CSR Initiatives

UNL and HERE collaborate to power location technology-driven shift to a new normal

The ATLAS Horizon 2020 project "Agricultural Interoperability and Analysis System" will fund 5 to 10 business entities per open call by allocating EUR 1,050,000 in two rounds (2020 and 2021). ATLAS is looking for proposals that seek to develop new and innovative services by making use of the technical foundation the ATLAS platform provides. The proposed projects should demonstrate specific value for either consumers or stakeholders along the agricultural value chain. The work carried out in these projects should have a thematic focus on developing services that build on and extend the use cases carried out within the ATLAS project. SMEs, start-ups, and farmers legally established and based in one of the EU Member States or an H2020 associated country (as defined in the H2020 rules of participation) are welcome to apply. Successful participants will have the chance to become part of the ATLAS ecosystem and benefit from its extensive network of end users, service providers, researchers, and policymakers. OPEN CALL TOPICS Topic 1: Weed and Pest Control Topic 2: Irrigation Topic 3: Asset Tracking and Fleet Management Topic 4: Efficient and Transparent Nutrient Cycle Reporting Topic 5: Behavioural Analysis and Management of Livestock Topic 6: Information Platform for Farmers Topic 7: Open Technology for innovative Agriculture SUBMISSION DEADLINE 15 September 2020 (23:59 CEST) For all the info material follow the link https://www.atlas-h2020.eu/open-call/.

Seed Funding for start-ups

HERE Technologies offers Indian SMEs free delivery tool to meet demands of COVID-19

HERE Technologies offers Indian SMEs free delivery tool to meet demands of COVID-19

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Digital Blue Foam Introduces Covid Space Planner to Fight Pandemic with Generative Design

Digital Blue Foam Introduces Covid-19 Space Planner to Fight Pandemic with Generative Design

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SafeGraph creates a dashboard showing foot traffic patterns across the U.S.

Virtual Drone Racing Series Benefits COVID Relief

Virtual Drone Racing Series Benefits COVID Relief

Uber’s new mobility heatmaps give insights into micromobility trends in cities

Kinetica and Disaster Tech announced the release of the COVID-19 Real-time Crisis Management Platform to aggregate and track data relevant to COVID-19 emergency response today. The platform is able to combine current data, such as hospital capacity and diversion status, locations of alternative medical sites, state-wide declarations, testing kit quantities, and protective equipment availability at a local level, for example. The platform functionality is the direct result of a survey of emergency managers and emergency responders across disciplines, and blends data from 30 different government, public health, and private sector sources. “Emergency responders do not have days or hours to mine through hundreds of data sources in a crisis,” said Roger Coleman, President & Chief Strategy Officer at Disaster Tech. “They need real-time data in one place to make important decisions quickly, whether identifying sites for triage centers or determining how many test kits to send out.” Disaster Tech is a public benefit corporation that builds technology to analyze, visualize, and communicate risk, on a mission to accelerate decision-making to save lives, protect the environment, and reduce risk to communities and critical infrastructure. The company was founded by CEO Sean Griffin, who served in the Federal government for 13 years, which included service as Director for Incident Management Integration Policy at the White House National Security Council (NSC) for President Obama and President Trump. “Our team is removing barriers to those who serve by providing the most advanced technologies for making the best decisions to save lives and protect communities,” said Sean Griffin, CEO, Disaster Tech. “Those serving the most vulnerable deserve and require the best tools to support risk mitigation and life-saving decision-making.” Disaster Tech’s platform is intended for emergency responders, serving a separate purpose from the Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus Resource Center dashboard, which provides an essential public record of up-to-date caseload, deaths, and recoveries across geographies. Using Kinetica, the COVID-19 Real-Time Crisis Management Platform aggregates and tracks real-time streaming data in order to make immediate emergency response decisions. With conventional processors, it took 60 hours to analyze streaming data in emergency scenarios, rendering data-driven decisions obsolete. Running the Disaster Tech platform on NVIDIA GPUs, Kinetica enables emergency planners and responders to react dynamically to these huge datasets. “The critical decisions that are being made by both policy makers and first responders need to be based on dynamic data-driven insights,” said Paul Appleby, CEO, Kinetica. “The COVID-19 Real-Time Crisis Management Platform delivers powerful intelligence that government and public health agencies can leverage immediately in order to minimize transmission, treat the sick, and provide essential services to all those affected medically and economically.” Disaster Tech is making the COVID-19 Real-Time Crisis Management Platform available as a public service to ensure public health and emergency management agencies have access immediately. The publicly available version is specifically for use within the United States, is equipped with standard filters including a Twitter sentiment data option, and is embeddable. Public agencies can also register to access the platform privately, in order to upload their own public and private data sets without publicly divulging sensitive information about their communities. Users can take even a simple spreadsheet and visualize it on the platform. “Because tackling a global pandemic is such a complex task, it is essential to combine data from many sources to get the most up-to-date, relevant information to help disparate groups of people work together across geographies,” said Stephan Mergenthaler, Head of Strategic Intelligence at the World Economic Forum. "Disaster Tech and Kinetica are generating insights from myriad sources of data that emergency responders can act on.” The COVID-19 Real-Time Crisis Management Platform is the product of collaboration across the technology, public sector, and public health communities. It is built on Microsoft Azure, using NVIDIA GPUs to power the Kinetica platform’s instantaneous, high-fidelity visualization and location intelligence. The Kinetica Active Analytics Platform gives Disaster Tech the ability to support tens of thousands of users so that entire emergency response teams have simultaneous access to up-to-the-moment information. “Accurate data is essential to helping communities respond in times of crisis,” said Manuvir Das, Head of Enterprise Computing at NVIDIA. “Using the power of NVIDIA GPUs and Kinetica Active Analytics to speed up analysis, the COVID-19 Real-Time Crisis Management Platform is able to aggregate massive data sets in real-time to give emergency planners and other leaders the comprehensive intelligence they need to do their invaluable work.” The platform is designed to respond not only to the novel coronavirus, but to share a wide swath of relevant data across emergency response teams in future disasters, from weather to health to security threats and beyond. What is learned in this crisis can be leveraged to plan and prepare for future emergencies. In addition to the launch of the COVID-19 Real-Time Crisis Management Platform, Disaster Tech has partnered with World Hope on an initiative called Get Support to offer additional resources directly to individuals who need help in this crisis. Kinetica is contributing to the World Economic Forum’s COVID Action Platform and is a member of the Forum’s Global Innovators Network.

Disaster Tech & Kinetica Launches Crisis Management Platform

Esri Provides Free COVID-19 Resources to Nonprofits

Esri Provides Free COVID-19 Resources to Nonprofits

COVID-19 increasing consumers’ focus on ‘Ethical Consumption’: Accenture survey

Aerodyne Drones completes 1,000 flight hours in COVID-19 operations

Ola makes tech platform accessible to government to fight Covid-19

NextNav offers COVID-19 contact tracing app-makers free precise three-meter ‘Floor Level’ location data

How Orbital Insight is responding to COVID-19

COVID-19: IBM launches Rapid Supplier Connect to tackle supply chain shortage

COVID-19: AWS shares cloud data lake services with researchers

COVID-19: Uberall makes location marketing free to local businesses

Google maps

Google supports COVID-19 response efforts with maps and Android utility library update

CARTO provides free visualization software to those organizations fighting COVID-19

CARTO provides free visualization software to those organizations fighting COVID-19

Hexagon-built Portuguese app Commercial Enterprises helps keep supply of essential goods intact

GIS Planning launches data tool for open businesses amid COVID-19

Quarantine Impact on Human Mobility in Paris

Quarantine Impact on Human Mobility in Paris

CloudFerro offers access to cloud computing resources for COVID-19