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The promise and peril of digital urban mobility

Corporate Knights

The company, Global MaaS, had built an app that provides city-dwellers with a digital one-stop shop for all sorts of travel options – transit, taxis, ride hailing, bike sharing, and so on. As of late 2019, Global MaaS had raised almost €54 million ($84 million) from investors including BP and Mitsubishi.

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Rotterdam uses smart tech to 'save city from drowning'

Corporate Knights

While Rotterdam’s blue-green grid is still far from completion, it represents an example of how a set of digital sensing technologies can be potentially harnessed to produce a smart city solution to an urban sustainability problem. . We learn from each other how to cope with these so-called smart city projects.”

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Smart Cities – Seeing the Invisible and Doing the Impossible

Daniel Burrus

Both local leaders and major companies are paying attention to these Hard Trends , becoming more anticipatory in their thinking and thus developing a solution by creating “smart cities.”. Transforming Our Cities. Smart City Benefits.

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Qualcomm Announces Shortlisted Teams for the Qualcomm Vietnam Innovation Challenge 2024

3BL Media

These ten startup teams, specializing in technology areas such as smart cities, robotics, automotive, Internet of Things (IoT), AgriTech, Generative and other AI, and more, have been chosen to receive a grant of US$10,000 each in cash prizes to further develop their proposals during the 8-month incubation period.

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Coming Soon to Wi-SUN Field Area Network: Versatility to connect sensors with low power and high throughput capabilities

Cisco CSR

to meet increasing digitization needs. In 2019 the Wi-SUN Alliance introduced the f… Read more on Cisco Blogs The Catalyst IR8140 Heavy Duty Series Router will be Cisco’s first router to support n ew Capabilities for FAN 1.1.

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Enabling the Deep-Tech and Innovation Ecosystems in Vietnam, Taiwan and Africa

3BL Media

Vietnam Launched in December 2019, Qualcomm Vietnam Innovation Challenge (QVIC) , incubates startups in several transformational technologies. Their end-to-end IoT applications span healthcare, smart cities, agricultural technology, smart homes, automotive, advanced computing, semiconductor design, XR, wearables, robotics and drones.

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Disrupting the Gospel of Tech Solutionism to Build Tech Justice

Stanford Social Innovation

From “ smart cities ” to “ smart borders ,” the violence that underpins local forms of social displacement and global regimes of boundary-building is encoded in new surveillance technologies. What if, sometimes, the answer isn’t technology?