Made on the Web, designed by us

Based on a recent Forrester survey showing that the majority of people on the Web are willing to co-create, Dion Hinchcliffe, a lead Enterprise Web 2.0 advisor, argues that crowdsourcing is looking like a repeatable, reliable way to outsource work and partner with online communities to create concrete results. Continue reading…

2010 Young Innovators Under 35

Every year, the editors of MIT’s Technology Review magazine lauds 35 innovators under the age of 35 whose inventions and research they find most exciting. Their work–spanning medicine, communications, computing, electronics, nanotechnology, and more–is changing our world. Continue reading…

Reinventing the City to Combat Climate Change­

How the world’s cities develop their infrastructure over the next 30 years will determine the future path of global warming, according to a study conducted for the WWF. The study analyzed data on population, environmental measures, construction and infrastructure investments, and the best practices that successful cities use when tackling the challenge of sustainability. Continue reading…

Portland EcoDistricts Initiative

The EcoDistricts Initiative developed by the Portland Sustainability Institute, in partnership with the City of Portland, is a comprehensive strategy to accelerate sustainable neighborhood development. Continue reading…

Oracle’s Solution for Smart Cities

Oracle aims to provide a complete solution for Smart Cities, by bringing together the best practices and processes from around the world into a solution architecture incorporating the breadth and depth of the Oracle portfolio of open technologies, applications, middleware and BI. Continue reading…

Building Smarter Cities

Puneet Gupta, Vice-President of IBM India and South Asia, points out a number of new solutions that capitalize on instrumented, interconnected and intelligent capabilities, solutions and devices that can be applied to any city: Continue reading…

Video: Smart Amsterdam

Amsterdam, Smart City is collaboration between Amsterdam city, businesses and governments with the aim to show how, now and in the future, energy saving. Continue reading…

PlanIT Valley: An Intelligent City in Portugal

Networking equipment maker Cisco intends to build a sustainable, intelligent and connected city in Portugal. The company will work with Living PlanIT, a startup focused on developing large-scale sustainable technologies for construction projects and cities. Continue reading…

Hybrid Innovation Ecosystems

The geographical expansion of innovation networks globally is giving rise to various forms of hybrid systems of innovation in which established innovation hubs cooperate with agents and organizations scattered all over the world. Any innovation ecosystem can develop a hybrid dimension by using digital / virtual platforms Continue reading…

Venture Capital crisis

The venture capital industry in the UK has been in a period of decline. This has been particularly true for early-stage venture capital. The present report of NESTA provides an update on the venture capital market in 2009, Continue reading…