Stockholm is growing. By 2030, estimates say the City of Stockholm will have more than one million inhabitants and the Stockholm-Mälardalen region nearly 3.5 million. We encounter Stockholm’s citizens every day in their daily lives—at the beginning, middle, and end …
Category: This month’s column
The Rise of Intelligent Communities
So very much is at stake as we build, rebuild and design homes and communities for the generation ahead. The need for a more “intelligent” community is logical because we quite simply need a place that provides us with the
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Why do only some companies get venture capital?
As an investor in growth companies in IT and environmental technology for the past 15 years, I often hear that we are so over-cautious that we are anything but venturous as regards our risk appetite in providing capital to start-ups
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What can ICT do for your commute?
There’s a type of ICT known as ITS, which stands for Intelligent Transport Systems & Services, and has a holistic view of ICT use in transport systems. It’s one more abbreviation to keep track of as the train is off …
Mobile innovation and ICT make the world a better place
It is easy to see that cell phones have dramatically changed our standard of living. On the “welfare problems” theme, I remember how my degree of freedom increased when I got my first cell. Suddenly, it was possible to go …
