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The promise and peril of digital urban mobility

Corporate Knights

In 2015, a Helsinki start-up unveiled a plan for something it called “mobility-as-a-service,” or MaaS, based on ideas that had been developed in a 2014 masters' thesis at a Finnish university.

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Using Technology to Better Support Conflict-Affected Families in Nigeria

3BL Media

In 2017, Cisco and Mercy Corps came together to launch Technology for Impact – a 5-year partnership centered around the shared goal of delivering humanitarian aid and development assistance faster, better and to more people around the world through digital solutions. Now in its final year, Technology for Impact has reached more than 9.8

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Leaning into Resilience: Three Ways Small and Growing Agriculture Businesses Have Navigated Global Crises – And How Investors Can Support Them

James Militzer

We’ve seen three approaches that successful SGBs had in common: 1) they developed adaptable supply chains, 2) they built out domestic sales channels, and 3) they digitized aspects of their businesses. While they shipped smaller quantities, they could also ship more frequently, as this route proved more reliable.

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IoT news of the week for May 6, 2022

Stacey Higginbotham

Wi-Fi 5 products will still be shipping as well. Sabanci Group expects to create a digital business focused on advanced analytics, IoT, and cybersecurity, with Radiflow a part of that organization. MEMS are chips that combine a sensor and a digital element to move from analog information to digital information.

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Beyond Bitcoin: The Future of Blockchain Technology

Daniel Burrus

A blockchain also employs cryptography to keep exchanges secure, incorporating a decentralized database, or “digital ledger,” of transactions that everyone on the network can see. A blockchain voting network has already been used—Denmark’s Liberal Alliance employed a blockchain for internal voting back in 2014. Military Use —The U.S.

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Inside Eastman’s moonshot goal for endlessly circular plastics

GreenBiz

In the 1990s, Kodak’s photography business darkened with the advent of digital cameras — the company was slow to adapt and got run over by more nimble competitors — and the company spun off its chemical division in 1994 to help pay down debt. George Eastman didn’t live to see much of the success he catalyzed.

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Ghosts In The Machine Are Killing Our Oceans: How Armchair Science is Sinking Ocean Reality

Russ George

These digital abstractions are mistaken for knowledge, their colorful outputs mistaken for truth. That means scientists must be on ships, upon the briny deep, in direct contact with the complexity of marine life. A majority of today’s ocean scientists and fisheries managers have never spent meaningful time at sea.