This document discusses how cities can compete in the new innovation economy by becoming smarter. It argues that skills, knowledge, talent, diversity, and innovation will be increasingly important drivers of economic growth. Cities will need to use data and analytics to improve services, attract and retain skilled workers, and gain competitive advantages over other cities. The document provides examples of how smarter transportation, law enforcement, and other services can make cities safer, more efficient, and better places to live and work. It emphasizes that developing analytics skills across the entire workforce will be important for cities to effectively use data to solve problems and improve decision-making.
Arab Future Cities Summit (Doha, 22APR2013 clean)Lynn Reyes
Presentation made at the Arab Future Cities Summit in Doha. With more new cities being built in the region than any other in the world, a profound opportunity to start smarter.
Success will depend on deeper, more holistic and informed planning, collaboration and execution. Transportation providers will need to become smarter. (1) Predict demand and optimize capacity and assets, (2) Improve operational efficiency while reducing environmental impact, (3) Dramatically improve the end-to-end traveler or customer experience, (4) Assure safety and security.
Advancing Reinaldo Gonsalves’ Model of Global Economic InsertionIan Walcott-Skinner
This paper is located in what is referred to as policy critique within the theoretical framework of International Political Economy (IPE) which, by origin, seeks to problematize issues of policy. In 1994, celebrated Brazilian economist, Reinaldo Gonsalves produced an important thesis and model on how to measure a country’s global insertion. At that time, Gonsalves could not have foreseen the influence of the Internet on global trade or on domestic trade policies. As such, the issue of global digital connectivity now presents itself as another pillar to measure global insertion. By examining regional Caribbean policy in this regard, this is an opportunity to advance Gonsalves’ model stimulate further on the opportunities associated with global digital connectivity.
The book pinpoints that the digital future is exposed to the danger of chaotic, unregulated growth, which constitutes a challenge for countries that still operate according to traditional economic models, and that public thinking in the Arab region in facing challenges still follows the "reaction methodology" and temporary solutions with short-term prospects, and that this is confirmed by the current international indicators of its competitiveness. The book proposes that in order to address this, visions and efforts should be based on strategies driven by scientific methods, and with it the Arab countries must develop a clear understanding of the main challenges before jumping to seize opportunities.
The book shows that it is fundamental for policymakers and decision-makers to have precise and accurate understanding of the intricate details in digital transformation initiatives and the role that modern technologies can play in changing the rules and systems of current practices, and in how to develop digitized, more innovative business models with which to build resilient and sustainable social economies and systems.
The book also draws on the current data and indicators of the global economy and that they are pushing to form a worrying picture of weaknesses in Arab countries, which in turn may threaten the stability of the entire region, especially with regard to the "cognitive decline" and “increasing unemployment rates” and “poor economic performance"; and that these challenges call for dealing with it as key strategic indicators that require urgent action plans; with emphasis that these plans need to be designed to reflect different ways of thinking and adapted to the nature of the requirements and challenges of the 21st century and treat them as forces and positive factors.
The book highlights the importance of accelerating the implementation of a set of initial reform projects to encourage the development of more dynamic and developed digital business environments in the Arab region, in parallel with the development of educational systems and healthcare, and strengthening agricultural capabilities to achieve food security targets, and focus on economies based on industry and production, and promoting the development of Arab digital platforms to support e-commerce practices.
Arab Future Cities Summit (Doha, 22APR2013 clean)Lynn Reyes
Presentation made at the Arab Future Cities Summit in Doha. With more new cities being built in the region than any other in the world, a profound opportunity to start smarter.
Success will depend on deeper, more holistic and informed planning, collaboration and execution. Transportation providers will need to become smarter. (1) Predict demand and optimize capacity and assets, (2) Improve operational efficiency while reducing environmental impact, (3) Dramatically improve the end-to-end traveler or customer experience, (4) Assure safety and security.
Advancing Reinaldo Gonsalves’ Model of Global Economic InsertionIan Walcott-Skinner
This paper is located in what is referred to as policy critique within the theoretical framework of International Political Economy (IPE) which, by origin, seeks to problematize issues of policy. In 1994, celebrated Brazilian economist, Reinaldo Gonsalves produced an important thesis and model on how to measure a country’s global insertion. At that time, Gonsalves could not have foreseen the influence of the Internet on global trade or on domestic trade policies. As such, the issue of global digital connectivity now presents itself as another pillar to measure global insertion. By examining regional Caribbean policy in this regard, this is an opportunity to advance Gonsalves’ model stimulate further on the opportunities associated with global digital connectivity.
The book pinpoints that the digital future is exposed to the danger of chaotic, unregulated growth, which constitutes a challenge for countries that still operate according to traditional economic models, and that public thinking in the Arab region in facing challenges still follows the "reaction methodology" and temporary solutions with short-term prospects, and that this is confirmed by the current international indicators of its competitiveness. The book proposes that in order to address this, visions and efforts should be based on strategies driven by scientific methods, and with it the Arab countries must develop a clear understanding of the main challenges before jumping to seize opportunities.
The book shows that it is fundamental for policymakers and decision-makers to have precise and accurate understanding of the intricate details in digital transformation initiatives and the role that modern technologies can play in changing the rules and systems of current practices, and in how to develop digitized, more innovative business models with which to build resilient and sustainable social economies and systems.
The book also draws on the current data and indicators of the global economy and that they are pushing to form a worrying picture of weaknesses in Arab countries, which in turn may threaten the stability of the entire region, especially with regard to the "cognitive decline" and “increasing unemployment rates” and “poor economic performance"; and that these challenges call for dealing with it as key strategic indicators that require urgent action plans; with emphasis that these plans need to be designed to reflect different ways of thinking and adapted to the nature of the requirements and challenges of the 21st century and treat them as forces and positive factors.
The book highlights the importance of accelerating the implementation of a set of initial reform projects to encourage the development of more dynamic and developed digital business environments in the Arab region, in parallel with the development of educational systems and healthcare, and strengthening agricultural capabilities to achieve food security targets, and focus on economies based on industry and production, and promoting the development of Arab digital platforms to support e-commerce practices.
HP's annual publication of Megatrends - a look at the disruptive social, economic, demographic, technological and industry forces shaping the world over the next 5, 10, 15 and 20 years. This year's Megatrends are anchored in an assessment of Global Economic Segmentation, where's the money in the world in terms of peoples' income, where's it headed, and what are the implications of changing demographics, money and technology on how people live, work and all things in between.
The fifth edition of the report ranks Stockholm first followed by London, Paris, Singapore and Copenhagen.
The 2014 edition of the Networked Society City Index examines and ranks 40 cities from around the world, looking at their performance, challenges and opportunities in terms of ICT, sustainability and development. The extensive research gives us a glimpse into the future of the city.
The report also continues to explore the connection between ICT maturity and triple bottom line development in cities around the world.
One of the key findings from the report is the fact that cities with a low ICT maturity tend to be improving their ICT maturity faster than high performing cities, indicating a catch-up effect. Many cities also have the opportunity to leapfrog by avoiding expensive and increasingly obsolete physical infrastructure and instead move straight ahead to advanced mobile technology.
Stockholm’s top ranking is thanks to its well-developed ICT infrastructure, extremely well-developed open data and e-services and high-quality access to both fixed and mobile broadband, thanks to extensive infrastructure rollouts.
WEF predicts automation will displace 75 million jobs globally by 2022 but create 133 million new ones. Those in kindergarten today will graduate in 2030. What will work look like? What skills will be most in demand? We identify the most and least important skills for success in a world driven by automation and human-machine collaboration.
What is the relationship between megatrends and new business? Roope Mokka's presentation at Chalmers University drills into megatrends and creates a case for resource smart business.
Presentatie IBM Nederland op Content Club #CC03, thema: Thought LeadershipContent Club Nederland
Presentatie IBM Nederland door Jelmer Letterie en Kirsten Haver Droeze op Content Club-avond editie 3 (#CC03)
Op 14 november 2013 bij IBM Nederland.
Thema: Hoe word je (als merk) een Thought Leader?
Meer info over Content Club Nederland? www.contentclub.nl
Gastheren: Cor Hospes (Tsjee) en Mark de Lange (Beklijf)
http://www.ericsson.com/thinkingahead/networked_society/city-life
The Networked Society City Index report continues to explore the correlation between cities’ ICT maturity and their triple bottom line development.
As with the previous studies, this index continues to show a strong correlation between ICT maturity of the city and their social, economic and environmental progress. In this report, New York City tops the overall ranking followed by Stockholm, London and Singapore.
The Networked Society City Index aims to develop a comprehensive evaluation of cities’ ICT maturity and their triple bottom line development. Through a series of reports we have analyzed 25 urban areas around the world from a city, citizen, and now, business perspective.
Patrik Regårdh from Ericsson’s Networked Society Lab says: "We see the individual – rather than city institutions or businesses – as the drivers of development resulting from ICT maturity. Governments follow by adapting to citizens’ changing behavior, while businesses primarily adopt ICT innovations to increase internal efficiency. More importantly, government decisions help steer the business sector’s ICT development. Therefore, changes in policy, regulation and planning, paired with research and support for taking risks and funding, are some of the key factors for driving progress. These factors are crucial in helping organizations of all sizes to connect, collaborate and compete more effectively."
Not only do we overestimate how easy it is to replace humans, replacing them is often neither desirable nor the best use of AI. A better way to think about the future of AI is interlacing its strengths with those of humans.
Autonomous vehicles are often posed as reducing human interaction with vehicles to a minimum. While they will take more of the cognitive load of driving off humans, in many cases it is more useful to think of a human-machine collaboration.
Mobile Technology had a deep impact on many areas of our daily life in the last couple of years. This presentations seeks to provide quick insight into the state of mobile technology in education and learning. It covers corporate learning, personal learning and key trends for the future.
Five Disruptive Technologies and Their Impact on Connecticut's JobsBillKelvie
Technology disruption will cause the loss of 47% of jobs according to a recent Oxford study. This research looks at five technologies which will drive this wrenching change: Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Vehicles, Electronic Commerce, Internet of Things and Robotics. It examines the impact on CT but is very applicable to the United States as well.
What's Next? Megatrends Shaping Tomorrow's Society and Rebooting DemocracyNino Lo Cascio
Megatrends Shaping Tomorrow's Society & Rebooting Democracy;
- IT Industrialisation
- Information Explosion
- "Everyware" - The Mobile Internet
- Natural UI
- Aging Population
- Digital Natives
- New emerging democracy model
- Scenarios 2020
Delivering emergency medical services: research, application, and outreachLaura Albert
Laura McLay's slides from the German Operations Research Society Conference for the presentation entitled "Delivering emergency medical services: research application, and outreach"
A presentation in March 2012 presented at the Ramathibodi Hospital Administration School, Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University in Bangkok, Thailand. Presentation partly in English and partly in Thai.
HP's annual publication of Megatrends - a look at the disruptive social, economic, demographic, technological and industry forces shaping the world over the next 5, 10, 15 and 20 years. This year's Megatrends are anchored in an assessment of Global Economic Segmentation, where's the money in the world in terms of peoples' income, where's it headed, and what are the implications of changing demographics, money and technology on how people live, work and all things in between.
The fifth edition of the report ranks Stockholm first followed by London, Paris, Singapore and Copenhagen.
The 2014 edition of the Networked Society City Index examines and ranks 40 cities from around the world, looking at their performance, challenges and opportunities in terms of ICT, sustainability and development. The extensive research gives us a glimpse into the future of the city.
The report also continues to explore the connection between ICT maturity and triple bottom line development in cities around the world.
One of the key findings from the report is the fact that cities with a low ICT maturity tend to be improving their ICT maturity faster than high performing cities, indicating a catch-up effect. Many cities also have the opportunity to leapfrog by avoiding expensive and increasingly obsolete physical infrastructure and instead move straight ahead to advanced mobile technology.
Stockholm’s top ranking is thanks to its well-developed ICT infrastructure, extremely well-developed open data and e-services and high-quality access to both fixed and mobile broadband, thanks to extensive infrastructure rollouts.
WEF predicts automation will displace 75 million jobs globally by 2022 but create 133 million new ones. Those in kindergarten today will graduate in 2030. What will work look like? What skills will be most in demand? We identify the most and least important skills for success in a world driven by automation and human-machine collaboration.
What is the relationship between megatrends and new business? Roope Mokka's presentation at Chalmers University drills into megatrends and creates a case for resource smart business.
Presentatie IBM Nederland op Content Club #CC03, thema: Thought LeadershipContent Club Nederland
Presentatie IBM Nederland door Jelmer Letterie en Kirsten Haver Droeze op Content Club-avond editie 3 (#CC03)
Op 14 november 2013 bij IBM Nederland.
Thema: Hoe word je (als merk) een Thought Leader?
Meer info over Content Club Nederland? www.contentclub.nl
Gastheren: Cor Hospes (Tsjee) en Mark de Lange (Beklijf)
http://www.ericsson.com/thinkingahead/networked_society/city-life
The Networked Society City Index report continues to explore the correlation between cities’ ICT maturity and their triple bottom line development.
As with the previous studies, this index continues to show a strong correlation between ICT maturity of the city and their social, economic and environmental progress. In this report, New York City tops the overall ranking followed by Stockholm, London and Singapore.
The Networked Society City Index aims to develop a comprehensive evaluation of cities’ ICT maturity and their triple bottom line development. Through a series of reports we have analyzed 25 urban areas around the world from a city, citizen, and now, business perspective.
Patrik Regårdh from Ericsson’s Networked Society Lab says: "We see the individual – rather than city institutions or businesses – as the drivers of development resulting from ICT maturity. Governments follow by adapting to citizens’ changing behavior, while businesses primarily adopt ICT innovations to increase internal efficiency. More importantly, government decisions help steer the business sector’s ICT development. Therefore, changes in policy, regulation and planning, paired with research and support for taking risks and funding, are some of the key factors for driving progress. These factors are crucial in helping organizations of all sizes to connect, collaborate and compete more effectively."
Not only do we overestimate how easy it is to replace humans, replacing them is often neither desirable nor the best use of AI. A better way to think about the future of AI is interlacing its strengths with those of humans.
Autonomous vehicles are often posed as reducing human interaction with vehicles to a minimum. While they will take more of the cognitive load of driving off humans, in many cases it is more useful to think of a human-machine collaboration.
Mobile Technology had a deep impact on many areas of our daily life in the last couple of years. This presentations seeks to provide quick insight into the state of mobile technology in education and learning. It covers corporate learning, personal learning and key trends for the future.
Five Disruptive Technologies and Their Impact on Connecticut's JobsBillKelvie
Technology disruption will cause the loss of 47% of jobs according to a recent Oxford study. This research looks at five technologies which will drive this wrenching change: Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Vehicles, Electronic Commerce, Internet of Things and Robotics. It examines the impact on CT but is very applicable to the United States as well.
What's Next? Megatrends Shaping Tomorrow's Society and Rebooting DemocracyNino Lo Cascio
Megatrends Shaping Tomorrow's Society & Rebooting Democracy;
- IT Industrialisation
- Information Explosion
- "Everyware" - The Mobile Internet
- Natural UI
- Aging Population
- Digital Natives
- New emerging democracy model
- Scenarios 2020
Delivering emergency medical services: research, application, and outreachLaura Albert
Laura McLay's slides from the German Operations Research Society Conference for the presentation entitled "Delivering emergency medical services: research application, and outreach"
A presentation in March 2012 presented at the Ramathibodi Hospital Administration School, Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University in Bangkok, Thailand. Presentation partly in English and partly in Thai.
The Citizen, Not the Government, Should Be at the Center of Smart City Design. Learn what defines a smart city, how to build a smart city, and who're the leading brands.
This presentation highlights the main challenges and opportunities related to Smart City, a helpful guide for Companies and Institutions to move forward on this topic.
Short presentation about smarter cities and why data scientist are in for the treat - having the sexiest jobs in the world. Presented on the Smarter Planet Comes To You tour @ Copenhagen University campus on May 21, 2013
OECD Digital Economy Outlook 2017: Setting the foundations for the digital tr...innovationoecd
The Digital Economy Outlook 2017 shows how Internet infrastructure and usage varies across countries and firms in the OECD area. It looks at policy implications of the digital transformation as well as a wide array of trends. Report available at http://oe.cd/deo2017 - See also the OECD Going Digital project: www.oecd.org/going-digital
G20 “Digital Economy” Task Force Meeting - Andrew Wyckoffinnovationoecd
The OECD Background Report: “Key Issues for the Digital Transformation in the G20”. G20 “Digital Economy”
Task Force Meeting, 13 January 2017, Berlin, Germany
The white paper discusses the history, risks, advantages and disadvantages of Smart Cities with a focus on its economic benefits, cost of implementation and challenges. It includes a case study of Smart City development in Dubai.
Content:
– Executive Summary
– What is a Smart City?
– History
– Advantages
– Disadvantages
– Challenges and Keys to Successful Implementation
– Risks
– Economic Benefits
– Cost of Implementation
– Building Blocks
– Expert Opinion
– Case Study
– Future
– Conclusion
4 External Forces Accelerating the Smart City ModelDialexa
Smart cities may seem like a novel idea for now, but they’re becoming more of a necessity than people might think. For companies looking to capture the potential of the IoT market, it’s essential to understand the forces driving the need for smart cities as well as the trends that will give rise to new market leaders.
Urbanization trends have created a ripple effect of external forces that will affect businesses moving forward. The following 4 external forces that will create tangible opportunities for smart city innovation in the coming years.
Full write-up: https://by.dialexa.com/4-external-forces-accelerating-smart-city-model
Thoughts on the Future of Mobility (Dec 2016)Cornel Chiriac
In Dec 2016 I took a deeper dive into the mobility space and synthesized some thoughts in the following presentation. It covers the drivers for change, a view on the future state, and who will be the winners and losers. The presentation includes thoughts on how the world is changing, what does the future hold for how people will move around and fulfil their needs for transportation and mobility.
The presentation is built upon research by leading consultancies, aggregated and augmented with my thoughts on the topic. The presentation is high-level and is meant to be presented in-person rather than read as a stand-alone, exhaustive paper. It is meant as starting point — see the list of sources for in-depth reading.
Digital Twin Cities are advanced urban areas where physical and digital realms are integrated, allowing for data-driven management, intelligent services, and interactive systems. READ MORE
A connected city brings benefits to the residents and the municipal agencies and departments that serve them. For instance, smart lighting is more efficient, saving substantial costs to the city which can be passed down to the residents, and it also provides added safety and security. Connected cars and street lights can enable traffic managers to control traffic lights to optimize the flow of traffic in the most congested areas. From services to safety a smart, connected city, will be a successful and economically sound city.
MassIntelligence 2018: How to Rapidly Prototype an AI SolutionMassTLC
Dr. Ames discusses how new tools and technologies in AI are disrupting the traditional AI workflow. She shares pragmatic and tangible recommendations for building an AI solution (faster, better and smarter) and shares new tools on the market today to help you rapidly prototype your AI Solution.
MassIntelligence 2018: Connecting the Nation's Top Fishing PortMassTLC
Ed Anthes-Washburn, Executive Director of the New Bedford (MA) Port Authority, details how the port's data bank can be used to protect fishing resources while providing fishermen with a financial asset
MassIntelligence 2018: Transportation & Mobility, Alex WyglinskiMassTLC
Transportation is one of the most fundamental aspects facing humanity around the world. Advances in the automotive industry will allow all individuals to travel in a variety of conditions. Our panel of experts will discuss the role AI currently plays, what is being deployed in vehicles today, and what is on the horizon, both in and outside of the vehicles.
Andres Corrada-Emmanuel - Ground Truth Problems in BusinessMassTLC
Ground truth for data is frequently missing in business. It is either
unavailable, expensive to get, or private. This talk focuses on the
ubiquity of this problem in today’s world in which more and more of the data
production flows require Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence
algorithms. How can we measure the accuracy of our algorithms/robots
when curated data is scarce or missing? We offer a universal
suggestion to solving these problems – bypass the need for detailed
knowledge of the ground truth for your data by estimating directly the
statistics of interest for research and business development. We
suggest that a future with smart robots will require that they measure
their own errors so they can function autonomously from humans.
We illustrate this approach with four real-world examples
Focusing multiple aerial maps into a precise final map – ground truthunknown.
Studying the dynamics of data flows in a large ad-tech database withHyperLogLog – ground truth expensive.
Measuring the accuracy of a unique web ID service (super cookie)without user identity – ground truth private.
Measuring the accuracy of binary classifiers – ground truth unknown.
MassTLC product launch campaign strategies, Jason Baudreau, NetBrainMassTLC
In June of 2018, MassTLC's product marketing peer group met to discuss product launch campaign strategies. Jason Baudreau from NetBrain facilitated one of the conversations, here is his presentation.
MassTLC product launch campaign strategies, ben austin, Carbon BlackMassTLC
In June of 2018, MassTLC's product marketing peer group met to discuss product launch campaign strategies. Ben Austin from Carbon Black facilitated one of the conversations, here is his presentation.
Allison MacLeod, Sr. Director of Demand Gen at Rapid7 presented "Making Predictive Analytics Work" at the MassTLC sales and marketing conference, March 2016
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
As shown in this chart, skills and knowledge are already having a significant impact on economic growth and are changing the nature of economic activity amongst cities. Over the past decade, a global shift toward a knowledge-based economy has accelerated dramatically. Superior talent – embodied in higher education, training, skills, creativity, aptitude, innovation capacity, and the cultural and social skills of the workforce – is rapidly becoming the key driver of economic growth and activity. For instance, Figure above shows the growing importance of higher-quality skills and education in economic development between 1999 and 2007, which includes the economic slowdown of 2001 to 2002. Using data on over 350 regions in the OECD countries, the figure shows that this shift to new reality or new economy is linked to higher education of the workforce (which acts as a proxy for traditional measurement of human capital) Increasing contribution of the knowledge- and skills-intensive sectors to overall economic activity; and Corresponding rise in the levels of prosperity, driving the dramatic rise in the middle classes around the world. As economies around the world compete for talent and knowledge, there is a tidal wave of change that is taking place in the global economic system: the ‘bricks-and-mortar’ economic growth of the past is now becoming replaced by the ‘brains and aptitude’ economy of the future. Our data also suggest that the trend toward more skills and knowledge-intensive growth resists recessionary shocks. This conclusion is further supported by evidence from the latest recession, during which higher-skilled workers had lower unemployment rates. For example, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows that between the beginning of 2008 and the end of 2009, the unemployment rate for workers with less than a high-school diploma rose from 9 percent to 14.6 percent. The unemployment rate for high-school graduates rose from 5.7 percent to 9.7 percent, while the unemployment rate for those with a completed third-level education and higher increased from 2.6 percent to 4.6 percent – a much smaller rise in absolute terms
The new model of the talent, skills, knowledge, creativity and innovation enabled economy is especially salient for cities which already act as focal points of economic activity and are therefore poised to benefit from the new economy. Globally, almost 50 percent of the total output and jobs of many nations is found in their largest city. For example, Seoul accounts for almost half of South Korea’s GDP; Budapest (Hungary) and Brussels (Belgium) each for approximately 45% of their respective incomes. Guangzhou and Brussels have GDP shares of their national economies that are 5 and 4.4 times higher, respectively, than their share of national populations. Based on GDP per capita adjusted for the cost of living, the top 100 cities worldwide accounted for roughly 25 percent of the world’s GDP in 2005. By 2008 this had increased to over 30 percent In addition, cities around the world are already home to the majority of highly-educated and highly-skilled citizens and are acting as major attractors of internationally mobile workers, in other words, human capital. For example, the Institute for Business Value analysis of the UN data shows that worldwide, there is a strong positive relationship between the degree of regional urbanization and the region attractiveness to internationally mobile human capital . Furthermore, economists and urban planners now know that urban density acts to increase productivity of the workforce and to spread knowledge. (FOR DETAILS SEE APPENDIX, SLIDE 49). Sources: OECD Territorial Reviews: Competitive Cities in the Global Economy. http://www.oecd.org/document/2/0,3343,en_2649_33735_37801602_1_1_1_1,00.html UN Habitat. “State of the world’s cities 2010-2011. Urban trends – Wealth of Cities”, United Nations Human Settlements Programme, March 2010. http://www.unhabitat.org/documents/SOWC10/R6.pdf. PWC http://www.pwc.com/ru/en/press-releases/2009/Emerging-market-city-economies-set-to-rise.jhtml, last accessed April 30, 2010. Institute for Business Value analysis of data from the UN Human Development Report, 2009, http://esa.un.org/migration/index.asp?panel1=2 last accessed April 20,2010.
Increasing global competition for creating an optimal mix of people in the city economy will drive an acute competition for skills, talent and knowledge among regions and cities. Diverse skills, aptitudes and experience, along with different types of available education and training, are becoming crucial contributors to economic growth. In the graph above, we define the degree of diversification of the economy as a combination of: The share of creative professionals in the overall labor force (persons who “regularly have wide discretion in their jobs to use accumulated knowledge to develop, design and deliver new products and services” (Cortright, J. City Vitals, CEOs for Cities, 2006 page 10); The share of ‘young and restless’ workers (‘Young, well-educated workers [who] are among the most mobile people in the nation”, ibid, page 12), and The share of the traded sectors talent (“the percentage of all workers outside of health services, education and government who have a four-year degree or higher education” ibid, page 14). Over time, improved knowledge and diversification of the workforce mean better competitiveness and lead to growth in knowledge intensity. Data for the 50 largest U.S. cities suggests that a more diverse base of citizens, together with knowledge and creativity-intensive sectors, is associated with higher per capita income. According to the IBV forecasts based on the UN data, the next twenty years will see doubling of the stock of highly educated migrants around the world. While most of this change is likely to take place in the mature economies of Europe and North America, by 2020, Asian economies alone (one of the few regions in the world where net demand for foreign skills slightly declined in 1990 to 2000) are expected to attract over 17.5 million new educated migrants – an increase of 77 percent over 2010. A mobile pool of highly skilled workers already exists and is on the move within mature economies – 35 percent of migrants to mature economies have a college/ university degree. Existing data indicates that these workers, unlike past waves of lesser-skilled migrants, do not chase the possibility of opportunity. Instead, they elect to follow specific jobs and make their decisions on location based on complex criteria, including considerations of financial and career returns, as well as quality of life. For cities that succeed in attracting, retaining, creating and enabling higher skills and talent base, this translates into the potential for higher tax revenues and fees that can help address current fiscal constraints. But it also implies increased demand by citizens for new services that reflect the expanding role of middle and upper-middle classes.
The management and operation of transport systems have an important influence on the economy of cities. Well-managed, easily accessible public transportation attracts migrant workers into cities, brings commuters to and from work, and moves goods from where they are produced to where they are consumed. Congestion negatively impacts the quality of life in a city by decreasing personal and business productivity, lowering air quality and creating noise pollution. Congestion is one of the main urban transportation problems faced by almost all cities and incurs significant costs almost all cities and incurs significant costs, ranging from 1.5 to 4 per cent of GDP (see chart). In the United States, congestion in urban areas results in annual costs of 4.2 billion hours of wasted time and $87 billion from wasted fuel and lost productivity. It also affects public safety - globally more than 1.2 million people are killed in transport accidents and there are 50 million road accidents. Urban transport pressures are intensifying. For example, car ownership in Sao Paulo is increasing at the rate of 1,000 cars a day and traffic is growing four times faster than the population in Mumbai, Delhi, Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai and Hyderabad. China’s cities have the fastest growing automobile populations in the world.
International research indicates that the levels and quality of human capital – education, skills, creative and innovation capacity of a city -- are tied to the overall levels of public safety in both mature economies and rapidly developing economies. For example, a recent study based on Brazilian data shows that within urban populations, higher individual education and higher average level of education in the area of residence increase the demand for public safety. In addition, improved public safety improves the business and investment environment. Cities with lower crime and better emergency services will find it easier to attract and retain a diverse and higher quality skilled workforce. They will also be better at enabling workers to be productive by attracting an innovation-enabling ecosystem. For example, in the US, cities with higher crime rates tend to have a lower proportion of employment in high technology services. The deterrent effects of crime and poor public safety on foreign direct investment and domestic entrepreneurship, especially in highly skills-intensive sectors, such as internationally traded services, have been also documented in rapidly developing economies. The chart on this slide shows the importance of efficient and effective public safety for business location decisions - How cities respond to threats to public safety, such as violence and terrorism, are of utmost importance for business location decisions – 37% of respondents said that they have avoided investments in certain territories because of the political violence.
Improving healthcare in cities is an urgent priority. Healthcare demand continues to grow, as urban areas worldwide gain 67 million people a year. But health and well-being are not just crucial components of a city’s overall survival and attractiveness. They are fundamental to the quality and productivity of a workforce – especially a workforce that must do more than show up to work, but must be able to think and innovate at peak capacity at all times in order help the city grow. As the chart on this slide shows, a health index calculated from UN data positively correlates with a higher quality workforce, quality of life and economic development.
Growth for cities in the twenty-first century will increasingly be driven by people – the skills and knowledge of a highly educated, innovative workforce – and by the ability of citizens and city economies to absorb, commercialize and extend innovation. Cities that want to thrive will need to plan, invest and work to improve their core systems with this in mind. But how do cities begin to make such improvements, especially in times of extreme financial constraints? There are five basic steps and consistent guiding principles to help direct them.
City leaders need to decide what their city should be – determine its brand This process should naturally start from identifying the high level objective – For example, this should involve identifying the future city ‘brand’ in terms of economic and social competitiveness by: • Identifying the city’s differentiating strengths that will attract skills, knowledge and creativity. • Creating a strategy that emphasizes these strengths while building on existent potential already developed in the economy. • Prioritize investments in core systems: transport; government services and education; public safety and health; as well as energy, environmental sustainability, urban planning and design in line with the strategy.
With the growing importance of higher skills, talent and knowledge in determining economic growth and activity, it is critical that cities create a skills, creativity and innovation enabling environment. Such an environment manages to: Attract internationally mobile talent by enhancing quality of life services in line with changes in demand. Cities that offer the right environment will be able to attract skills, knowledge and creativity and experience a ‘pull’ of talented and skilled people migrating to these cities (Luis, 2009). • Create a domestic talent base by offering education services and training, and investing in education infrastructure. Cities that invest in people through education and training will have a higher quality stock of skills, talent and knowledge, improving their chances for achieving greater prosperity in the future. There is, for example, a strong positive relationship between enrolment in higher/tertiary education and the level of prosperity achieved. Investment in formal education is a key factor explaining differences in economic performance between countries. Estimates of the gain in income from an additional year of education range from 5% to 15% (Deutsche Bank Research). Benhabib & Spiegel found empirical evidence to suggest a link between education, R&D, technology adoption and growth. • Enable better opportunities for deploying skills and abilities to help citizens realize their potential by using better deployment of data collection and analytics on changes in the labor force and skills supply and demand. In addition to enabling skills and talent, cities will require business and entrepreneurial investment to increase their economies capacity to generate, absorb and commercialize innovation and creativity. • Retain the existing base of talent to reduce potential “brain drain.” In an international competition for skills, knowledge and innovation, successful cities will experience net in-migration while less successful cities will experience outward migration of skilled people. For example, in the UK London and the South East experience large inflows of graduates while some cities in the North of England find it more difficult to retain their graduates. Cities that are unable to retain talent, skills and innovation are experiencing a human capital ‘push’ away from the city (Luis, 2009). Other examples include old industrial cities in the U.S. ‘’Rust Belt’’, where the decline associated with a de-industrialising economy has resulted in people leaving.
The attraction of talent and knowledge-based business has a number of implications for how services are delivered and the city functions. Talented people are demanding citizens, who treasure autonomy and the ability to shape their own lives. This has implications for how services are delivered. Moreover, they want to live in cities that are clean, green, walkable and offer access to travel. In general, highly skilled and educated workers require that services, supplied by cities are Tailored to their specific needs (diversified types of services and delivery modes, such as not just café/restaurant model of catering, but café/restaurant/delivery/pre-order customization etc) Individualized to reflect specific taste preferences and working arrangements (e.g. access to a 24 hour public services assistance for workers on flex time, access to business services for individuals combining several job/entrepreneurship projects) Green and clean in addition to being reliable – for example, IBM Eco-efficiency Jam 2010 has identified a new trend in the modern workforce, Employee 2.0, who are digitally enabled and networked, but also require their workplace and living space to be environmentally sustainable. This new generation of workers does not just expect electricity supply and utilities to be cost-effective and reliable, but also green, eco-efficient and clean. Efficient in addition to being accessible: highly educated and highly skilled workers recognize the significant premium their work commands in the modern workplace. They often combine entrepreneurial endeavours with traditional employment and therefore expect city services to be on-time, on-demand, and cost efficient. Thus, to succeed in the future, cities will need to Optimize their services around the citizen • Begin to shift from standardized, uniform services to a model for the delivery of tailored services that meet individual needs. • Create digital linkage across city core systems and the analysis and actions triggered by patterns in the data. • Develop a clear and transparent system of user fees and charges that reflects the real costs of providing citizen-centric services, thus encouraging both more direct demand for services management by the citizens and lower costs burden on public finances.
Cities must employ systems thinking in all aspects of planning and management • Consider problems, solutions and the value that improvements will create in the context of related and interconnected city systems, not just within the confines of one area of operation. Citizen-centric provision of services will increase overall systems complexity of city services. This implies that going forward, cities will need to introduce continuous, realtime assessments of their core services, new investments and solutions across multiple modes and nodes of delivery. For example, consider this map of Shanghai – which shows city development and growth over 15 years. Black area mark city boundaries in 1988, red areas - 2002. This shows several trends in urban development relating to the importance of deploying systems thinking. Firstly, it shows the scope of the systems and the rate of physical growth which require that all systems and aspects of planning and managements are reflected in the strategic thinking about the future of city services. • Cities need to identify, map and appeal to constituencies essential to the success of city improvements, especially those that may be outside traditional city systems bounds. The new workforce of the future is both highly mobile geographically, but also across different working/living/investing locations. These workers are expecting not only their living arrangements to be closely interconnected with their working environment, but they also expect social mobility and services portability. These new workers are, therefore, represent a new constituency of voters and consumers of public services, no longer separable by their work vs living destinations. In addition, growth of cities physically as the map shows means that over short period of time, constituencies that might be traditionally viewed as being outside the scope of city services today can be incorporated into the city systems. • Focus on system behaviors instead of singular events and examine multiple approaches to changing system behaviors. As various services form a holistic system of services with multiple points of shared resources, demand and systems interactions, the entire system performance must take precedent over individual events. Often, most effective solutions to specific bottlenecks in provision of one service can be found in examining the system of services as a whole. Once again, example of cities like Shanghai are illustrative here. Behavioural aspects of the services provisions in the case of a rapidly expanding city, like Shanghai might be more stable over time than geographic considerations that underpin traditional planning. • Fully leverage the value of data, data analytics and systems thinking across systems by making information widely accessible to citizens. Systemic approach to analysis of services performance is reliant on realtime data collection, analytics and communications. This data is now both, increasingly demanded by citizens (for example, new employees require information about their own workplace and household performance in terms of eco-efficiency), and provides new opportunities for private and public sector services provision (with iTunes-for-data type of models of delivery and analysis offering a new and exciting business opportunity in the future). The unifying nature of data, its invariability across the geography of the city, can act as the major point through which the ever-expanding and changing system of services can interact meaningfully with its customers on the scale of change that is exemplified by world’s leading growth cities, like Shanghai. Image: Source: Boselli (2010) – OECD presentation “La ville est vivante”, Seminar organised by La fabrique de la cité Hamburg, 6-8 April 2010
Clearly, the transition from standardized services to citizen-centric services cannot be achieved overnight. The transition to the provision more citizen-centric services across a city’s core systems places new demands and pressures on a city and requires a deeper understanding of both the needs and patterns of behavior within a city. This requirement can be satisfied by leveraging the vast amounts of real world data collected in cities representing the behaviors of a city’s people and systems, and use it to develop more efficient citizen-centric services and continually enhance services. (According to The Economist, mankind created 150 exabytes (billion gigabytes) of data in 2005. In 2010, it is expected that this number will reach 1,200 exabytes. Source: “The data deluge”, The Economist , February 27, 2010) Technological advances mean that aspects of the operation and development that city managers have previously been unable to measure – and therefore unable to influence – are increasingly being digitized. This instrumentation creates brand new data points about, for example, the efficiency of a city’s water or transport systems. In addition to being instrumented, different parts of a city’s systems can be interconnected, so that information flows between them. With the greater digitization and interconnection of a city’s core systems, the newly gained information can be used for intelligent and informed decision making.
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