Final acceptance of the 2018 AcceliCITY applications officially ends on Monday, August 27th, putting an end to a tremendously successful inaugural Smart City startup competition application process (www.AcceliCITY.com). In the first year of the Smart City startup competition, AcceliCITY has reached over 300 potential applicants and has gained notable traction in the Smart City development…Read more AcceliCITY Announces Two Smart Challenges Ahead of Final Application Deadline
Month: August 2018
We warmly welcome Oscar Chamat as New Member of Barcelona’s Advisory Board
Born in Bogotá, Colombia, Oscar Mauricio Chamat is a civil engineer, a senior consultant in urban innovation, and an urban thinker. He currently advises the Barcelona Council for the network of bike lane expansion. Chamat is also a lecturer of smart cities and citizen participation for the Externado de Colombia University. Since 2016, he has been…Read more We warmly welcome Oscar Chamat as New Member of Barcelona’s Advisory Board
Why We Should Turn Social Credit Scoring Inside-Out
Author: Harry Wilson Very often, what we choose to believe a technology will become, turns out to be a self-fulfilling prophecy. In the West, we’ve believed that robots will come to displace us; in Japan, they’ve been seen as helpful and friendly; in each case, technology development has followed the narrative. Today’s dystopian vision is…Read more Why We Should Turn Social Credit Scoring Inside-Out