Shenzhen: The Silicon Valley of Hardware (Full Documentary) | Future Cities | WIRED WIRED UK Published on 5 Jul 2016 Future Cities, a full-length documentary strand from WIRED Video, takes us inside the bustling Chinese city of We examine the unique manufacturing ecosystem that has emerged, gaining access to the world’s leading hardware-prototyping culture whilst…
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Innovating Against Odds: How a Province in Pakistan is Transforming Itself — World Bank org
From Hotbed of Instability to Digital Hub The Digital Youth Summit has become a premier tech event in the country, drawing crowds locally, nationally and internationally to discuss entrepreneurship and innovation. STORY HIGHLIGHTS In a region affected by regional instability, the World Bank is working with the government of Khyber Pakthunkhwa (KP) to help…
Japan: German Ismaili technologis Rahman Jamal’s interview in Japanese language on Monoist atmarkit co JP
スマートファクトリー： 日本の製造業よ、第4次産業革命で規格策定の舞台に立て NI グローバルテクノロジー＆マーケティングディレクターのラマン・ジャマル氏 ドイツのインダストリー4.0や米国のインダストリアルインターネットコンソーシアムなど、世界的にICTを活用した新たなモノづくりが胎動している。その中でドイツおよび米国のプロジェクトそれぞれに参加し、存在感を示しているのが米国National Instrumentsだ。同社でこれらの活動に参加しているグローバルテクノロジー＆マーケティングディレクターのラマン・ジャマル氏に話を聞いた。 （Factory Automation 2015年3月18日） http://monoist.atmarkit.co.jp/mn/articles/1503/18/news016.html ***** Related post on PBSJ Blog An Ismaili technologist and thought leader in action Rahman Jamal, Germany ->>>>><<<<<-
A young Togolese Afate Gnikou built a functioning 3D printer using mostly e-waste that he found in a scrap yard|Won award — Read ,view and watch
“The 3D Printing Revolution” — Belfer Center, Harvard University A 3D printer printing a house. This technology works by translating digital information into physical objects. Africa is on the cusp of the next digital revolution. In February, a young Togolese entrepreneur, Afate Gnikou, stunned the world by winning first prize at the 10th International Conference…
Surfing to success in the weird city — Professional Engineering article on National Instruments mentioning two long-serving European executives Francis Griffiths and Rahman Jamal
National Instruments prides itself on being a bit different, fostering its own ethos that even includes having a 100-year business plan Universal knowledge: NI’s equipment and software is crucial to the success of the research at Cern (…) “The 100-year plan is crucial to our core values,” says Francis Griffiths, the University of Wales electrical…
How Do We Measure the Biggest of Big Data? — Rahman Jamal’s article on IEN Europe
Tools and platforms that integrate well with each other Rahman Jamal, Technical and Marketing Director for Europe, National Instruments Mention ‘Big Data’ and most people think immediately about retailers storing customer information, the rapid rise of social media and vast numbers of financial transactions taking place online. However, engineers and scientists in test and…
Social Media and Social Change: How Young People are Tapping into Technology – By Ravi Kumar on World Bank org
Available in Français, Español Today, 43% of the world’s population is 25 years old or younger. This young group is impatient and ready to change the world. Change for this generation “has everything to do with people and very little to do with political ideology,” according to a new global survey, Millennials: The Challenger Generation,…
From Ramallah to Silicon Valley – Arab American Institute org’s article by Emily Jabareen on booming tech industry in occupied land
Wednesday October 24, 2012 The busy city of Ramallah, located in the West Bank, has been experiencing economic hardship for years. People recently took to the streets by the hundreds to protest rising food prices and dismal employment rates, angrily chanting slogans condemning the inaction of the Palestinian Authority. The West Bank as a whole…
Skype Founder on ‘Silicon Allee’ Hype: ‘No Reason a Company Like Ours Couldn’t Come Out of Berlin’ – Spiegel interview
Niklas Zennström, the co-founder of Skype, is only the latest entrepreneur and investor to jump on the Berlin high-tech bandwagon. SPIEGEL ONLINE spoke with him about why people want to be in the city, what the scene in the German capital is missing and why the start-ups appear to be immune to economic crises. SPIEGEL ONLINE: Everyone in the tech world…
The Birth of the ‘Fifth Estate’: William Dutton on 20 Years of the World Wide Web – Spiegel’s Article
By Manfred Dworschak CERN A screen shot of the NeXT computer used by Tim Berners-Lee to browse the World Wide Web at the time became publicly accessible on Aug. 6, 1991. In a SPIEGEL interview, William Dutton of the Oxford Internet Institute discusses how fundamentally the World Wide Web has changed our lives since…
Karlsruhe scientists transfer 700 DVDs of data in one second – The Local Germany News
Computer users who despair over slow internet connections should take heart – German scientists have broken a speed record, sending 700 DVDs’ worth of data via a single laser beam, in one second. The scientists at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) said this week they had broken the world record by sending data…
Festo Launches SmartBird Robotic Seagull – Spectrum.ieee.org
Festo has a fairly fascinating, frankly fantastical, and frequently full-on fabulous history with the robotic systems that they develop in partnership with universities and research groups as part of their Bionic Learning Network. In the past, we’ve seen flying penguins and jellyfish, as well as bio-inspired manipulators like this one. Today, Festo has unveiled their…
