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  • Milan studies paying to go to work by bike

    Milan is considering paying citizens to cycle to work, as confirmed by the city councilor for mobility, Pierfrancesco Maran. The news comes from the fact that Milan, the economic center of the transalpine country, had to ban car traffic for three days in a row last December, due to the high levels of pollution that…

  • Climate change: A worrying record

    Last Thursday, March 3, we crossed a worrying threshold, as stated on the World Economic Forum. According to preliminary data, for a few hours it reached 2 degrees Celsius above ‘normal’ in the northern hemisphere, something unprecedented since records exist. This fact is significant; Two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels are internationally established as the…

  • Video: It’s Smart to be Dense

    Este vídeo producido por el Instituto para el Transporte y las Políticas de Desarrollo y Streetfilms defiende la densidad como un principio fundamental del desarrollo sostenible.

  • Passive Wi-Fi: 10,000 times more efficient

    The devices that we connect to the Internet are multiplying, so the high energy consumption generated by the Wi-Fi system is a problem. That is why a group of young electrical engineers from the University of Washington have devised a new system that consumes 10,000 less electricity than traditional Wi-Fi, which they have come to…

  • Australia: 25 years without going into recession

    Australia has gone 98 quarters in a row without entering a recession. Or what is the same, 24.5 continuous years without there being two consecutive quarters with negative growth. The Australian Institute for Statistics announced on March 1 that the oceanic country it grew 0.6% in the last quarter; the last time it was in…

  • Video: What can open data do for you?

    On the occasion of Open Data Day 2016, we want to share a video from the Open Data Institute that gives a glimpse of what Open Data can do for us.

  • Our diet will be poorer in 2050

    A study published in the British medical journal The Lancet does not bring very rosy news about what our diet will be like in the year 2050. Many of the foods we usually eat today will become scarce due to climate change. The high temperatures and the drought will especially affect fruits and vegetables, whose…

  • Alexander Acha joins naider as a digital marketing specialist

    Alexander Acha is linked to the Naider project as a specialist in digital marketing. Alexander has a degree in Business Administration and Management from the University of Deusto, and is studying a Master’s in Digital Marketing at Mondragon Unibertsitatea. Previously, he collaborated in the development of Electronic Government projects in the Government of Ecuador thanks…

  • New Delhi: Rooftop Solar Panels

    In New Delhi, the city government is studying promoting the installation of solar panels on the roofs of residential, industrial, and public and semi-public buildings. In return, the residents of the buildings could receive an economic sum for each watt produced. The report “Rooftop Revolution: Unleashing Delhi’s Solar Potential”, published by Greenpeace India, states that…

  • The brake on the Internet of Things

    Some of the largest technology companies in the world, including Microsoft, Samsung and Intel, have established this past February the “Open Connectivity Foundation” (OCF), an alliance created to unravel the Internet of Things. In other words, create common standards for the Internet of Things (Iot), so that the devices can communicate and work with each…