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  • Governing smart cities: policy benchmarks for ethical and responsible smart city development

    World Economic Forum

    This report, Governing Smart Cities, provides a benchmark for cities looking to establish policies for ethical and responsible governance of their smart city programmes. It explores current practices relating to five foundational policies: ICT accessibility, privacy impact assessment, cyber accountability, digital infrastructure and open data. The findings are based on surveys and interviews with policy experts and city government officials from the Alliance’s 36 “Pioneer Cities”. The data and i…

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  • Covid Didn’t Kill Cities. Why Was That Prophecy So Alluring?

    The New York Times

    From the moment U.S. coronavirus cases emerged in the Seattle area and then devastated New York City last spring, sweeping predictions about the future of city life followed. Density was done for. An exodus to the suburbs and small towns would ensue. Transit would become obsolete. The appeal of a yard and a home office would trump demand for bustling urban spaces. And Zoom would replace the in-person connections that give big cities their economic might.

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  • The Parking Garage of the Future

    The New York Times

    Consider all the uses that most drivers usually associate with a parking garage: 1. Parking. That’s about it. Consider also, however, if one could deploy a smartphone or another device not only to find the garage on a maps app but also to ensure that on this rainy night a space is vacant and can be reserved. This is a good thing, because next to the blocklong parking facility is a concert hall, where Billie Eilish will be performing in an hour. Need a ticket for the show? The garage’s app can…

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  • Butlr Closes $7.9M Seed Funding for Breakthrough People-Sensing Platform Using Body Heat to Provide Actionable Spatial Insights for the Built Environment

    Butlr

    Butlr Closes $7.9M Seed Funding for Breakthrough People-Sensing Platform Using Body Heat to Provide Actionable Spatial Insights for the Built Environment    Hyperplane Leads Round with Founder Collective, Union Labs, 500 Startups, SOSV, E14 Fund, Tectonic Ventures, Scott Belsky, Chad Laurans and Sunny Vu    BURLINGAME, CA – 15 July 2021 – Butlr Technologies, Inc, the world’s first and only anonymous, wireless, real-time people sensing platform that simultaneously detects oc…

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  • Soil Connect Founder Talks Shop With David Broomhead

    Construction Equipment Guide

    With thousands of users and more than 185 million yards of material moved through the Marketplace to date, Soil Connect finds itself on the front lines of the burgeoning ConTech industry. Cliff Fetner, Soil Connect founder and CEO, and David Broomhead, co-founder and CEO of Trade Hounds — a mobile app that empowers and connects construction workers across the skilled trades — will talk about growing up in and around the construction industry, it’s day-to-day challenges, and how big ideas, inn…

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  • PART 3 NOW LIVE! Creating New Pathways in Tenant Communication

    CREtech+

    Ross Rudd, Director of Technology and Innovation at Bridge Investment Group discusses how Bridge Investment Group uses technology as a differentiator with specific focus on solar, ESG, and non-invasive safety technology specific to the senior housing vertical.

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  • Updater Acquires Dolly to Provide Users with On-Demand Local Moving and Delivery Service

    Updater

    Updater Acquires Dolly to Provide Users with On-Demand Local Moving and Delivery Service   Transaction advances Updater’s mission to be the go-to destination for consumers to conquer moves of all sizes   NEW YORK (July 13, 2021) – Updater, the leading technology platform powering the relocation industry, today announced the acquisition of Dolly, the leading provider of on-demand local moving and delivery service. This strategic transaction advances Updater’s growth strategy and …

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  • Post-pandemic, the office will now have a whole new look

    CNBC

    Before Shira Berg, 30, heads to her workplace, she reserves a desk in advance. The director at Autumn Communications helped her New York office implement a shared workstation system. With clients that include Amazon, Instacart and Goldbelly, the PR agency doubled in size during the pandemic. But adhering to Covid guidelines with just 27 desks for 45 employees required some coordination

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  • Where the CEO of Compass Found His Direction

    The Wall Street Journal

    When Robert Reffkin started his first business in high school, as a DJ, he offered customers a guarantee. They got as many as 20 requested songs or their money back. Years later, he said he applied that same approach to the management of Compass, a real estate technology company he founded in 2012.

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  • Dropbox is reimagining the workplace with Dropbox Studios

    TechCrunch

    The pandemic has been a time for a lot of reflection on both a personal and business level. Tech companies in particular are assessing whether they will ever again return to a full-time, in-office approach. Some are considering a hybrid approach and some may not go back to a building at all. Amidst all this, Dropbox has decided to reimagine the office with a new concept they are introducing this week called Dropbox Studios….

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