How Technology and Covid-19 Are Reinventing Education
14/11/2020 – Digital Native
Barcelona Will Supersize its Car-Free ‘Superblocks’
14/11/2020 – Bloomberg
China also aspires to have its own city of the future designed by a tech giant
Tencent is designing a car-free new city of the future in Shenzhen, China, aiming towards having it completed by 2027.
Empowering small business in times of crisis
Empowering the citizens to create new ecosystems is vital in order to deconstruct and reconstruct our cities. Throughout this interview with Natalia Olson-Urtecho, co-founder of the Disruptive Factory, a women-led, sustainable goaled company that empowers small businesses, and Chief operating Officer at RadicalxChange, we will learn about her work in both companies as well as […]
Artificial Intelligence and Big Data in the fight against COVID-19
Today, AI technologies and tools play a key role in every aspect of the COVID-19 crisis response. Moreover, before the world was even aware of the threat posed by the coronavirus, AI systems had detected the outbreak of an unknown type of pneumonia in China. As the outbreak has now become a global pandemic, AI […]
x-tention: Towards post covid-19 smart tourism
A back-end solution for a tourism app allowing visitors to make informed decisions to avoid crowded areas. In the current COVID-19 public health crisis, any local authority that depends on tourism for its income is suffering. While tourist areas want to keep their tourism economy alive the local authorities also have a personal responsibility to […]
Arca: Wave control for better health
A comprehensive monitoring system allowing s on-going scrutiny of the emission levels of any source of electromagnetic radiation. Comprehensive monitoring system that allows on-going scrutiny of the emission levels of any source of electromagnetic radiation (mobile telephone antennas, WiFi, high-voltage power lines, etc.) and verification that they meet the safety standards established by the competent […]
Unicard: Multimodal transport made easy
A platform to help local authorities, transport operators and regional bodies truly deliver Mobility as a Service. The world of transport is changing fast, but for mobility-as-a-service to truly deliver, it must find a way to blend traditional modes of transport like rail, bus and tram with the latest innovations in electric vehicles, micromobility, and […]
Urban Vision Engagement Project: Harnessing the power of Virtual Reality
A tool integrating immersive technology with analytics to create advanced community engagement. Consulted by Bournemouth, Poole and Christchurch Council to visualise a large-scale redevelopment to be used for public engagement via the web, Oculus Go, Oculus Quest and other high-end headsets, Dorset Creative produced the VR showcase for Lansdowne. This project was a finalist in […]
Pebbles: How to avoid bottlenecks in the grid
An electricity trading platform based on blockchain to analyze the effects of this technology on the energy market. The small, picturesque town in the Allgäu has long been known as an energy pioneer. The citizens of Wildpoldsried are now again staying one step ahead with "Pebbles" – peer-to-peer energy trading based on blockchain technology. Pebbles […]