part of Flow Talks and Flow festival 2015, Smart Kalasatama, Forum Virium Helsinki and Naked Approach are organising a workshop discussing Hyper-Connected Cities.

Helsinki ICT programme 2015-2017: Users engaged in the digital service development

The City of Helsinki ICT programme aims to make the most of information technology to aid citizens and city development. The ICT programme focuses on several themes, among which are open city development, open innovation, open data and open source code. It states, for example: Developers will be offered open innovation platforms, new open data interfaces and developer community meet-ups (e.g. Smart Kalasatama, Helsinki Region Infoshare, 6Aika Open Data spearhead project, Helsinki Loves Developers activities). Information about city services and decision making will be made more accessible to everyone online. The transparency of city operations will be enhanced by improving the>>>