Telemedicine: Removing the “Borders” in Doctors Without Borders
MSF's mission to save lives in war-torn regions comes with great human and financial costs. Can telemedicine help overcome these challenges?
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HBS grad reinvents Uber, ‘Indonesia-style’
How does ride-sharing survive in the world’s worst traffic? On two wheels!
Bringing the solar system home… and making it smarter
How BBOXX is bringing the “Internet of Things” to off-grid energy solutions
The Drone Buzz: How Kespry Transforms Physical Jobsites into Big Data Sets
What happens when you give a miner, construction worker, and roof inspector a drone?
Inmate Reform Goes Digital
California Department of Corrections seeks to cut cost by going digital.
Digitally enabled policing: redefining incident identification, response, and prediction
Digital technology is changing the world of policing. The Boston Police Department (BPD), like its peers throughout the US and the world, is adapting its operating model to leverage new digital tools and approaches in traditional policing contexts and to prepare for new policing contexts which will be created by digital technology (e.g., cybercrime). While the BPD is close to the leading edge of this adaptation, there is more that it could be doing.
The future of money-transferring
“A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Dirty Truth: Why You Shouldn’t Shower When its Raining and what Opti’s Cloud-based IoT platform is Doing to Help
The digital transformation has created opportunities for businesses to address such capacity problems in ways never previously imagined, OptiRTC provides solutions at the for reducing the stress on the stormwater management system by providing accurate information on the levels of water in various tanks, reservoirs and holding ponds so that governments can control how much water is getting discharged from CSOs and keeping our waterways clean.
Bean Counters in Space: How Orbital Insights Sees the World
Orbital Insights is applying machine learning to a vast amount of satellite imagery to help hedge funds and governments quantify the world.
Lending Club: Can technology fundamentally disrupt how we invest and borrow?
Banking has been around for 700+ years, and is the third most profitable sector in the economy. Financial intermediaries usually rely heavily on physical assesses and people. Is there a leaner way to do this? Lending Club says yes. The market's view is mixed. Read ahead to explore this topic.