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Data
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The Most Valuable Tool For Ending Poverty? Data.
The data revolution is under way, and data has impacted how we buy, work, live—even how we love.…
2019-04-05
How Artificial Intelligence Is Already Changing Government
“We don’t have enough people to keep up.” “We have to go through miles of case law on…
2019-01-22
The Startup Owner’s Guide To Online Security: The Extra Mile You Should Go
Cybersecurity is often seen as a problem for the “big boys”. Data breaches at companies such as Facebook…
2018-12-28
How To Protect Yourself When Making Payments Online
Are you planning to do your Christmas shopping online this year? More and more people are choosing to…
2018-11-07
Safety Tips When It Comes To Electronics
Technology has gone beyond what anyone could have imagined. Tech gurus around the world are still developing things…
2018-11-05
How Cybercrime Operates Like A Legitimate Industry
Cybercrime is an underground economy worth millions and millions of dollars. It’s organized, works like a legitimate economy,…
2018-08-23
Here’s How Data Could Make Our Cities Safer
Across Europe, fast-growing cities and city regions are increasingly confronted with urban violence from extremists seeking to further…
2018-06-04
The Tech That’s Changing How Cities Help The Homeless
Every day, a team of community health paramedics in Austin, Texas, fans out across the city to provide…
2018-06-04
Computer Systems For Your New Business
When you’re planning to start a business, your focus will be on the products or services you intend…
2018-05-26
What Is GDPR? Everything You Need To Know About The New General Data Protection Regulations
General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, is coming. Here’s what it means, how it’ll impact individuals and businesses…
2018-05-25
How To Wrestle Your Data From Data Brokers, Silicon Valley — & Cambridge Analytica
Cambridge Analytica thinks that I’m a “Very Unlikely Republican.” Another political data firm, ALC Digital, has concluded I’m…
2018-05-03
Population Pyramids : Powerful Predictors Of The Future
Why is Rwanda’s population skyrocketing, while Japan’s population is declining? Population statistics are like crystal balls – when…
2018-04-30
With Smart Cities, Your Every Step Will Be Recorded
Modern cities are brimming with objects that receive, collect and transmit data. This includes mobile phones but also objects…
2018-04-23
It’s Time To Regulate ‘Smart City’ Technology, Too
This isn’t just about Facebook: When Google is building cities and cars are turning into data-harvesting machines, the…
2018-04-17
Why The Business Model Of Social Media Giants Like Facebook Is Incompatible With Human Rights
Facebook has had a bad few weeks. The social media giant had to apologise for failing to protect the personal…
2018-04-11
How To Make Smart Cities Human Again
Huge quantities of networked sensors have appeared in cities across the world in recent years. These include cameras and sensors that count…
2018-02-12
A Machine-Learning Census Of America’s Cities
Millions of images of public streets offer a cheap, sweeping view of America’s demography. “WOULD it not be…
2017-12-24
Using AI to Solve Complex Global Supply Chain Management Challenges
Companies are starting to apply artificial intelligence across global supply chain management to improve efficiency, speed and decision-making in areas…
2017-12-11
Predicting Our Future As Internet Of Things Come Alive
Physical actions in the real world and data processing in the digital world are fusing as the Internet…
2016-08-25
Open Data/Open Government – What Should Cities Really Focus On?
I have heard a lot of talk in the last few years about open government and open data.…
2016-02-26
California State Synergy To Use Open Data
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Efforts to bring open data into, well, the open have touched off widespread discussion as…
2015-09-09
A Tale Of Four World Cities Compared
These four cities – home to a total of more than 80 million people – respond to economic,…
2015-09-03
Which U.S. Cities’ Wireless Carrier Dominates On A State-By-State Basis
When it comes to the best overall wireless performance in the United States, Verizon reigns supreme. According to…
2015-08-25
How Data Analytics Help Cities Re-think People’s Health And Safety
In cities around the country, we’re seeing the beginning of fundamental change in how governments discharge their regulatory…
2015-08-24
How Philly 311 Platform Comes With An Innovative Twist
Earlier this year, the city of Philadelphia – one of the communities in the City Accelerator’s first cohort…
2015-08-19
How Charlotte Takes Action For Their Smart City Initiative
There’s been much discussion lately about the potential of “smart cities” and connecting data to help make communities…
2015-07-29
Without Smart, Connected People There Are No Smart Cities
Driverless cars, smart homes, streetcars and high-speed rail, skyscrapers clad in solar panels – there are a lot…
2015-07-20
Smart Alerting : Shelter From The Data Storm
Here’s a fundamental paradox of today’s massively connected IT systems: the more information available to you, the less…
2015-06-17
How Big Data May Help Sustain A Sustainable City
Global IT firm Hitachi Consulting has been chosen to build a first-of-its-kind Big Data platform for Denmark’s capital…
2015-06-17
How Glasgow Is Reinventing Itself With Data
What will the city of the future look like? Like a lot of cities, Glasgow has an idea.…
2015-06-11
A Vulnerable City Is Not A Smart City
“Real world hacker” Cesar Cerrudo has blasted vendors, saying they’re stopping security researchers from testing smart city systems,…
2015-06-04
Would You Share Private Data For A Better City?
In the 1950s, a decade after he outlined the theory of the Big Bang and the expanding…
2015-05-29
Is Your City Too Smart For You?
Could pursuing the rational, clinical urbanism of smart cities destroy the charming chaos of traditional city life without…
2015-03-19
What Big Data Means For Big Cities
Sometimes the most powerful and transformative technologies emerge by accident, an unintended consequence of other developments. When this…
2015-03-18
How Crowdsourcing And Machine Learning Will Change The Way We Design Cities
Researchers at MIT Media Lab are using crowdsourced data to create an algorithm that determines how safe a…
2015-02-16