Open Source Today
  • About
  • OST Original Articles
  • Top Taipei Official Talks Open Data, Apps, and the Challenges Still to Overcome

    by Ben Pearson
    August 8th, 2014

    The Taipei City government has been looking for methods to improve the lives of the city’s citizenry through the use of open data. The first area they targeted was transportation because they felt this information would have the greatest impact on people’s every day lives. Getting accurate data for the 5,000 buses, 1,000 bust stations, and 500 routes was an immense challenge, especially considering it needed to be accurate within 3 minutes. Once this data was made available the private sector stepped up to begin making useful applications to augment the open data. One app that was built by students at a city University alerts bus riders through their cellphone when the bus is approaching their stop. The city is now looking to expand their open data operations and are currently considering opening up crime data.

    More from Asia Pacific Future Gov

    • Governance
    • Software
    • Technology
  • Also in Governance, Software, Technology

    • OpenCue: A Render Manager for Media and Entertainment
    • Linux Foundation Launches LF Edge to Establish an Open Source Framework for the Edge
    • Neo-AI: Run Machine Learning Models at the Edge
    • EU to Provide Nearly $1M for Open Source Bug Bounty Program

      Related posts:

      1. Is Open Data Living Up to the Hype? One Data Journalist Weighs In
      2. University Course Teach Computer-Human Interaction with Open Hardware and FOSS
      3. Mozilla evangelist talks favorite Firefox OS phone apps and addresses misconceptions
      4. City of Vienna Increasingly Turns to Open Source

    Search

Home Page
Creative Commons License

Open Source Today is licensed under a

Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Theme Design by

Ben Lloyd Pearson