GeoMonday 2016.4 – Are you a smart citizen? Try Smart Beetles

logoSmart cities make use of information technologies to improve performance and quality of urban services, to decrease costs and to optimize resources, besides to involve citizens actively. However, many citizens do not know all the services and advantages that a smart city offers to them. In this work, we make use of a videogame to involve them in different cities and, by playing with real services, increase their knowledge about smart cities.

franciscoFrancisco Ramos is Associate Professor at University Jaume I of Castellon (Spain). He teaches in the Master Erasumus Mundos of Geospatial technologies and is Director of a Master in Mobile Programming and Videogames. Moreover, he is also co-founder of Pixeder.com