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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. It was an idea that seemed to have all the right ingredients for the tech-saturated world of 21 st century urban mobility.

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Connected Objects Will Become Your New Problem

Daniel Burrus

Although there is a growing realization of our responsibilities around our lifestyle choices and the environmental carbon footprint we leave behind, we are only just starting to think about the impact of our digital footprint and how it could affect our future selves.

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A Cisco Program Brings Innovation and Equity to Millions

3BL Media

by Kevin Delaney When Ciscos Country Digital Acceleration (CDA) program began in 2015, it represented a radical new concept: that a global technology company could bring together nations industry, government, and academic leaders to co-innovate solutions to major societal problems. If anyone had doubts, they were soon dispelled.

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Vast array of solar power equipment left exposed online

Utiliity Dive

Dive Insight: The transition to renewable energy sources and the increasing digitization of the power grid have combined to create serious cybersecurity risks. Kneeland said vulnerabilities in devices accidentally left online “remain a persistent pain point for sectors racing to digitalize, especially in the energy sector.”