Is the pandemic highlighting just how powerful (and invasive) smart city technology will be? Smart cities rely on the collective intelligence derived from the technologies embedded into the framework and services of its future-forward metropolis. The smart city concept is built on data. Fed back from a metropolis’s worth of sensors and endpoints, data provides […]
Hilton Supra, Vice Chairman of Ztudium and citiesabc is joined by Hirander Misra, Chair & CEO GMEX Group & SECDEX and Sean Kiernan, Chief Executive Officer at DAG Global in a new series interview for citiesabc. The three financial industry experts go through the many challenges that financial firms and services face in today’s […]
Technology & Coronavirus: Changing The Way We Work News / opinion release guest contribution By Anthony Ginsberg Co-Creator, HAN-GINS Global Innovative Technology ETF Technology is coming to the rescue in a major way for workers and school kids whose lives have been disrupted by the Coronavirus. With millions of school-aged children at home various tech […]
Jorge Sebastiao is a technology thought leader, influencer and ICT expert in the area of cyber security with more than 35 years of experience in technology systems. In this new interview for citiesabc, conducted by Dinis Guarda, cyber security is a central theme as every digital system exposes new – and unexpected, risks. That is […]
In 1950, 746 Million people lived in cities but just one hundred years later in 2050, this is anticipated to surpass 6 Billion – some 66% of the world’s population. In this increasingly urban, data-driven and hybrid world that integrates the physical and the virtual, the concept of ‘smartness’ comes to the fore. The vision […]
As the coronavirus pandemic expands worldwide, governments have had to take extreme measures to stop the transmission. As such, they have put entire cities and countries into lockdown. This directly affects urban economies on a multi-lateral level, including from social and economic standpoints. The need for collaboration is higher than ever -especially regarding health data-, […]
Over half of the planet now lives in cities, and more than two-thirds of the world’s population will be urbanized by 2050. Cities are the epicentre of all the challenges we are facing. With the advent of Covid-19, millions of people have had their lifestyle changed and this will lead to fragile social, psychological and […]
“A smart city is an intelligent town that provides enormous possibilities for human growth through art, culture, social, architectural, economic, political, environmental, and scientific flowering with the optimal mix of nature, technology, humanity, and arts.” ― Amit Ray, Peace Bliss Beauty and Truth: Living with Positivity More than half of the world population live in […]