I’m sure most of y’all heard about TED – Ideas worth spreading – and have probably watched at least one TED Talk in your life. (If not, I guarantee you’re gonna find one that’ll become your favourite). Well, TEDx are kinda wannabe-TED-events, independently organized throughout the world. One of them was hosted in Riga today. Presented [...]

Long awaited, anticipated and hated – it finally arrives: the official, state-owned Crime Map displaying law violations committed on the territory of Latvia. Provided by the government e-services web portal Latvija.lv, the map currently features crimes from January 1 2010 only, but definitely provides valuable informative insight. It is available in Latvian only and allows [...]

Thanks to the Riga Transport enthusiast Viteks Bariševs, Riga will now have a cool public transit map. The official carrier, Rigas Satiksme, has failed to introduce its own comprehensive solution for years, so the initiative is now in hands of a private creator. Currently, the map is available as preview only, on Viteks Bariševs’ Facebook [...]