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The promise and peril of digital urban mobility

Corporate Knights

In 2015, a Helsinki start-up unveiled a plan for something it called “mobility-as-a-service,” or MaaS, based on ideas that had been developed in a 2014 masters' thesis at a Finnish university. It was an idea that seemed to have all the right ingredients for the tech-saturated world of 21 st century urban mobility.

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Episode 219: Water, workplaces and well-being

GreenBiz

Don't miss this one-on-one interview featuring GreenBiz Executive Editor Joel Makower and well-respected sustainability consultant John Elkington, who recently published his 20th book, "Green Swans: The Coming Boom in Regenerative Capitalism." Register for the live event at 1 p.m. EDT May 14. Circularity goes digital. EDT May 18.

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Will Your City Be a Smart City Soon?

Daniel Burrus

Despite the apparent trade-off between privacy and efficiency, authorities across the globe are intent on becoming known for achieving smart city status and for the right reasons. Many large companies are involved in making cities smart, including Cisco, IBM, and Siemens. The post Will Your City Be a Smart City Soon?

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Disrupting the Gospel of Tech Solutionism to Build Tech Justice

Stanford Social Innovation

As Simone Browne demonstrated in her book Dark Matters , contemporary tech-enabled surveillance practices are an extension of the long history of policing Black life in the United States from slavery onward. This is because the predictions that machines make are not objective. What if, sometimes, the answer isn’t technology?

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IoT news of the week for Sept. 23, 2022

Stacey Higginbotham

With this development, product engineers don’t have to worry about either of those for their Matter devices since Canonical is doing most of that work for them. The UK to review big tech in the smart home : As the U.S. Canonical ) — Kevin Tofel. Emerging Tech Brew ) — Stacey Higginbotham.

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Sustainable security solutions—protecting people, planet and profit.

Axis Communications Sustainability Blog

Yet, despite this emphasis, many still face a similar challenge: How does one successfully develop, introduce or use technology solutions and truly comply with sustainability’s three goals (or pillars), environmental stewardship, profit and business ethics, and social responsibility? How do they do this?

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Rotterdam uses smart tech to 'save city from drowning'

Corporate Knights

While typical green roofs function like sponges and look like gardens, Rotterdam is working with public and private landlords to develop a “green-blue grid.” The tanks, in turn, are equipped with electronic drain valves that can be opened and closed remotely, in some cases via a smart phone app. .