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Africa’s mobile revolution

The Politics
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A transformation has been taking place across the African continent, especially below the Sahara. And it’s accelerating. These developments will have an enormous impact on the 1.2 billion people who live on the continent. More importantly, what is taking place there will soon reverberate across the world. For a number... Read More

Africa’s clean energy future

The Politics
hot air balloons in Serengeti National Park
With abundant clean energy and new investments in renewable energy technologies, Africa may be on the cusp of a clean energy revolution. According to a report by the International Energy Agency (IEA), renewable energy will make up almost half of sub-Saharan Africa’s power generation growth by 2040. Like mobile phones... Read More

Disrupting government: RegTech on the blockchain

The Politics
young politician speaking into microphone
Blockchain euphoria has given way to blockchain fatigue. The hope remains that distributed ledger technologies (DLT) like blockchain will lead to an “Internet of value” in which anything of importance can be virtually managed, transacted and exchanged in a private and secure way. The reality so far, however, has been... Read More

Global transformation in the era of 5G

The Politics
night time cityscape with woman using smartphone
5G, or fifth generation mobile telecommunications, will drive a chain reaction of innovation that will transform virtually every industry. The rollout of 5G networks will mean a very different business and communications ecosystem, connecting a vast network of sensors, robots, and autonomous vehicles through sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI) and machine... Read More

Predicting our habits using big data

The Human Factor
michael hainsworth alex pentland MIT
Our smartphones know more about us than our spouses, partners and friends. It’s no surprise we guard them with more than just screen protectors, considering the secrets they hold. But if we were to hand over the metadata to our devices and those of about 3 million of our neighbors,... Read More

Smarter, safer and more inclusive communities

The Politics
central park community
This article is the second part in a series on smart cities. See more from Christine Wong. Smart cities are already spawning success stories. They’re using sensors, analytics, apps and mobile devices to gain deeper insights about local citizens and their environment. The end goal? Offer residents better information and... Read More

The race to dominate artificial intelligence

The Politics
human robot interaction
A new artificial intelligence (AI) arms race is underway. Led by software giants like Google and Facebook in the United States and Baidu and Tencent in China, AI is provoking a technological revolution that is fundamentally different from revolutions of the past. Ownership and control of AI and machine learning... Read More

The many faces of facial recognition technology

The Politics
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Facial recognition technology, like so many other capabilities of the digital age, is improving at a blinding clip. Companies are working to build smarter and more accurate programs based on deep learning and algorithms to identify people quickly in the name of security. China set out several years ago to... Read More

Regulating AR and VR is the key to protecting users

The Politics
AR VR goggles
Pokémon Go gave the world its first blockbuster augmented reality (AR) success. It also gave most players their first interaction with a digital world layered on top of the “real” world. By comparison, virtual reality (VR) is more like the Matrix: the user is isolated in an individual experience, tricking... Read More

Modernizing rules to make 5G a reality

The PoliticsThe Research
people crossing busy intersection
This article was originally published to the Nokia blog by Marc Vancoppenolle on December 10, 2018. We all have heard about the many benefits the Fourth Industrial Revolution will bring: revolutionizing existing industries and creating new ones, delivering a new productivity jump and creating more efficiencies, and by this, giving a boost... Read More

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