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Cesar Cerrudo: Securing the Intelligent City

Cesar Cerrudo Ioactive
September 27, 2015

As they invest in smart technologies to improve services and save money, cities also need to step up security against cyber threats.


 

Cities are incorporating new technologies at an increasingly rapid pace, becoming ever smarter. Newer technologies — along with faster and easier connectivity — allow cities to optimize resources, save money and provide better services to their citizens.
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Ian Bremmer: 5 Patterns Disrupting the World

Ian Bremmer Eurasia Group
September 23, 2015

Five forces are shaping political risks, from climate change to conflict. Here’s what to look out for.

We see patterns everywhere — in nature, in physics and in the world we’ve created — economic booms and recessions; market spikes and crashes; social stability and revolution. But I’ve never accepted George Santayana when he said, Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Recognizing patterns is one thing. Thinking they’re repeating themselves, that’s something else entirely.
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Andrew Tatem: How Mobiles Could Aid Disaster Response

Andrew Tatem Worldpop
December 19, 2014
There are now more mobile phones in use than there are people in the world to use them — some 7.2 billion phones. Mobile phones are becoming integral parts of our lives, penetrating into areas of the developing world that lack much of the fixed infrastructure taken for granted elsewhere. This makes them an excellent potential source of information about population movements.
 
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Brinnon Garrett Mandel: Finding a Path Forward in Global Health Innovation

Brinnon Garrett Mandel Jhpiego
December 11, 2014
“When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.” — Tuli Kupferberg, American poet
 

Innovation shouldn’t be easy. It requires understanding and breaking through existing patterns — in technology, behavior, policies or market forces. Innovating life-saving solutions for the world’s greatest health challenges, whether they are products or services, is also not easy because the patterns are complex — and sometimes unknown.
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How Big Data Can Help Contain Ebola — Q&A with Joy Alamgir

Joy Alamgir Xerox
December 02, 2014
When a disease outbreak strikes, it’s often the fear of the unknown that causes panic — rather than any sense of the actual risk of falling ill. Just ask people who were in Dallas or New York City when cases of Ebola were discovered there.
 
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Edward Gerwin, Jr.: Building the Right Trade Policies to Support the Internet of Things

Edward Gerwin Jr Trade Guru Llc
November 25, 2014
On factory floors and from computers in Silicon Valley, GE is building what it calls the “Industrial Internet” — global networks that employ sensors, 
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Grayson Brulte: Revisiting the Doctor Visit

Grayson Brulte Brulte Company
November 05, 2014
Today we are more in tune with our health than any other time in history. This new focus on health and change in consumer behavior is largely being driven by startups in Silicon Valley and innovative tech companies around the world. The innovators are disrupting and consumerizing healthcare to the benefit of all of us.
 

As tech companies consumerize healthcare and create more frictionless experiences, it would behoove doctors to take notice and implement certain technologies and services into their practice to improve the patient’s overall experience.
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Cultural Shift in the Industrial Internet Age — Q&A with Edward Youdell

Ed Youdell Fabricators And Manufacturers Association
October 30, 2014
The rise of the Industrial Internet and Big Data has the power to transform industries, with data captured by connected machines enabling companies to capture efficiencies across operations and potentially achieve zero downtime.
 

To realize the benefits of these technologies, however, companies need to ensure that data analytics are being applied in the most effective way and communicated to the right people. That often requires a cultural shift throughout the operations — from the C-suite to the shop floor.
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Victoria Lemieux: Why We’re Failing to Get the Most Out of Open Data

Dr Victoria Lemieux University Of British Columbia
October 14, 2014
An unprecedented number of individuals and organizations are finding ways to explore, interpret and use Open Data. Public agencies are hosting Open Data events such as meetups, hackathons and data dives.
 
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How Wireless Makes the Industrial Internet Work — Q&A With Mark Bartolomeo

Mark Bartolomeo Verizon
October 10, 2014
The Industrial Internet is revolutionizing how businesses operate across a range of industries, with companies from railways to healthcare providers starting to reap the benefits of machine-to-machine connectivity.
 
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