I have blogged on several occasions about the American Society for Civil Engineers (ASCE) infrastructure Report Card which accesses 15 types of infrastructure. Since the last ASCE Report Card in 2005, the grades have not […]
The FCC will announce its National Broadband Plan (NBP) next week. The objective of the NBP is to provide universal broadband access as well as encourage governments and industry to use broadband in health care, […]
Autodesk has announced that starting this month, software download will replace CDs and DVDs as the default method of delivering software upgrades to most subscription customers worldwide. If you would prefer DVDs or CDs, you […]
Renewable Energy Drives Investment in Transmission At the Transmission Summit in Washington DC last week, John Caldwell from the Edison Electric Institute referred to an Edison sponsored 2008 research report Transforming America’s Power Industry, The […]
Last May the City of Vancouver passed a motion endorsing open data, open standards, and leveling the playing field for open source software procurement. In January the City of Edmonton opened Edmonton’s open data catalogue, […]
Globally the investment required in the energy sector between 2003-2030 has been estimated to be $16 trillion, according to the International Energy Association (IEA). Transmission and distribution will account for more than half of this […]
I was fortunate to be invited to be a moderator at the 2nd Annual Asset Management for Energy and Utilities Conference in Toronto last week. This conference is one of the most interesting I have […]
According to Gartner mobile application stores’ worldwide download revenue exceeded $4.2 billion in 2009, up from zero a few of years ago, and will grow to $29.5 billion by the end of 2013. The revenue […]