Uber’s subcontractor “UberEATS”, launched last summer in London, has proved to be very successful. Now the on-demand food delivery ...
Miami to become smartest city in the USA
Due to a new partnership with CIVIQ Smartscapes, Miami is going to launch the first fully interconnected smart city ecosystem in the U.S. CIVIQ is ...
UN World Data Forum: Data systems need to be strengthened at all levels
At the United Nations World Data Forum in Cape Town over 1400 delegated came together. As a result, the Cape Town Global Action Plan for Sustainable ...
OECD project “Going Digital” about the digital transformation and its repercussions
The OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) has started a two-year project called “Going Digital” that examines how the ...
24 billion IoT devices will be installed worldwide by 2020
More than 24 billion internet-connected devices will be installed world wide by 2020 which is more than 4 devices for each human. Once started on PCs it ...
Cisco launches center that helps smart city developments in India
The American technology company Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO) and the global business process management and services corporation Genpact Ltd. (G) announced ...
New York driver associations want to ban autonomous cars
New York’s Upstate Transportation Association (UTA) and Independent Drivers Guild (IDG) are pressing for bans on autonomous vehicles in the state ...
Estimated eight men are as rich as half of the world population
Oxam has released analysis results that show the gap between the very rich and the poor is far greater than one year ago and it is even starker than ...
A new way of calculating the social costs of carbon
The National Academy of Science released a new report that includes the recommendation of updates to the calculation of the “social cost of carbon&# ...
The ethics of big data
Susan Etlinger is an adviser on social data and while acknowledging the benefits of big data, she also calls attention to potential errors and the risk of ...
