GIS Tool Helping USDA Improve Emergency Communications
An initiative spearheaded by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) employee Dirk Fillpot is changing…
As sea farms around the world scramble to keep up pace with enormous seafood demand, aquaculture looks set to win the race for satisfying this growing appetite for seafood. Today, aquaculture — broadly defined as farming of aquatic organisms — supplies more than half the seafood…
Internet has enhance our way of life and the form of our social activities. It has grown from a commodified utility to a valuable resource that set base of future development. But as such resource, access to fast and reliable…
The World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Cities and Urbanization released a report within which it…
Last summer, the Chinese city of Xiangyang implemented a novel use of face recognition…
- “Can you sit up, please? Sir, sit up? Do you need to go to the hospital, sir?”
Sustainable living tends to have people thinking that you will end up paying more to save energy as wind towers and solar panel roofs tend to be expensive. However, Minneapolis nonprofits Aeon and Hope community managed to design a 90-unit apartment building with half the…
We complain that we need more energy, but the fact is that we are already generating it…
Continuing the assessment of accessibility of New York City subway system to the old and disabled, certain datasets can be helpful in framing the policy for improving the current scenario. The key task would be to find areas…
Researchers all around the world are finding new uses for city data created by…
In Portugal, opioid addicts have open access to state funded counselling and rehabilitation facilities that place an emphasis on treatment and group therapy, and cities around the globe are following Portugal’s lead. A…
Nowadays, many technical corporations invest into the development of driverless cars, as they believe the automatic vehicle will be the future ways of transportation. However, the drawback of the driverless car has emerged now, which raises people’s…
Over the past 15 years, overdose deaths in New York City have risen steadily according to a report by the…
