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 […]
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 […]
Cityzenith CEO Michael Jansen has launched a global ‘Clean Cities – Clean Future’ campaign to help our most polluted urban centres become carbon neutral, by donating the company’s Digital Twin platform SmartWorldPro2 to key cities, one at a time. Cities produce more than 70% of the earth’s greenhouse gases, but Jansen says use of cutting-edge […]
Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (“MDEC”) is tasked with organising and leading Malaysia’s Digital Economy forward. MDEC has recently announced Malaysia 5.0, which can contribute to a more sustainable and circular economy by building this national digital ecosystem with a unified alliance of stakeholders both within government and across private enterprise to enable business and societal migration to the digital […]
Dinis Guarda Interviews Naokazu Takemoto, Minister of State for Science and Technology Policy of Japan in citiesabc Youtube Podcast Minister Naokazu Takemoto currently serves as the Minister of State for Science and Technology of Japan since September 11, 2019. First elected as a Member of the House of Representatives (HR) in the Diet in 2000, […]
Falling prey to 21 substantial cyber attacks, Germany ranks fourth Interestingly, France has seen 11 significant cyber attacks in the time period of May 2006 – June 2020 America has experienced the most cyber attacks classified as significant between May 2006 – June 2020, with an astonishing 156 incidents The United Kingdom is in […]
Nearly a third of SMEs (30%) see their profitability increasing slightly over the coming 12 months despite the pandemic New research (1) commissioned by MBH Corporation plc, a UK headquartered listed diversified investment holding company that acquires successful, strong-performing small to medium enterprises across multiple geographies and sectors, reveals that despite the financial and economic […]
PicnicHealth, the venture-backed startup that gives patients unprecedented access to their medical records and the ability to contribute to scientific research, is announcing a strategic partnership with Roche and Genentech, a member of the Roche Group. PicnicHealth is gathering medical records data from proactively consenting patients, de-identifying it to ensure patient data privacy (HIPAA and […]
How the Digital Twin Market is set to grow to $35.8b pa over the next few years A recent Markets & Markets report estimated the Digital Twin market will grow from $3.8 billion in 2019, to $35.8 billion per year by 2025, at a CAGR of 45.4%. Digital Twin software is already revolutionizing industries such as […]