Helpful Places Information

We believe the ways places are designed and operated – and the technologies within them – should be helpful and empowering for people and their communities. Helpful Places helps organizations, and the communities they serve, harness the power of technology in ways that are transparent, inclusive, participatory, and in alignment with the community's goals. One of the ways we do that is by advancing the adoption and stewardship of Digital Trust for Places and Routines (DTPR), an open-source communication standard that seeks to increase transparency and accountability for digital technology in public places. DTPR has been recognized by the World Economic Forum as a featured initiative of the 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 Wired, FWD50, the Urban AI blog, and the University of Michigan’s Urban Technology newsletter.