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Data Residency: Meaning, Laws, & Requirements

Have you heard about data residency? If you haven’t, it’s a concept that determines where different organizations store your data.…

Aug 5, 2020 Yves Mulkers 67M views 4 min read

How to measure the quality of life in smart cities?

From the Internet of Things to the Internet of “meaningful” Things. Nowadays several indicators aim to quantify the smartness of…

May 27, 2019 Yves Mulkers 64M views 2 min read

This Is How the Federal Government Can – and Can’t – Use Census Information

As preparations for the 2020 Census get underway, the threat of an added citizenship question has generated concern about how…

Mar 8, 2019 Yves Mulkers 68M views 2 min read

Data is the new air

In the infancy of any technology, there are going to be teachable moments. Prehistoric man’s mastery of fire didn’t come…

May 29, 2018 Yves Mulkers 16M views 2 min read

Agile business intelligence: 11 ideas to assess your self-service progress

The current excitement about self-service analytics centres around two main areas. The first is the rise of ‘citizen data scientists’,…

Jul 10, 2017 Yves Mulkers 115M views 2 min read

Why data analytics is business-imperative

Imagine a world in which there were no business reception desks or enquiry counter: when you arrive for your business…

May 19, 2017 Yves Mulkers 161M views 3 min read

Building smart cities with the smart citizen approach

The main theme of many Smart Cities conferences nowadays is people. The reason is that the millions of people who…

May 13, 2017 Yves Mulkers 102M views 3 min read

How location data can transform your business

Not far from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, The California Institute of Technology, and scores of startups like UberMedia, you can…

Mar 11, 2017 Yves Mulkers 141M views 2 min read

OpenGov expands to open source, open data

Earlier this year, OpenGov acquired the open data company Ontodia, enabling the government technology company to expand its smart government…

Nov 21, 2016 Yves Mulkers 86M views 2 min read

Can Open Data Keep Politicians In Africa Accountable?

We ran a quick Twitter poll on the iAfrikan account a day before the 2016 Presidential elections asking our followers…

Nov 7, 2016 Yves Mulkers 60M views 3 min read