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Naider

  • Learning to program: an opportunity for the new generations

    ICTs inevitably have a growing influence on our lives, and yet technology is often used in the classroom as a passive instrument, schoolchildren learn as users. Teaching programming encourages creativity and autonomy among young people, beyond preparing them for a labor market in which many will hold jobs that do not yet exist, and in…

  • The electric bus, a great commitment by Irizar

    Irizar hopes to have its new plant specialized in assembling electric buses ready by the end of this year, according to general manager José Manuel Orcasitas, when presenting the results of the group in 2015. Thus, it is planned to start the activity of the plant, located in Aduna, Gipuzkoa, on January 2, 2017, to…

  • How to reuse smartphones as IOT nodes

    In 2015, 280 million smartphones were replaced worldwide without being recycled. This is the information that the founder of the Phonvert project, Tomo Kihara, shared at the South by Southwest 2016. Many of these smartphones were only a year or two old, still functional, and packed with various valuable sensors: cameras, accelerometers, touch screens, or…

  • Video: Open Government at the Service of Citizens

    “The data itself has no value, it is its applications, how people use it that brings economic value and social value, social innovation.” This video from the Inter-American Development Bank advocates giving greater access to public information and encouraging participation to achieve citizen-centered, transparent and efficient governments.

  • The first airport that works 100% with solar energy

    Cochin International Airport, in southwestern India, the fourth largest in the country in terms of international traffic volume, set itself the goal in 2013 of becoming the first airport in the world to rely exclusively on solar power it generates – and it has, as reported by CNN Money. The airport no longer pays any…

  • Barcelona bets on wooden houses

    The Municipal Housing Board of Barcelona has opted for wooden construction and has promoted the project that will build 46 social apartments in said material, according to El País. The houses, designed by the Roldán-Berengué architects, will be built in the Sant Andreu district, in the industrial area of ​​the old Fabra i Coats. The…

  • The most unequal countries in Latin America

    According to the latest data from the World Bank, six Latin American countries are among the 14 with greatest economic inequality in the world, although the top five positions are held by African countries. The World Bank measures inequality based on the Gini coefficient, which varies between zero (total equality) and one (maximum inequality), and…

  • Digital alternatives to traditional banking

    The banking industry hasn’t really been rocked by disruptive innovators coming from the digital economy, the way hotels have been with Airbnb or taxi drivers with Uber. Much of the considerable investment in technology made by the financial sector has been aimed at keeping systems in place. However, as an article in El País< recently...

  • IoT sensors to protect crops

    New interesting examples of possible applications of the Internet of Things are emerging that would help a multitude of sectors. One of the latest findings, written about by The Economist, are tiny sensors that can help farmers by continuously monitoring their crops and giving them relevant real-time data on parasites, temperature changes , or other…

  • Video: If the world were 100 people

    If the world were 100 people, 14 couldn’t read and write, only seven have gone to college, 71 earn less than $10 a day and 1 earn more than $90, while 23 are homeless. These are some of the statistics collected in this video from Good Magazine that in 2:30 minutes gives an accurate image…