Information Policy

Moscow clears record snowfall with IoT-enabled snowploughs

New technology installed in Moscow‘s street sweepers, snowploughs, waste trucks and water carts enabled it to clear a record 1.2 million cubic tonnes of snow which fell on the city in early February.

Over 22,000 of Moscow’s communal vehicles have been installed with a unified IoT platform allowing city officials to track routes, control speed, fuel consumption and operation mode of the vehicles. Artificial intelligence generates a daily scope of work for each vehicle based on the weather forecast. The new technology has also reduced fuel consumption, saving the city US$162,000 a month.

The internet is broken. Can this group fix it?

By Mark Scott

LONDON — Paul Fehlinger isn’t a household name like Mark Zuckerberg. But the Paris-based policy wonk has an ambition that’s just as big and far-reaching as the Facebook chief’s digital empire: fixing the internet.

Multi-stakeholders Research Will Boost Africa’s Internet Policy

Emma Okonji

Technology experts from the academia and civil society who gathered for the second colloquium on Internet Policy, organised by the African Academic Network on Internet Policy (AANoIP) in Ibadan recently, stressed the need for a concerted multi-stakeholder approach on research, that will boost internet policy and governance ecosystem in Africa.

2018: A pivotal point in the Internet's development, says Internet Society

In its recently published 2018 Action Plan, the Internet Society, a non-profit organization dedicated to ensuring the open development, evolution and use of the Internet identified the need for heightened security in the Internet of Things (IoT), for increased safeguards to the Net’s routing system and for more communication between various stakeholders and governments to counter forces that compromise the freedom and safety of the Internet today.

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Ranchi: The state cabinet on Thursday approved Rs 420.44 crore to provide high-speed internet connectivity in 11 districts with the aim of hooking up all 5,523 panchayats of Jharkhand by March 2019 under a scheme titled IT Bharat net.

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High-speed internet for villages

Ranchi: The state cabinet on Thursday approved Rs 420.44 crore to provide high-speed internet connectivity in 11 districts with the aim of hooking up all 5,523 panchayats of Jharkhand by March 2019 under a scheme titled IT Bharat net.

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