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The shopping mall is ingrained in our culture. American families would look forward to fun weekend outings at the local shopping mall. Malls offered exciting new worlds of wondrous discoveries, where anticipations were magically materialized. But the past two decades have brought about a dramatic reversal of fortunes for malls
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"Please set your portable electronic devices, including any mobile phones, to flight mode," boomed the Flight Service Manager as she rushed past my seat. This was my third warning. The aircraft turned onto the runway. With a guilty glance, I continued to feverishly trace words on my phone
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The Digital Cities Summit [https://gpc.stanford.edu/digital-cities-summit-overview] at Stanford University [http://stanford.edu/] brought together an elite group of ~200 global CEOs, SVPs, entrepreneurs, and policy makers. The goal of the conference was to illustrate how disruptive technology is changing the way citizens, government, and commercial organizations interact
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CITYDATA.ai is honored and delighted to be included in the prestigious GovTech 100 [http://www.govtech.com/100/] list for 2018. #AI #BigData #PeopleIntelligence #Geospatial #SmartCities The GovTech 100 is an annual list compiled and published by Government Technology [http://www.govtech.com/] Magazine and eRepublic [http://www.erepublic.
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How STIR changed the trajectory for a SF Bay Area startup In Part One [http://web.lotadata.com/blog/the-civic-tour-of-duty-for-startups/], we elaborated the thought process that led to our participation in the STIR 2016 program. Part Two details our phenomenal journey with STIR and highlights the many reasons why we
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Karen Tay heads up Smart Nation Strategy for the Singapore Government, Prime Minister’s Office. In her second blog post for LotaData, Karen makes the case for technology as the ultimate equalizer. She also writes at www.techandpublicgood.com. The story of income inequality is not new – as lower and
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AWS Smart City Solutions Amazon [https://aws.amazon.com/mp/gctc/] announced today the launch of their new Smart City Solutions Marketplace [https://aws.amazon.com/mp/gctc/]. The launch coincided with the NIST Global City Challenge in Washington D.C. where AWS Vice President Dave McCann took the stage
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> In her first guest blog post for LotaData, Karen Tay talks about strategy and policy for autonomous vehicle deployment in the real world. Karen heads up Smart Nation Strategy for the Singapore Government, Prime Minister’s Office. I live in the Valley now, and it’s impossible to go
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The story of how a SF Bay Area startup embraced government technology and civic innovation Technology startups in the San Francisco Bay Area, in Silicon Valley, the global hot spot for innovation, do not particularly have it easy. Each day, we see, hear and read about the many challenges faced
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Mobile marketers analyze billions of anonymized and aggregated mobile location signals or geo-cookies each day to understand why people are where they are and what is on their minds. > Just like web browsers use cookies for identifying users, location is the geo-cookie for knowing your mobile users in the
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A few weekends ago, across the U.S. and across the world, women marched and protested against the misogyny of Donald Trump. It comes as no surprise that, within the U.S., these marches sprung largely from urban counties and states that voted for Hillary Clinton. FiveThirtyEight [https://fivethirtyeight.com/
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The 2016 U.S. Presidential Election left people on both sides of the political aisle very surprised. Many media outlets, pollsters and political predictors hadn’t seen it coming. Since then, several articles have investigated the relative shock of the election using the frameworks of social media bubbles [https://www.