Tag: smart
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Are we over looking security in our smart cities?

The smart city is a city which uses digital technology to run itself and manage resources efficiently. A city can be defined as smart, once all the eight key aspects that make the foundation of a city are identified as smart: governance, energy, building, infrastructures, mobility, technology, healthcare and safety. Indeed, all nations in the…
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Connecting the classroom

Image Credit: chanpipat / Shutterstock Did you know that the average American student spends 1025 hours in the classroom each year? And of that, 308 hours are lost to interruptions! That’s about 1 out of every 5 minutes are spent consumed by “anticipated interruptions” – transitions, materials distribution, and starting or ending class. What if…