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Global event launched to solicit opinions on climate investment and finance

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BEIJING, July 2, 2020 — A news report by China.org.cn on a global event launched on July 2 in Beijing to collect new ideas to address challenges in climate investment and finance:

A global event was launched on July 2 in Beijing to collect new ideas from around the world to address challenges in climate investment and finance.

The Climate Investment and Finance Article Call 2020 event was launched at the online ceremony for China’s National Low-carbon Day, which falls on July 2 this year.

Starting from early August, the organizing committee will collect writings on innovative concepts and industrial practices, aiming to address global challenges in climate investment and finance, and to further improve research in the field.

Li Gao, director general of the Department of Climate Change at the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, delivered a keynote speech at the event, inviting scholars from both China and abroad to contribute new thoughts and share their practices.

Li Gao delivers a keynote speech at the event, July 2, 2020.
Li Gao delivers a keynote speech at the event, July 2, 2020.

 

The authors or teams are required to submit their works before Jan. 10, 2021. Upon submission, in February, an expert panel will select the best works and recommend them to cooperating journals for publication. A selection of the top authors or teams will then be invited to participate in the 2021 China Climate Investment and Finance International Forum as guest speakers to discuss relevant issues.

Li, who is also the director of Climate Investment and Finance Association (CIFA) at the Chinese Society for Environmental Sciences, said the expert panel will adopt a rigorous process in selecting and recommending papers.

The expert panel consists of professionals from more than 20 top universities around the world as well as 12 prestigious journals in the fields of finance, economics, energy and environmental research.

The reviewing committee is co-chaired by Xie Zhenhua, president of the Climate Change and Sustainable Development Institute of Tsinghua University, and special advisor on Climate Change Affairs of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, and Ernesto Zedillo, director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, professor in the field of international economics and politics, and former president of Mexico. 

Xie Zhenhua delivers a speech at the event, July 2, 2020.
Xie Zhenhua delivers a speech at the event, July 2, 2020.

 

According to Xie, “The expert panel will conscientiously review and select a collection of outstanding articles which meet an international standard of excellence, generate innovative findings, and potentially deliver policy influence.”

Zedillo added, “I encourage all prospective respondents to this call to apply their talents to produce research and concrete ideas that can be translated into more enlightened and effective policies.”

Ernesto Zedillo delivers a speech at the event, July 2, 2020.
Ernesto Zedillo delivers a speech at the event, July 2, 2020.

 

D’Maris Coffman, deputy chief of the events’ reviewing committee and director of University College London’s Bartlett School of Construction & Project Management, said: “The world requires fundamental shifts in global climate investment and finance, from billions to trillions. Our climate policy needs to be transformed to maximize the real and additional climate benefit and to mobilize private sector financing.”

The event is jointly initiated and organized by the CIFA, University of Edinburgh Business School, the Bartlett School of Construction and Project Management of University College London, School of Management and Economics at the Beijing Institute of Technology, and the Institutes of Science and Development at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. It is co-organized by the China Energy Conservation and Environmental Protection Group, China Central Depository & Clearing Co., Ltd., Guangdong Reduce Carbon Technology Co., Ltd., Beijing Guohuan Rhein Environmental Co., Ltd., and China International Engineering Consulting Corporation.

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Neusoft Ranks Top in China Healthcare IT Solutions Market for Ten Consecutive Years

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SHENYANG, China, July 2, 2020 — Recently, International Data Corporation (IDC) has released the China Market Shares of Core Hospital Management Systems 2019: Upgrading Core Systems to Support Healthcare Digital Transformation. According to this report, Neusoft took the first place in China core hospital management systems solutions market in 2019 and topped the ranking of China healthcare IT solutions market for the tenth consecutive year, continuing leading the healthcare informatization construction in China.

In the healthcare informatization sector, Neusoft is a leading provider of intelligent healthcare integrated solutions in China. With the largest client base in the industry in China as well as the best practices in various sub-sectors, Neusoft is striving to facilitate the rapid development of healthcare informatization and promoting China’s healthcare system reform. Neusoft is also the first large provider to have launched core hospital management systems, with leading market shares as well as advanced concepts and products.

With over two decades’ devotion to the healthcare sector, Neusoft consistently commits itself to utilizing information technologies to promote the harmonious development of the healthcare ecosystem. Nowadays, Neusoft’s healthcare business has covered hospital informatization, health insurances, medical equipment, cloud hospitals, medical big data and intelligence, health and medical education, medical IoT and 5G, etc., and Neusoft has built a sustainable IT-centric ecosystem.

In the future, Neusoft will continue to empower the healthcare industry through software. Neusoft will keep promoting the integration of information technology and the healthcare, make the new technologies like artificial intelligence, blockchain, cloud computing, big data, internet of things become new medical elements, and build a sustainable healthcare ecosystem for creating more value for the society, industry and clients.

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Cloud4C, World’s Leading Cloud Managed Services Provider Launches its Operations in South Korea

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SEOUL, South Korea, July 2, 2020 — Cloud4C, the world’s leading cloud Managed Services announced launch of its operations in South Korea. Cloud4C delivers a broad array of services including cloud migration to hyperscalers, hybrid cloud, cloud managed services, IT modernization services, disaster recovery services and managed security services among others. The company serves 60 of the Fortune 500 Global Multinationals and has presence in 25 countries and 50 locations.

Cloud4C, World’s leading Cloud Managed Services Provider, launched its South Korean Operations
Cloud4C, World’s leading Cloud Managed Services Provider, launched its South Korean Operations

Businesses in South Korea who are looking to embark on digital transformation or IT modernization journey will benefit immensely from Cloud4C service portfolio. Cloud4C is cloud managed services provider with key strategic partnerships with SAP, AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, while it brings its own public cloud platform. It has helped SAP launch its SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud across 25 countries and serves world renowned global brands.

Sridhar Pinnapureddy, Founder and CEO, Cloud4C said, "We are delighted to launch our operations in South Korea which is world’s 12th largest economy with a unique geographic position and pursues business-friendly policies with tremendous potential for growth. We plan to enable businesses in South Korea through our wide spectrum of services to help them address their critical business needs through differentiated offerings such as banking community cloud, SAP community cloud, cloud migration services to hyperscale cloud providers and cloud managed services." He further added, "We bring to South Korea our experience of working with 4,000 enterprises from across the world to help CIOs embark on their digital transformation and help them achieve their technology and business goals. We plan to partner with South Korean CIOs to help them play a larger role in evolving their IT strategies and establish digital Leadership."

Cloud4C plans to set up Cloud4C Academy in South Korea in partnership with the Government and leading IT Universities to train and nurture local talents with adequate industry exposure. "We aim to train the youth in South Korea and prepare them for a bright future in cloud computing to help them gain employment and eventually assume leadership roles in the industry," said Sridhar Pinnapureddy.

The company has recently appointed Peter Seo, Country Head and Vice President, he will be based out of Seoul and provide leadership and growth direction to the organization.

Peter Seo said, "Leveraging the existing alliances as Premium Supplier of SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud, we aim to be the number one SAP partner in the region. As an Azure Expert MSP, Advanced Consulting partner of AWS, Managed services partner of GCP and OCI, we have the groundwork to build a collaborative ecosystem to deliver stellar business outcomes for organization in South Korea, China and Japan looking to modernize their IT environment."

About Cloud4C

Cloud4C is the World’s leading Cloud Managed Services Provider serving 4,000 customers in 25 Countries and 50 locations including 60 of the Fortune 500 Global Multinationals. The company provides cloud (public, private, hybrid) and community cloud services (Banking Community Cloud, SAP Community Cloud), cloud migration on hyperscalers such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, end to end cloud managed services, disaster recovery services, managed security services.

The company plans to expand its geographical footprint to 80 countries and 160 locations worldwide in the next 36 to 48 months.

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ESET promotes Parvinder Walia to President of Asia Pacific & Japan

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SINGAPORE, July 2, 2020 — ESET, a global leader in cybersecurity, has named Parvinder Walia as President of Asia Pacific & Japan (APJ) to oversee the continued expansion and development of the business in the region. Parvinder will be responsible for driving ESET’s go-to-market strategy and accelerating business expansion in the region. He succeeds Lukas Raksa, Chief Operating Officer for Asia Pacific (APAC).

ESET promotes Parvinder Walia to President of Asia Pacific & Japan
ESET promotes Parvinder Walia to President of Asia Pacific & Japan

Parvinder is a seasoned sales and marketing leader and has held several roles at ESET over the past decade. This new role builds on his previous responsibilities as Sales and Marketing Director for APAC Region, where he drove the sales strategy for ESET’s channel driven business model, expanded the partner network, and led the sales and marketing teams in the region.

"Parvinder has been instrumental in driving our business success and expansion in the APAC region over the past decade," said Miroslav Mikuš, Chief Sales Officer of ESET. "We are proud of Parvinder’s career progression and achievements. It is a testament to ESET’s culture of developing internal talent. I am confident that Parvinder has the right mix of experience and leadership qualities to drive the next phase of growth in a rapidly evolving business environment."

"I am looking forward to working closely with our customers and partners at a time when cybersecurity is more important than ever. As work from home becomes the new normal, businesses must rethink their cybersecurity strategy," said Parvinder. "Helping our partners and customers navigate through the uncertainty is the first priority for me."

Parvinder joined ESET as Channel Marketing Manager for APAC in April 2009 and was based in Sydney, Australia. He moved to Singapore in 2010, when ESET’s regional office in Singapore was established. Prior to working with ESET, he was with CA Technologies managing APAC accounts for internet security products. Parvinder has a double Master’s in Business Administration and Engineering Management from the University of Technology Sydney.

About ESET

For more than 30 years, ESET® has been developing industry-leading IT security software and services for businesses and consumers worldwide. With solutions ranging from endpoint and mobile security to encryption and two-factor authentication, ESET’s high-performing, easy-to-use products give consumers and businesses the peace of mind to enjoy the full potential of their technology. ESET unobtrusively protects and monitors 24/7, updating defenses in real time to keep users safe and businesses running without interruption. Evolving threats require an evolving IT security company. Backed by R&D centers worldwide, ESET is the first IT security company to earn 100 Virus Bulletin VB100 awards, identifying every single "in-the-wild" malware without interruption since 2003. For more information, visit www.eset.com or follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.

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TUV Rheinland: Cyber risks for industrial plants underestimated

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TUV Rheinland and Ponemon Institute publish worldwide study on the Cybersecurity of industrial plants. All information at https://go.tuv.com/otsurvey-2020

COLOGNE, July 2, 2020 — Cyberattacks can threaten the industrial facilities of companies even more than their IT systems. However, a holistic view of the security of industrial plants is often lacking. This is a key finding of a recent study on security in industrial companies by TUV Rheinland and the Ponemon Institute.

Operational Technology in the sights of the hackers

Operational Technology (OT) is the main target for cyberattacks on industrial plants. These are devices and systems that control or monitor industrial processes – such as motors, pumps or valves. "OT systems differ in function and technology from classic corporate IT. At the same time, successful cyberattacks on OT systems often cause particularly high levels of damage to the companies affected", explains Petr Láhner, Executive Vice President of the Business Stream Industrial Service & Cybersecurity at TUV Rheinland. "We have therefore placed the Cybersecurity of Operational Technology at the center of our study, following on from the findings of the first study on this subject in 2019".

Measures for IT and OT systems not coordinated

For the "2020 Study on the State of Industrial Security", the independent market research company Ponemon Institute surveyed more than 2,200 cybersecurity experts worldwide from the automotive, health and pharmaceutical, logistics and transport, mechanical engineering, oil and gas and utility sectors. The Ponemon Institute, based in Traverse City, Michigan, is dedicated to independent research on information and privacy management in companies.

The following results show how much cyberattacks endanger OT systems:

  • More than half of the respondents (57 percent) say that their companies firmly expect attacks on OT systems.
  • Almost half (48 percent) are convinced that cyber threats pose a greater risk to OT systems than to the IT environment.
  • Almost two thirds (63 percent) of those surveyed stated that security measures for IT and OT systems are not coordinated in their companies.
  • For almost half of the respondents (47 percent), cyber threats to OT systems have increased over the past year. These include attacks such as phishing, social engineering and extortion software ("ransomware").

"From our point of view, it is crucial that companies tailor their cybersecurity measures to the specific requirements in Operational Technology. For example, some control systems may have limited cybersecurity controls in place and could subsequently be vulnerable to cyber threats. To do this, companies have to assess their OT cyber risk and invest time and money for best effect. It is alarming that in the view of the experts surveyed, there are too few financial or professional resources available for OT security. In addition, a holistic view of the security of industrial plants is often still lacking. In an increasingly networked world, industrial plants are only really secure if both their IT and OT cybersecurity is addressed", Láhner says.

The "Study 2020 on the state of industrial safety" is available for free download at https://go.tuv.com/otsurvey-2020.

About TUV Rheinland

TUV Rheinland stands for safety and quality in almost all areas of business and life. Founded almost 150 years ago, the company is one of the world’s leading testing service providers with more than 21,400 employees and annual revenues of 2.1 billion euros. TUV Rheinland’s highly qualified experts test technical systems and products around the world, support innovations in technology and business, train people in numerous professions and certify management systems according to international standards. In doing so, the independent experts generate trust in products as well as processes across global value-adding chains and the flow of commodities. Since 2006, TUV Rheinland has been a member of the United Nations Global Compact to promote sustainability and combat corruption. Website: www.tuv.com

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Geek+ Helps Streamline Winit’s Warehouse Operations

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Winit Cincinnati Fulfillment Center deploys Geek+ Picking robots to meet the uptick in online sales

SAN DIEGO, July 2, 2020 — Geek+, a global AMR leader, announces its commitment to provide smart logistics solutions for enabling efficient and flexible operations to Winit, an integrated supply chain solutions provider for cross-border e-commerce serving industry leaders like eBay, for its fulfillment center located Cincinnati, Ohio.

With an inventory subject to a wide variety of products, massive SKUs, and a rapid increase in online sales, Winit has been looking for solutions that can streamline their warehouse operations, mitigate against management issues due to high turnover of warehouse workers, and enable flexible yet affordable scaling of operations.

Rick DeFiesta, Director of Business Development and Partnership at Geek+, said: “We are pleased that Winit has chosen our Goods-to-Person solution for optimizing their warehouse operations and we are confident that our P-series robots will exceed expectation to increase picking efficiency, simplify processes, and reduce management issues.”

Winit Cincinnati Fulfillment Center will be expanding it’s already 6,200 square meters (66,736 square feet) of robotics warehouse space to 11,000 square meters (118,403 square feet). In turn, the company sees great opportunities in the Geek+ Robot-as-a-Service (RaaS) Model, which provides affordable and tailored solutions that help companies flexibly and quickly scale their operations to meet fluctuations in demand.

“We look forward to working with Geek+ and are very happy to be deploying their smart logistics solutions as they provide an affordable option that can enable a flexible expansion of our operations and mitigate against challenges associated with a shortage of warehouse workers,” said Xiaoliang Luo, Vice President of Operation at Winit. “With an automated warehouse, we will ensure a smooth operation by reducing the COVID-19 impact for our fulfillment center”.

Geek+ Goods-to-Person Picking System, empowered by Geek+ proprietary smart algorithms, uses P-series warehouse robots to eliminate redundant walking of the picking workers, improve picking accuracy, and reduce labor intensity. The AI-driven system features robot task management, combined order optimization and picking, inventory management, dynamic wave optimization, and adjustments of inventory layouts for maximum efficiency.

About Geek+

Geek+ is a global technology company leading the intelligent logistics revolution. We apply advanced robotics and AI technologies to realize flexible, reliable and highly-efficient solutions for warehouses and supply chain management. Geek+ counts 300 global customers and has deployed more than 10,000 robots worldwide. Founded in 2015, Geek+ has over 800 employees and is headquartered in Beijing, with offices in Germany, the UK, the US, Japan, Hong Kong and Singapore.

For more information, please visit: https://www.geekplus.com/

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Awards USD$1 Million Prize, HUAWEI HMS App Innovation Contest Goes Global

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  • Top developers across five regions invited to create innovative apps by integrating with HMS Core, a full suite of Huawei’s Chipset-Device-Cloud capabilities
  • USD$1 million total in cash prizes, funded by the Shining-Star Program, on offer to developers worldwide in flagship contest
  • Prizes on offer include HUAWEI AppGallery promotional resources to reach 650 million Huawei device users and more

SHENZHEN, China, July 1, 2020 — Developers around the world are being invited to put their skills to the test on a global stage with the launch of HUAWEI HMS App Innovation Contest, Apps UP, launching on 30th June.

The inaugural contest will see entrants compete against other experienced developers to create innovative apps that improve and help navigate everyday life. Apps UP contest provides a platform for developers in each of the five competition regions: Europe, Asia Pacific, Middle East & Africa, Latin America and China to showcase their skills and innovation.

USD$1 Million Innovation Incentives Award From Shinning-Star Program
USD$1 Million Innovation Incentives Award From Shinning-Star Program

HMS Core integrates Huawei’s Chipset-Device-Cloud capabilities, providing core capabilities to developers such as Machine Learning Kit, HiAI, AR Engine and more. Developers can easily achieve direct access and global all-scenario intelligence distribution across all devices by integrating their apps with HMS Core.

With AppGallery’s continued growth and position as one of the top three global app marketplace, winners of the Apps UP contest will get the chance to have their apps promoted on HUAWEI AppGallery, making them accessible to hundreds of millions of device users from more than 170 countries and regions, combined with the benefits of AppGallery Connect, providing one-stop service open platform for mobile apps, which help developers innovate and carry out efficient operations.

Prizes and wider benefits also include:

  • USD$1 million total funded by the Shining-Star Program, in cash prizes in the following categories: Best App, Best Game, Best Social Impact App, Most Popular App, Honorable Mention
  • Opportunity to compete on a global stage and showcase technical ability using leading HMS Core
  • Discussion with industry experts and Apps UP expert judging panel
  • Free access to Huawei Developers events, courses and certifications

To celebrate the launch of the contest, Huawei hosted a live virtual event on Tuesday 30th June at 12:00 UTC+1 to showcase what’s in store for developers. The event marked the opening of the global contest including talks from Zhang Ping‘an, President of Consumer Cloud Service, Huawei Consumer Business Group, successful app developers, and HMS Core experts.

Zhang Ping’an, President of Consumer Cloud Service, Huawei Consumer Business Group, delivered a keynote Speech titled "HMS Innovate For All"
Zhang Ping’an, President of Consumer Cloud Service, Huawei Consumer Business Group, delivered a keynote Speech titled “HMS Innovate For All”

Examples of the integration with HMS Core showed at the launch event include art app Sketch AR, an application that uses HUAWEI HiAI to create a smarter app for virtual art creation. Another is StorySign, which integrates with Machine Learning Kit and blends image recognition, HUAWEI HiAI Optical Character Recognition (OCR) translate popular children’s books into sign language to ensure deaf children can enjoy story time.

Innovate For All
Innovate For All

Commenting on the launch of the HUAWEI HMS App Innovation Contest, Apps UP, Zhang Ping‘an said: “The number of talented developers of HMS ecosystem is growing. The work that developers do is integral to so much of our daily life. Through the apps they create, they empower us to seamlessly navigate the world around us. At Huawei, we want to invite developers to join us in building a better future and turn their ideas into reality using HMS Core offered by Huawei Mobile Services.”

How to enter

To enter, participants must register an account on the official website, https://developer.huawei.com/consumer/en/digix/appsup  between 30 June – 30 August 2020 and sign up either as an individual or as a team of up to three members. All apps must be developed integrating HMS Core and submitted on the contest official website before 18:00 UTC+8 on 30 August 2020, where a panel of regional industry experts will score each entry on social value, business value, user experience and originality.

From there, at the stage of public review, the top 20 shortlisted apps in each region will be made available for the public to download on the contest official website or HUAWEI AppGallery from 21 September, making their way to the finals in October.

Ready to harness the endless potential of the app world with Huawei? To find out more, visit https://developer.huawei.com/consumer/en/digix/appsup .

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Compuware Mainframe DevOps Integrations Further Automate Shift-left Testing

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Integrated Test Data Management and Automated Testing Ensures Test Data Consistency, Accuracy and Security

DETROIT, July 1, 2020 — Compuware Corporation, a BMC company and the leading provider of software for mainframe DevOps, today announced new capabilities that further automate and integrate test data and test case execution, empowering IT teams to achieve high-performance application development quality, velocity and efficiency.

The new integration tightly couples the Topaz for Enterprise Data solution with the Topaz for Total Test solution enabling test data setup to be directly embedded into automated testing. By further automating shift-left testing in the Autonomous Digital Enterprise, teams can ensure test data consistency, accuracy and security.

Business demand for faster innovation is putting pressure on IT organizations. According to a recent survey1, 85 percent of organizations find it difficult to deliver innovation faster without compromising quality, security, customer experience and operational efficiency. Test automation is cited as the single most important factor in overcoming these risks.  

“The collective efforts to build quality into software as early as possible is one of the biggest and most important changes I see in the industry,” said Gary Gruver, digital transformation author and consultant. “It is also frequently one of the most difficult due to all the challenges with coordinating and automating code changes, test case changes and test data. It’s good to see Compuware addressing this need.”

The lack of test automation and easy access to good test data is holding organizations back from necessarily improving mainframe software quality, velocity and efficiency. The Topaz for Total Test and Topaz for Enterprise Data integration empowers teams to:

Improve test consistency. Continuous automated testing requires consistent test data. Improper test data can lead to inconsistent or incorrect test results, wasted time troubleshooting errors, or worse, the introduction of bugs. With the new integration, teams can ensure test consistency is maintained by calling the data load process as part of the test case and automatically loading a subset of data into a test environment. In the event the test fails, developers and testers can confidently tie the problem to the code and not the data. 

Remove friction and empower developers. Developers often rely on a specialized team or database administrator to build and load data into a test environment—a practice rife with manual processes, wait times and handoffs that put an unnecessary drag on velocity and efficiency. Now, developers themselves can setup and access the right test data when they need it. 

Ensure adoption through continuous testing. A repeatable data extract and load process can be part of an automated testing toolchain, driving data consistency and reducing complexity. And, as an aid to nudging developers’ transition away from manual methods, automation can be set up incrementally to properly manage the scale and pace of adoption.

Protect sensitive data. With this integrated process, once the test data is loaded, it can also be privatized to protect personally identifiable information (PII). Automating the privatization as part of the continuous test reduces the risk of a security breach.

“We are dedicated to providing our customers with superior digital products and services,” said Lynn Farley, VP, Manager, Digital Banking and Test Data Privacy at TCF Bank. “Compuware Topaz is helping us do that by disguising sensitive data and populating the environments to improve our testing processes while still being compliant. We can deliver quickly without compromising quality, efficiency or security.”

“High-performance organizations in the Age of Software are maniacally focused on removing software delivery bottlenecks that waste precious development time, money and energy,” said Chris O’Malley, CEO of Compuware. “Driving intrinsic automation throughout a mainframe-inclusive DevOps pipeline frees up these development resources so teams can focus 100 percent on quickly—and continuously—turning ideas that matter to their always wonderfully, beautifully dissatisfied customers into deliverables that make a difference. This is no longer an IT aspiration. It’s an absolute business imperative to effectively compete for both your current and potential customers.”

1A global survey of 400 senior IT leaders responsible for application development in organizations with a mainframe and 1,000+ employees conducted by independent research company Vanson Bourne on behalf of Compuware.

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Location Intelligence can save Billions of Dollars in Public Infrastructure Investments

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SINGAPORE, June 30, 2020 — It has now been a month since Quadrant’s Asia Pacific Data Alliance (APDA) launched, and over 100 companies, including some of the world’s leading consulting, geospatial and data analytics firms, have joined the program. The program helps leading corporations, governments, and researchers access quality mobile location data to understand the effects, mitigate the risks and optimize their solutions throughout the pandemic.

We are proud to present some of the pioneering work being done in the world of smart cities by one of our members, Mantra Studios. They are leading built environment intelligence agency focused on providing human insights within big data to help government, developers and designers create and invest in people-centric places. Mantra Studios makes it simple for their clients to understand their community by providing powerful insights on local audiences, uncovering commercial potential, highlighting spatial activity, and discovering the magnetism of places.

Calibrating Mobile Device Data with Smart City Data to Inform Urban Redevelopment Strategies During the Covid-19 Pandemic

The Covid-19 pandemic has created atypical demand patterns in cities and places, creating significant challenges for urban redevelopment in major cities. With social distancing and stay at home orders in effect, historic and trendline data sets are becoming increasingly sought after in the urban arena. They are especially used to inform business and planning strategies as they offer insights into patterns of place use and movement trends.

One of the primary challenges when relying on data findings to underpin long-term investments is that no single data source can provide information on place utilisation. To address this issue, Mantra Studios developed proprietary data calibration methods which use machine learning technologies to ingest cross platform smart city data sources (e.g. IOT, Wi-Fi, and sensor data) to produce reliable calibration metrics to enhance mobile location data, a key data source providing information on place use and utilisation.

In a recent project for a major transportation planning authority in Australia, Mantra Studios was engaged to provide insights into network utilisation during the pandemic. By joining the APDA, Mantra Studios leveraged historic city-scale mobile location data to produce core inputs into the cities multipurpose traffic simulation framework. This framework provides critical intelligence for the allocation of capital to improve and construct metropolitan transport infrastructure.

John Draper, Director of Data Analytics at Mantra Studios, explains, “By starting with metro-scale mobile location data from Quadrant, Mantra Studios was able to develop a city-wide demand model for vehicle movements – to and from major destination centres. This created valuable insights into when and how transport infrastructure was used over time as well as the relative demand profiles of each activity centre.”

Location Intelligence can save Billions of Dollars in Public Infrastructure Investments
Location Intelligence can save Billions of Dollars in Public Infrastructure Investments

The next step was to calibrate the data using a combination of smart city data sources including SCATS (real-time traffic monitoring data on traffic signals to dynamically optimise congestion and improve traffic flow), city Wi-Fi, and public transport tag on/off terminal data. Using neural network regression analysis including Stochastic Gradient Descent and backpropagation algorithms, Mantra Studios was able to produce calibrated data sets and generate validated historic origin-destination matrices.

Applying machine learning regression analyses from diverse smart city data sources to mobile location data can deliver insights with levels of accuracy previously only achievable through the deployment of high cost sensors and manual survey methods. Julien Escande, General Manager of APAC at Quadrant, says, “By revealing patterns and trends of place use and movement, especially at macro or city scale, governments and business can potentially save billions of dollars in public infrastructure investments through optimal design and planning.”

The Quadrant APDA program is still open, and data will remain available to all organizations that require mobile location data until July 31, 2020. As part of the program all partners in this alliance will have access to APAC mobile location datasets that covers over 100 million devices and 50 billion events per month at no cost. Visit our APDA website to learn more and join.

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Remote Graduations: Longer distance, more humanistic

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BEIJING, June 30, 2020 — A news report by China.org.cn on China’s remote graduation under COVID-19:

 

 

Graduation season is drawing near. However, with COVID-19 still lurking, most Chinese universities are yet to resume to normal. This has caused substantial obstacles for both graduation ceremonies and graduates looking for a job.

To cope with the situation, Chinese universities have turned to seek remote solutions. Universities in Shanghai, for instance, have held livestream lectures on social media platforms, and shared employment guidelines, as well as tips for interviewing. Recruitment introductions and job interviews have also moved online. Likewise, a university in Zhengzhou, Henan province held a VR exhibition for its design-majored graduates, making the exhibition accessible to more people. What’s more, the university opened a special channel for companies, so that recruiting teams could contact graduates for interviews after watching the exhibition.

Remote exhibitions and interviews have broken the limits of time and space. Some novel ideas are also used in graduation ceremonies.

Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, for example, has shown its humanistic side in this respect.

The university combined robots and livestreaming in their commencement ceremony. The robots each carried a screen, allowing graduates to witness and even experience the rituals of the whole ceremony from home. Since the graduates were not able to attend, these measures to some extent made it up for them.

The reasons behind this are worth considering. Indeed, the epidemic will eventually be over, and all walks of life will resume to normal. But to each individual student, graduation is an irreplaceable memory in life. A commencement ceremony is supposed to fulfill the students’ sense of ritual. Therefore, Chinese universities didn’t want these temporary challenges to disappoint graduates, and did whatever they could to give the graduates a proper conclusion of their college life. A student from the university said that he had found it to be an interesting experience.

With such facilitating measures, this graduation season is bound to be a special one for graduates.

China is able to make these efforts due to the proficient use of technology. The epidemic has presented challenges to all walks of life. But, remote communication tools and online-to-offline coordination – such as VR, live streams – have helped the social life to move on in an orderly and efficient way in the past few months. As China seeks to build “new infrastructure” featuring new technologies, such utilization attempts have been playing pioneering roles. Hopefully, when the epidemic is over, these technologies will still be valued in various fields, injecting vitality into people’s lives.

China Mosaic
http://www.china.org.cn/video/node_7230027.htm

Remote Graduations: Longer distance, more humanistic
http://www.china.org.cn/video/2020-06/30/content_76221641.htm