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Advancing DTPR as Public Infrastructure: Helpful Places and Superbloom Begin a New Chapter

Advancing DTPR as Public Infrastructure: Helpful Places and Superbloom Begin a New Chapter

Helpful Places and Superbloom are excited to team up in order to grow the open-source ecosystem around Digital Trust for Places & Routines (DTPR).
Building Community Trust from the Start: Commentary on a US Government Accountability Office Report

Building Community Trust from the Start: Commentary on a US Government Accountability Office Report

DTPR Featured by the American Planning Association

DTPR Featured by the American Planning Association

The American Planning Association has released a publication highlighting how DTPR can help planners communicate data and technology practices to build community trust.
Smart City Technology Transparency: 5 Years of DTPR Learnings and What's Next

Smart City Technology Transparency: 5 Years of DTPR Learnings and What's Next

Advancing the Helpful Places Platform and the DTPR Open-Source Standard

Advancing the Helpful Places Platform and the DTPR Open-Source Standard

The Helpful Places Platform continued to evolve in 2024 as the leading infrastructure for bringing transparency to the deployment of digital technologies in public spaces.
How Cities and Place Managers Around the World Are Prioritizing Technology Transparency and Legibility

How Cities and Place Managers Around the World Are Prioritizing Technology Transparency and Legibility

Municipal governments and place management organizations across the globe are committed to fostering a more transparent and participatory approach to deploying technology in public spaces.
Digital Trust for Places and Routines (DTPR) Releases New and Updated Guides, Resources, and Governance

Digital Trust for Places and Routines (DTPR) Releases New and Updated Guides, Resources, and Governance

Helpful Places is excited to officially release a set of updated open-source resources to make DTPR easier to implement.
Unveiling NYC’s invisible digital city: leading community walking tours as part of NYC’s Open Data Week 2024

Unveiling NYC’s invisible digital city: leading community walking tours as part of NYC’s Open Data Week 2024

To help celebrate New York City’s Open Data Week, Asher Lipman and Adrienne Schmoeker from Helpful Places led two walking tours through Downtown Brooklyn’s business improvement district corridor and the historic neighbourhood of the East Village in Manhattan.
US DTPR pilot implementations planned in Miami, Charlotte and West Palm Beach in 2023 as part of the Knight Community DTPR Program

US DTPR pilot implementations planned in Miami, Charlotte and West Palm Beach in 2023 as part of the Knight Community DTPR Program

Helpful Places is proud to add three new partnerships to their growing list of communities working to build digital trust with DTPR.
Helpful Places releases 2022 DTPR City Cohort Program Report

Helpful Places releases 2022 DTPR City Cohort Program Report

Nearly one year ago today, Helpful Places announced our inaugural 2022 DTPR City Cohort — a first-time program aimed at enabling four cities to deploy DTPR, learn from one another in the process and identify ways to improve the DTPR standard.
First Australian Deployment of DTPR Launches

First Australian Deployment of DTPR Launches

The Digital Trust for Places and Routines (DTPR) standard is being piloted at Sydney Olympic Park
DTPR is making the rounds! From SXSW in Austin to MozFest

DTPR is making the rounds! From SXSW in Austin to MozFest

March 2023: in like a lion and out like a lamb? It sure feels like a whirlwind of a month so far and we’re not done yet — more exciting news to share before April…stay tuned!
DTPR deployments launch in Boston and Washington, DC

DTPR deployments launch in Boston and Washington, DC

Two cities in the US are now piloting the Digital Trust for Places and Routines standard
First European deployment of DTPR launches

First European deployment of DTPR launches

The Angers Loire Metropolitan Region in France starts piloting the Digital Trust for Places and Routines (DTPR) standard

2022 DTPR City Cohort Underway

The first of our open learning blog posts, with highlights from our initial workshops guiding cohort participants through deploying DTPR
Announcing the Launch of the 2022 DTPR City Cohort

Announcing the Launch of the 2022 DTPR City Cohort

Four communities are piloting the DTPR standard to help residents understand and interact with smart technologies installed in their…