Online Magazine CrowdCity looking for authors interested in smart city issues

The online magazine CrowdCity is looking for authors to participate in an online smart city platform. The magazine is centered around innovative and intelligent ideas to envision urban spaces of the future. Interested writers can register an author's account at www.crowdcity.com.

CrowdCity was initiated in 2012 by a group of urban enthusiasts at cyLEDGE Media after their home city Vienna was awarded Top 1 Smart City worldwide by Co.Exist magazine. The platform serves as an information hub for smart city topics with a focus on Vienna to promote innovation in digital interfaces of cities and their citizens. To further broaden and inspire future urban development, CrowdCity is now looking for authors who want to get involved and help find inspiring ideas for smart cities across the globe.

It is estimated that 70% of the world's population will live in cities by 2050. Smart Cities use information and communication technologies (ICT) to develop efficient strategies that counter the effects of overpopulation. The goal is to search for innovative ideas for future cities, that connect citizens, communities, business and governmental entities. The digital interfaces of the city are being developed in many platforms and think tanks across the globe. Similar to other magazines and online resources for smart cities, such as "The Urban Times” or “The Proto City”, CrowdCity serves as an platform for urban development to create and aggregate new, as well as established content with the help of the crowd.

Interested writers can get involved by registering an author's account at www.crowdcity.com. The platform is open to everyone, but all articles submitted will be checked by CrowdCity editors to comply to the magazine's quality guidelines before being released on the website.

Citizen participation, including (but not limited to) e-government solutions, has gained enormous importance in the 21st century. Using the energy of the crowd is one of the best ways to gain traction for new ideas and innovative urban solutions. Therefore, citizen journalism, also known as participatory or democratic journalism is playing an active role in today's online world, where people across the globe carry ideas together to create a dialogue space for smarter cities.

About CrowdCity
CrowdCity was launched to create a new kind of conversation about Smart Cities. The Online Magazine features news articles and multimedia content to showcase innovations, critical analysis and local expertise. CrowdCity content is completely user-generated. Citizens from across the globe submit their content to be edited and published for free. The goal is to increase understanding of smart cities and to encourage ideas and different views by bringing together the crowd - opinion leaders, urban advocates, journalists, bloggers and everyday people. What's emerging is a complex picture and a dialogue on urban issues in the future city.

Social Media Channels:
Facebook.com/CrowdCity
Twitter.com/CrowdCity
Pinterest.com/CrowdCity

About cyLEDGE Media GmbH
cyLEDGE Media is an online agency based in Vienna, Austria. The company was founded in 2006 to develop and design the digital interfaces of the future. In addition to working for major clients, such as the city of Vienna or Red Bull, cyLEDGE Media has created several own products to showcase their expertise. These include cyteMAP (www.cytemap.com), a powerful tool for website analysis and CowCrowd (www.cowcrowd.com), where people can engrave their Facebook friends on wearable wooden tags.

CowCrowd
c/o cyLEDGE Media GmbH
Press contact: Fridolin Pöschl
Schottenfeldgasse 70
1070 Wien
+43 1 7102238
press@crowdcity.com

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