EU Datathon 2022 teams behind the apps: Meet Green Land Dashboard for
Cities
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With the temperature rising and cities growing bigger, green spaces
are crucial for our well-being. Competing in the ‘European Green
Deal’ challenge, Green Land Dashboard for Cities analyses and
visualises the evolution of green areas to support cities, regional
governments and non-governmental organisations in making cities more
liveable and sustainable. Representing the team behind this app,
Lorenzo Sanna and Andrea Cruciani joined us for a short interview in
which we talked about the app, why they decided to participate in the
EU Datathon and what makes their app special. 

 

HOW DID YOU COME UP WITH THE IDEA FOR THIS APP?

The Green Land Dashboard for Cities results from an idea generated
within WiseTown [https://wise.town/en/], during a creative phase of
identifying new city tools to support decision-makers in creating a
more liveable, green and sustainable urban environment. We wanted to
develop a solution capable of enhancing the open data generated by
institutions: this involved the ability to aggregate, organise and
report data in the form of processed information for meaningful
strategic choices. That led us to the creation of the Green Land
Dashboard for Cities, taking the monitoring of green areas in the city
as a reference point. Properly managing city green areas is the best
way to improve people’s serenity and helps mitigate the increasingly
high temperatures in our cities. 

 

WHY DID YOU DECIDE TO TAKE PART IN THE EU DATATHON?  

At WiseTown [https://wise.town/en/], we believe technological
innovation is the only genuinely impactful way to transform our
cities, making them inclusive, sustainable, safe and citizen-friendly
places. That’s why we understand the importance of data and why we
strongly believe in empowering open data. The EU Datathon initiative,
in particular challenge number 1, ‘A European Green Deal’, has two
fundamental elements for the development of our new solutions: the
focus on sustainability and the use of open data. In addition, we were
already familiar with the initiative and were highly stimulated by the
idea of competing with other top international digital innovators on
such an important stage. Today we can only be proud to have been
selected as Datathon finalists. 

 

WHAT MAKES YOUR APP SPECIAL?

The Green Land Dashboard for Cities is available in the cloud and can
be easily activated by any European city that wants to use open data
as a tool for a conscious decision-making process. Through the app, it
is possible to generate aggregated information from different sources
such as open data, satellite data and statistical data – and then
visualise it on a map. We are happy to have developed a tool that
addresses the need to optimise resources and makes the administration
of European cities more efficient.

 

To find out more about the Green Land Dashboard for Cities team, watch
this 1-minute video. [https://youtu.be/9OqIQ0JJ0kU] 

Curious to learn more? Discover the teams and the apps on the EU
Datathon website [https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eudatathon], watch their
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Publication Date/Time
2022-09-13T07:07:16+00:00
Exploring the evolution of green areas to make cities more liveable