Short biography: Dr. Helberger specializes in the regulation of converging information and communications markets. Focus points of her research are the interface between technique and information law, user rights and the changing role of the user in information law and policy. Natali has conducted research for the European Commission, the European Parliament, the Council of Europe and national ...

The continuous growth of social networks and the active use of social media services result in massive amounts of user-generated data. More and more people worldwide report and distribute up-to-date information about almost any topic. Therefore, we argue that this kind of data is a good basis to observe ongoing situations in cities as well as related situations from outside about these cities i...

OWL ontologies are complex computational artifacts that are intimately connected with conceptual information and with application issues that are not easily explicable in the context of an OWL document. In this paper, drawing inspiration from literate programming and active essays, I propose a new form of narratively oriented, interactive OWL document. The basic technique has been applied to th...

Abstract Purpose The goal of this paper is to examine the usage information technologies and media in two European case studies – Berlin Warsaw. Findings from research can be used create urban policies infrastructure design, based on different strategies cities. Warsaw have taken paths implementing smart city concept, adapting idea their economic, historical, social realities. Media are underst...

Over the past several years, as cities in the United States have faced increasing fiscal pressures, there has been a reinvigorated interest in the promise of smart cities, intelligent cities, digital cities, open source cities and media cities, which advocate the use of digital technologies to make cities more efficient, productive, innovative and attractive. However, the appropriation and use ...