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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.
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CITYDATA.ai had the distinguished honor of being invited by President Barack Obama's Office of Science and Technology Policy [https://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/ostp] to the White House Smart Cities Roundtable. The event was graced by the CTOs and CIOs of the top 10 cities and
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What do city parks, mobile intelligence, and machine learning have in common? CITYDATA! CITYDATA.ai was featured at STIR [https://startupinresidence.org/] Demo Day in San Francisco last week. We showcased our "People Intelligence" platform for the public sector: smart cities and local government. Many cities have embraced
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The Silicon Valley world of top tech companies and startups often comes under fire for being too male, too white and too wealthy. For several years, the privileged group of tech workers in the Bay has continued to gentrify many San Francisco neighborhoods. Subsequently rising rents and new, high-end restaurants/
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One in five people already block mobile ads. 70 million Americans will turn on an ad blocker on their mobile device in 2016. That number will jump to 87 million in 2017, per eMarketer. On a global scale, the numbers are staggering. PageFair revealed that 418 million mobile users already