How geospatial analytics, machine learning going to give impetus to disaster management
As part of the first SAP + Esri Spatial Hackathon, GIS developers, enterprise architects, data scientists, BI developers, and students got together to solve a variety of challenges through the use of geospatial analytics and machine learning technology.
Chinese tech companies turn to games to get kids interested in STEM
It aims to teach students coding by having them play their game and supports Python, JavaScript, Lua, and CoffeeScript.
Why Meituan-Dianping’s Expansion Makes Sense
Here’s how developing world cities can plan for the next half century of rapid urban growth
Cities continue to grow at a rapid rate. Within the 100 Resilient Cities Network, more than half of the cities in Latin America, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa are seeing their population expand by 2 per cent or more annually – the benchmark of rapid urban growth.
3 cities using parks to climate-proof their future
Investments in climate adaptation is a necessary expense for cities that wants to safeguard against the negative impacts of a warming climate. But these investments can also provide cities with substantial environmental, social and economic benefits.