Helpful Places

Embed transparency into your smart places and cities. Get a proven planning framework and governance infrastructure to engage, plan, and share consistent, publicly legible information on digital technologies in public spaces – leveraging the open-source standard Digital Trust for Places and Routines (DTPR). DTPR has been recognized as a finalist for the 2023 World Smart City Innovation Awards in Barcelona, shortlisted for Piccaso Canada's most impactful privacy product award, and highlighted by the American Planning Association in the 2023 Trend Report for Planners. DTPR is a featured initiative of the World Economic Forum's Future of the Connected World Global Action Plan, included in Cornell Tech University’s Urban Tech Hub’s Rebooting NYC Report and featured in publications such as Context, Cities Today, Wired, FWD50, the Urban AI blog, and the University of Michigan’s Urban Technology newsletter.