According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) absolute energy-related carbon dioxide emissions declined 3.8 percent in 2012 at the same time the U.S. GDP grew by 2.8% in 2012.. For comparison from 1996 through […]
I blogged earlier about Google joining LocationTech as a strategic member (together with IBM, Oracle, Boundless( was OpenGeo), and Actuate). After lining up key strategic members, the next step was to attract open source geospatial […]
Every once in a while a project comes along that is so worthwhile, that you wonder why it hadn’t been done years ago. CyArk uses 3D-laser scanning and other reality-capture technologies to create a 3D-digital […]
The global urban population is growing by 65 million annually. More than half of the world’s population is already living in cities, and these cities generate more than 80 percent of global GDP. It is […]
I blogged about an insightful article about open source business models posted by Mike Olson, Chief Strategy Officer at Cloudera. Mike Olson makes the case that there were very few successful large stand-alone open source […]
The World Economic Forum (WEF) annually publishes The Global Competitiveness Report which assesses the economic competitiveness of countries ranks them compared to 140 national economies. The WEF relies on data sourced from international organizations and […]
The International Energy Agency (IEA) has released its first report on energy efficiency. It estimates that investment in energy efficiency worldwide totalled US$ 300 billion in 2011. In 11 IEA member countries (Australia, Denmark, Finland, […]
Earlier this year I was invited to give a keynote at the South Africa Surveying and Mapping Indaba. PositionIT has just published the paper Geospatial Information Technology Enables Vertical Industry Solutions based on my keynote. […]