Open cities - EU project on open data and crowdsourcing

A project funded by the European Commission on open innovation in cities was started in November 2010. Five principle partners and several associated partners are now working on six work packages with topics such as crowdsourcing, living labs, open data and open sensor networks. The project is headed by the ESADE Business school in Barcelona. In an initial survey, the motivation factors and cities' needs when opening data sets were investigated. The strongest motivation factor for cities is more transparency.