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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. . As of 2021, Rotterdam officials were testing a pilot version of this grid.

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Qualcomm's Approach to Transforming Education

3BL Media

Through Qualcomm Smart Cities Accelerator Program, members can provide education as a service which allows school districts globally direct access to ecosystem members that work to enable smart classrooms and hybrid learning settings. Learn more in Qualcomm's 2021 Corporate Responsibility Report.

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US Coalition on Sustainability Partners With Leading Alliances To Create the World’s Largest Sustainability Action Platform

3BL Media

Launched in 2021, SustainChain unifies the efforts of innovators, impact investors, businesses, NGOs, and public-private alliances as they contribute to rebuilding supply chains and make critical progress on the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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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. The two-year Just Tech Fellowship was launched in November 2021 with an open call for proposals.​

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PVC cables sector has worked to reduce toxic emissions, as sector conference explores

Envirotec Magazine

Interconnection, digitalisation, energy transition, sustainable mobility, smart cities… all the major challenges that will characterise the near future are connected by an invisible fil-rouge : wires and cables. At academic level, R&D might open new perspectives for PVC cables.

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6G Cybersecurity Will Transform How We Deal With Cyberattacks

3BL Media

According to a report published by Accenture , cyberattacks targeting companies grew by a staggering 31 percent from 2020 to 2021. Keysight Technologies 2021 Security Report suggests a dramatic increase in the deployment of ransomware attacks in 2020, with healthcare being the most attractive target for cyberattacks.