ICING (Innovative Cities for the Next Generation) proposes to research concepts of e-Government based on a multimodal, multi-access approach to a ‘thin-skinned City’ that is sensitive to the citizen and to the environment, using mobile devices, universal access gateways, social software and environmental sensors. The intelligent infrastructure will enable a Public Administration Services layer and a Communities layer. Communities will be able to interact with the infrastructure to get services created by the administration, and create their own information-based services.
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This is a 2 minutes animation video explaining the Urban Mediator concept through scenarios grounded in ethnographic results.
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UM Stage 1 is an implementation prototype of the Urban Mediator concept and includes the basic functionality envisioned for Urban Mediator (social software, locative technologies and interactive maps), and provides the background into which user testing and development, already started in 2006, will continue throughout 2007 in the Arabianranta district in Helsinki.
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