Author: Pablo Valerio
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Lisbon’s Web Summit will happen online this year
Unless a miracle arrives, the largest tech conference of the year will be coming “from home,” as Portugal is still fighting the pandemic. Last year, the Portuguese government agreed to pay Web Summit €11 million a year to expand Lisbon’s conference facilities, anticipating that the number of participants would eventually increase from 70,000 to 100,000. The government […]
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This crisis will reshape the way we understand city living
Tel Aviv Foundation’s CEO says city leaders need to listen and be patient to learn from the current crisis. Also, the large events and crowds won’t be back for some time, but that could be a good thing
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Tirana’s young volunteers help elderly residents during COVID-19 lockdown
By joining the #AdoptoNjeGjyshe (#AdoptAGrandparent) initiative, youngsters are volunteering to support their lonely elderly neighbours by sharing a home-cooked meal or offering to deliver their groceries and medicines.
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Traffic patterns are going to drastically be very different, says Micromobility expert
While some bike-sharing systems are being shut off to reduce mobility, others are experiencing a sudden increase of demand as people avoid mass transit Bico AI, a British company founded in 2018, provides intelligence solutions for the micromobility industry, directly to operators of scooter and bike sharing systems. Today provides business intelligence to some of […]
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To Map the City’s Retail Health You Need to Walk the Streets
Barcelona and Manhattan, two municipalities with the same population and retail model, share many similarities and a couple of things they can learn from each other. Municipalities, facing the need to understand the real economic activity of the city, and its retail composition, can’t rely on registration data, they need to do fieldwork and keep […]
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Tel Aviv Foundation CEO shares her view of what makes a Smart City
Tel Aviv, one of the early recipients of the Smart City Award, has expanded its leadership with the introduction of new tools, such as the new “City Coin” In 2014, Tel Aviv was awarded with the Smart City prize at the Smart City Expo World Congress. Since then, the city has expanded its leadership in […]
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Will MWC Barcelona be affected by Coronavirus?
About 250 Chinese companies are registered to exhibit in the Mobile World Congress, including some from the city of Wuhan, where the Coronavirus outbreak first originated. The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the Coronavirus outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). The outlook for the Chinese exhibitors and delegates to attend MWC20 is not promising, as […]
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Barcelona getting ready for MWC19
The clock is ticking down to the biggest mobile technology show in the world. In less than two weeks Barcelona will receive 100,000+ delegates and 2,400 exhibitors from over 200 countries and territories for the Mobile World Congress. The combination of 5G, IoT, and edge computing, coupled with AI and machine learning, will be discussed […]
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To comply with GDPR, most data should remain at the edge — IoT Times
During his recent speech at the European Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners, Apple’s CEO Tim Cook praised the GDPR as an example that other governments should follow. “This year, you’ve shown the world that good policy and political will can come together to protect the rights of everyone. We should celebrate the […]
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Self-Driving Truck Platooning Saves Fuel and Time
The European Union wants to save fuel, reduce accidents and make road transport more sustainable by using convoys that link two to five trucks, using connectivity technology and automated driving support systems to make this a reality. Over 75% of inland cargo transport within the EU — about 1,750 billion tonne-kilometers (tkm) — travel by road, according to Eurostat. In […]