The Digital Speaker (Page 314)

How Blockchain Could Significantly Improve Democracy

Distributed ledger technologies such as Blockchain are a hot topic at the moment. Startups incorporating blockchain technology are raising hundreds of millions of dollars using a new form of crowdfunding called the Initial Coin Offering (ICO). Many of these startups offer new solutions for existing problems or are adapting existing

How to Solve a Global Identity Crisis Using Blockchain

We have an outdated identity system. You might not be aware of it because you are using it on a daily basis and all seems to be fine. However, identity faces a major crisis and we need to solve some big challenges. To achieve this, we have to bring identity

How Big Data Can Help Save The Earth

The earth is having a difficult time, for quite a while now. Deforestation is still happening at a large scale across the globe, in Brazil alone, 40,200 hectares [http://www.redd-monitor.org/2014/10/31/what-next-brazils-deforestation-soared-by-290-in-september-2014/] were deforested in

The Future of Big Data? Three Use Cases of Prescriptive Analytics

Prescriptive analytics can be seen as the future of Big Data. If we see descriptive analytics as the foundation of Business Intelligence and we see predictive analytics as the basis of Big Data, then we can state that prescriptive analytics will be the future of Big Data. There are three

Why Content Analytics Will Tell You More than Business Intelligence

Of course, you know all about web analytics or social media analytics, which has been around for years. However, web analytics and social media analytics alone is not enough to gain an understanding of your (online) business. There is another type of analytics that cannot be overlooked, which is content

The Race is On: How Blockchain Will Change Governments

We are at a global crossing point and if we manage to solve some of the problems that we have created in the past decades, the world can become a better place. When the web was developed, the objective was to create a decentralised web. However, somehow, we ended up

How Big Will the Internet of Things Be?

The Internet of Things is rapidly becoming a reality. Increasingly, everyday items are connected to the Internet ranging from smart thermostats to smart toothbrushes. In the coming years, the number of smart devices in our household could grow drastically as Gartner [http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2839717] predicts that

How Big Data Turns CRM into Something Truly Valuable

Customer Relationship Management involves a company’s interaction with current and future customers. It is a combination of all customer touchpoints. It is a prerequisite to provide better customer service. CRM has always involved data, but most of it used to be structured data such as contact information, latest contacts,

4 Ways Big Data Creates A Smarter Transportation Industry

The transportation sector is on the brink of a paradigm shift thanks to big data. Smarter transportation will result in operational efficiency, improved end-to-end customer experiences, reduced fuel consumption and increased flexibility. Logistics companies are already working hard to use sensor data in trucks to optimize routing and

How Sensor Data Can Save You a Lot of Money

The Internet of Things, Industrial Internet, Internet of Everything, no matter how you name it, the future connected world will change everything and create massive amounts of sensor data. According to Cisco [http://www.zdnet.com/cisco-ceo-internet-of-things-poised-to-be-19-trillion-market-7000026321/] , it is

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