By: Yonatan Avivi and Kenneth Kou If you were a smallholder farmer at harvest season in rural Rwanda, getting your … More
Tag: DigitalTransformation
Distributed Ledger Technology: The Key to Reducing Global Inequality?
By Marvin Amberg, Nuri John Atay, Steve Isaacs & Christine Onyung “Indeed, the distribution of wealth is too important … More
Why EdTech Needs a Rethink
(By Syed Sadaf Sultan and Ee Phoa Hui) Many say that EdTech is the Fintech of the future. The $5 … More
Tuliu: Finding new ways of land valuation and transfer in China
Company Background Tuliu is both a land transfer online platform and a land value evaluation system. It created China’s … More
The solution for food supply chain traceability? Blockchain!
In 2015, Chipotle faced one of the most critical situation in its history, as 55 customers got infected by E.Coli … More
Precision farming
The agricultural sector is experiencing a revolution thanks to a set of new digital technologies that allow farmers to improve … More
How blockchain is inspiring the cultural industries?
Written by Louie Liu and Ellen Xu Anyone who follows the cultural industries knows there’s a long list of players … More
Blockchain rhapsody – rethinking the music value chain
Written by Giovanna Dughera Blockchain, the technology behind Bitcoin, is an open-source distributed database using state-of-the-art cryptography that may facilitate … More
Insurance industry turning change into opportunity
The insurance business model of assessing risk, collecting premiums and paying claims hasn’t changed since ages. The thing that has … More
“Virtual Doctors” in Healthtech
A 2015 World Bank report found that 400 million people do not have access to essential health services. In the … More
Blockchain | A Catalyst for African Development
By Thy-Diep Ta and Lindsay Van Landeghem Blockchain, a transparent, tamper-proof ledger that tracks and stores bitcoin transactions internationally, is … More
Blockchain- Not Just Bitcoin
Can the “Internet of Value by Blockchain (IoVB)” project be the new environmentally and socially sustainable form of supply chain … More
Precision agriculture is the future – or is it?
(Written by princesses Loes Van Egmond and Iciar Ania) With an ever-growing world population, the world will need to produce … More
Blockchain and Real Estate
Written by Ernar Sagatov, Krystal Cho A blockchain is essentially a distributed database of records or public ledger of all … More
Digital You
“Aetna will subsidize Apple Watch in first U.S. Insurer Deal1”, “Google secures patent for glucose-sensing contact lens2”, “Jawbone acquires Mobile … More
Solar innovation in Africa
Tahai Baik, Mortiz Steinle and Sebastien Marlier Africa has leapfrogged the development of fixed phone lines. Only one percent of … More
Utilities and blockchains – flexible energy trading
Written by Natalia Rialucky and Henning Huenteler In the centralized grids of the last century, baseload plants, often fired by … More
Changing the way we store and access medical records
By Sean Ahn and Maximilian Giers Unicef has recently been doing a lot to encourage building ideas around wearables for good causes: … More
Revolutionizing Agriculture with Drone Technology
(Written by Maya Chdid & Chaya Maheshwari) For ages, most of farming has been manual legwork. Labor had to be … More
Centralised or Distributed: where will we generate the electricity that will power the cities of the future?
By 8pm on Tuesday 8th November 2016, Stephen A. Smith was ecstatic; Florida had voted ‘no’ on Amendment 1 by … More
Big data makes farming smarter
(By Nathan Kung & Joshua Von Fange) Food demand is expected to increase by 59%-98% by 2050, driven by growing … More
Digital Transformation in the Logistics Industry
(Written by Nidhi Kapoor Khetarpal & Ankur Ghosh) An orphaned polar bear cub; half a million bottles of vintage French … More
3D Printing in Aerospace: starting to take off
By Helena Prado and Gerasimos Skaltsas // Aerospace has always been a leading industry in R&D and technological advancement, … More
Blockchain and its impact on the accounting/audit industry
Written by HWANG, Johnson and WONG, Anson In the accountancy industry, digitization and “the internet of things” are still in … More