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TM Forum Open Hack winners: Racing to make cities smarter
“The standard has been the highest I have seen at any recent hack”. That is how Joann O’Brien –Vice President, Agile Collaboration, TM Forum– summarized the event that she has been leading: the TM Forum Open Hack 2016, in Nice,...
Equity, Participation and Opportunity at the Heart of a Smart City Data Economy
In tech and business circles, adding the word “economy” to anything is a bit like adding the word “artisanal” to a product description. It sounds impressive, but what does it actually mean? What do we mean when we say...
EuropeanPioneers: fostering ground-breaking business innovation
"After years of corporate business practice, EuropeanPioneers was a culmination of fresh ideas and insights - it was a pleasure to be part of it!" commented Peter Muryshkin, Enterprise Business Analyst and Change Manager,...
UMANICK: Committing to safety for patients and healthcare organisations
The healthcare processes are designed to heal us when we are ill. But unfortunately, there are errors in healthcare processes that harm the patients’ health with new diseases. In fact, the World Health Organization has determined nine...
FIWARE BootCamp VIP Programme
Among virtually 1000 start-ups from different sectors all around the European continent that have been selected to be part of the FIWARE Accelerator Programme since its launch in 2014, only 15 have been entered into the very selective VIP...
FIWARE and TM Forum at the Dawn of the Data Economy
How businesses operate is fundamentally changing. These changes were recently summed up by John Hagel on his blog Edge Perspectives. He talks about how customers increasingly want to pay for usage rather than as part of an upfront...
FIWARE Open Service Platform & the Digital Single Market Strategy
“Open platforms are fully in line with the Digital Single Market objective, and will act as a key driver for the Digitalisation of the European Industry”, stated Commissioner Günther H. Oettinger, at the Closing Plenary session of Net Futures...
FIWARE: Enabling IoT – Big Data Ecosystems
IoT and Big Data are the new wave on the Future Internet. On one hand IoT is enabling the generation of large volumes of data from its mobile connected assets. On the other hand, using Big Data analysis, extra insights, that have not been...
#myFIWAREstory – SOUL-FI and the FIWARE Accelerator Programme
Going through the whole acceleration process, and getting to the market on time “has been a challenge that they have grabbed. They did it! And now they are looking forward to the next one”- That’s how Nuno Varandas –EU...