“During moments of both technology disruption and opportunity, open development is critical for enabling interoperability and speeding adoption,” said Zemlin. The Linux Foundation has launched the Urban Computing Foundation , a platform to support the development of open source software for use in urban planning . The goal is to ensure interoperability and speed the adoption of technologies addressing urban issues like civil engineering , multimodal transport and infrastructure and develop safe smart cities . Uber , Facebook , Google , Here Technologies , IBM and the University of California San Diego are among the first participants and Uber ’s no - code big data geospatial analysis tool Kepler.gl , used by firms including Airbnb and Atkins Global , will be the foundation ’s first project .
The Linux Foundation has launched the Urban Computing Foundation , a platform to support the development of open source software for use in urban planning . The goal is to ensure interoperability and speed the adoption of technologies addressing urban issues like civil engineering , multimodal transport and infrastructure and develop safe smart cities . Uber , Facebook , Google , Here Technologies , IBM and the University of California San Diego are among the first participants and Uber ’s no - code big data geospatial analysis tool Kepler.gl , used by firms including Airbnb and Atkins Global , will be the foundation ’s first project .