The 1st International Open Ubiquitous City Challenge ("UBI Challenge" for short) challenges the global R&D community to design, implement, deploy end evaluate novel applications and services in real-world setting in the City of Oulu, Finland. The goal of the UBI Challenge is to stimulate global research collaboration on urban informatics in a very concrete manner, provide the international R&D community with an opportunity to transfer ideas from labs into real-world urban environment, make the Oulu open urban computing testbed available to the international R&D community and support developing metrics for evaluating urban computing infrastructure and applications in real-world setting.

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Petri Volanen’s exhibition ‘Paradise’ can be watched in the UBI Displays during February. The artist’s interest towards delicate photographing of nature manifests itself in the pictures of the exhibition. The main part in Volanen’s exhibition is played by the partially protected Southern Finnish marsh scenery. Volanen’s exhibition is displayed in the Street Gallery between 1st and 28th of February 2010.

If you wish to have your own exhibition in the Street Gallery, contact katugalleria@ubioulu.fi.