Exeter City Futures in the city of Exeter, UK has presented its Net Zero Exeter Plan to the city council, which focuses on issues of climate change, transport, energy, housing, and well-being. The Plan sets Read More
The City of Victoria, BC is planting between 50,000 to 75,000 food seedlings in its greenhouses to give to residents in May and June in order to help those looking for more food security. “Some Read More
Rolls-Royce has established an alliance of data analytics experts to help support global governments and businesses to recover from the economic impact of the COVID-19 outbreak. Named Emer2gent, the alliance will seek to combine traditional Read More
New Zealand’s Associate Minister of Transport, Julie Anne Genter, recently announced that the government will provide extra funding to help councils expand footpaths and roll out temporary cycleways to help people keep two meters of Read More
The city of Ann Arbor, MI recently published a draft of its climate action plan – A2Zero – which has the aim of reaching carbon neutrality in the city by the year 2030. A2Zero addresses Read More
The National Science Foundation (NSF), the Department of Energy (DOE), and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have launched the Civic Innovation Challenge – a competition to award research teams with grants that will enable Read More
As part of the new Digital Bridge project, the City of San Francisco, California is installing up to 25 WiFi “SuperSpots” to support students with distance learning during the COVID-19 lock down. The program will Read More
Kogniz Health – based in Silicon Valley, CA – has introduced an AI-enabled camera and software system that scans groups and crowds entering a facility and identifies anyone with an elevated temperature. It is designed Read More
The Jacksonville Transportation Authority (JTA) has partnered with autonomous mobility companies Beep and NAVYA to use unmanned autonomous vehicles (AVs) to facilitate the safe transport of COVID-19 tests collected at a drive-thru testing location at Read More
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has released a report for a metropolitan strategy with seven recommendations for a comprehensive COVID-19 Response. The strategy aims to slow transmission of the novel coronavirus and Read More
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