Smart cities are all about people and digital twins – creating digital avatars of the city – property, infrastructure & connections which transcend geography with data + governance, emotional architecture serving people, businesses. All the challenges and opportunities will be discussed in the upcoming event openbusinesscouncil summit on 9-10 December. “Men come together in cities […]
Tech company Synthesized is offering a freemium version of the platform immediately, called Community Edition The platform also supports the ability to rebalance data, removing bias within a dataset No coding or deep technical expertise is required, simply upload a spreadsheet with structured data or connect to any database The first publicly available solution to […]
Countries across the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region are implementing smart city technologies such as smart surveillance along with data hub system for advanced contact tracing of COVID-19 infected citizens, says GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company. Manish Chaurasiya, Senior Technology Analyst at GlobalData, comments: “Though the spread of COVID-19 has hindered the roll-out of large-scale […]
Digital Transformation Why Businesses Governments Must Change with Smart Cities, 4IR, AI, Blockchain There is no alternative to digital transformation. The challenge and opportunity is: how to do it? As per George Westerman, MIT Sloan Initiative on the Digital Economy: “When digital transformation is done right, it’s like a caterpillar turning into a butterfly, but […]
openbusinesscouncil summit showcases 20 Governments and 100+ Global Industry Speakers on the 9 & 10 December 2020 and reflects how to build better solutions in an environment impacted by Coronavirus. The openbusinesscouncil summit is a leading 2-day global virtual event that aims to strengthen businesses, startups and governments with digital transformation strategies and how to […]
Home values in leading markets continue to grow, despite the economic downturn caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Housing prices in many major cities are overheating, which increases the risk of a real estate bubble. According to data presented by StockApps, Munich and Frankfurt top the list of cities with the biggest risk of the housing […]
In order to drive maximum business value from data analytics strategies organisations must not rely on IT departments to determine the data strategy SMBs have increasingly invested more time and money in their data and analytics initiatives over the past five years – according to Gartner – however, many are falling short of unlocking the […]
In the next 20 years, it is estimated that around 70% of the world population will be living in megacities or urban areas with a population of 10 million people or more. As of today, there are 34 cities that meet the definition of a megacity around the globe. Asia, with 20 megacities, tops the […]
The world is a whirlpool of permanent transformation resulting from the digital revolution and standing still is a threat to survival. In the Fourth Industrial Revolution, innovation has become a necessity and many businesses already consider it central to their strategy. According to Forbes magazine, innovation is vital for companies because it allows them to penetrate markets quicker, create original concepts, […]
New Mexico is launching a new ‘smart infrastructure’ and carbon-neutral energy era on a grand scale, after its 2019 Energy Transition Act (ETA) positioned the US state as a global leader to fight Climate Change. Its ambition will be enabled by partnership between The Agile Fractal Grid (AFG), developing a new integrated power and broadband […]