Helpful Places

We're a mission-driven startup advancing greater transparency and civic dialogue on the use of digital technology in the built environment.

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Learn from 4 cities who deployed #DTPR in 2022 as a part of our 2022 DTPR City Cohort Program! We’re announcing the release of a report summarizing the program and learnings from this inaugural initiative: https://t.co/23wbg0R5OQ

[Bernardo Rivera Muñozcano @bern_rm]

Tech can reshape the urban experience, and foster healthier social interactions. These communities experimenting with #DTPR are laying the foundation for community-based deployment of tech in the public realm.

[Helpful Places @HelpfulPlaces]

Digital Trust for Places and Routines (DTPR) is an open source standard designed to increase transparency, legibility and accountability for digital technology in public places. Learn more: https://t.co/HGhT88Ga9k

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Thanks to support from @Knightfdn ✨Helpful Places is bringing #DTPR to @theunderlinemia @CLTgov @westpalmbch in 2023! Learn more in our public announcement: https://t.co/ovK6NGCyld #Community #Data #Transparency #Technology #PublicSpaces #CivicTech

[Cities Today @Cities_Today]

Can signage build trust in how cities use #technology and #data?

“People really liked the look of the icons; the visual style is attractive to people and people prefer them to other kinds of city messaging.” - Yo Deshpande, @CityOfBoston

👉 https://t.co/D6ZFn1KmeP

#innovation

[Context News @ContextNewsroom]

Can transparency make citizens more comfortable with data-gathering in public spaces?

🏢 A pilot in U.S. cities seeks to find out. https://t.co/IHTgMYDveB

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Learn more about our work implementing DTPR in France, Canada and the US - our City Cohort Report is now available on the @wef Urban Transformation Hub: https://t.co/nhVvizXHHf

#data #technology #transparency #trust #opensource

[Helpful Places @HelpfulPlaces]

⚡️Check out #DTPR (Digital Trust for Places and Routines) in the news! 📰Covered recently in @ContextNewsroom @thomsonreuters and @Cities_Today Highlights from partners who implemented DTPR in @LongBeachCity @CityOfBoston @DDOTDC @townofinnisfil in 2022

#community #dtpr

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Cities Today: Can signage build trust in how cities use technology and data? https://t.co/UblNZRZrU8

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Our President and Co-Founder @jackiewtlu is in #Montreal today speaking on "The Digitalisation of Urban Management", stop by to say hello 👋 and learn more about #DTPR https://t.co/HGhT88Ga9k
https://t.co/m0SkKnPJ5y

[Helpful Places @HelpfulPlaces]

We are excited to share that #DTPR continues on with an active deployment at @sydolympicpark and that there are additional implementations in Europe and the United States planned for this year. Get in touch with us at https://t.co/RIPfCZenrA if you’d like to learn more!

[Helpful Places @HelpfulPlaces]

Learn from 4 cities who deployed #DTPR in 2022 as a part of our 2022 DTPR City Cohort Program! We’re announcing the release of a report summarizing the program and learnings from this inaugural initiative: https://t.co/23wbg0R5OQ

[Helpful Places @HelpfulPlaces]

Congratulations to @AngersMetropole @CityOfBoston @DDOTDC @townofinnisfil @Civiteo_CS for having completed this program and successfully deployed #DTPR in your communities. Thank you for undertaking this initiative with us and for engaging with your peer cities!

[Helpful Places @HelpfulPlaces]

Thrilled to be working with @AngersMetropole @Civiteo_CS to bring #DTPR to Angers in France! "Angers is the only European city to have integrated an international program of transparency on connected devices in public space." #DTPR #Cities 🇫🇷 🇪��

[Jacques Priol @jacquespriol]

Un excellent article @Lagazettefr sur l’expérimentation en cours à @AngersMetropole : comment rendre transparent pour les citoyens le déploiement des outils #data de la #smartcity.

🇪🇺 Une expérience unique en Europe et un standard ouvert en test.

👉🏻 https://t.co/sW2yggD4XW

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Last week the Helpful Places team @jackiewtlu Jason Farra, @_pichot, @frecklesforgood presented some learnings from our 2022 pilots of #DTPR @mozillafestival - icymi check out the recording 👇
https://t.co/9OfVkq4Q2y #MozFest23 #Cities #Community #Transparency

[Helpful Places @HelpfulPlaces]

Excited about what is next for #DTPR! Loving all the great questions from attendees here at #MozFest #opensource #community #cities #transparency #technology

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Live at #MozFest! @jackiewtlu sharing how #DTPR supported our pilots in the US, Canada & France in 2022. Still time to pop in and catch parts of the session until 12pm ET: https://t.co/kKEulTpVl0 #tech #community #transparency

[Helpful Places @HelpfulPlaces]

Do you know what that camera is doing? Learn more about how #DTPR (https://t.co/40WpyUERQi) worked to de-mystify tech in public spaces across the US, France and Canada in 2022 via our #MozFest session this Friday 03/24 at 11am ET: https://t.co/kKEulTpVl0

[Helpful Places @HelpfulPlaces]

Delighted to share the launch of the latest deployment of #DTPR – and the first in Australia! 🇦🇺

👇 Have a look at how the communication standard is being used to inform and engage people about #tech at @sydolympicpark:

https://t.co/WEfAlZhbGS

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Curious to learn more about what this sign is telling us? Join us at #MozFest Friday 03/24 at 11am ET to see where #DTPR (https://t.co/40WpyUFpFQ) has been implemented in 2022-2023; sign up here: https://t.co/kKEulTpVl0