Potholes and Big Data: Crowdsourcing Our Way to Better Government (WIRED) – The city of Boston has developed a smartphone app that has greatly improved their efficiency in maintaining roads. Drivers are able to turn on the app and the phone will track ‘bumps’ and submit their location to a cloud server for the city to analyze and locate potential road hazards.
Today, March 26, is the Independence Day of Bangladesh, commemorating its declaration of independence from Pakistan in 1971. Parades, political speeches, fairs, concerts, ceremonies and various other events celebrating the history and traditions of Bangladesh will mark the national holiday. And, Bangladesh soon will have more to celebrate!
Learn more about Governor Kasich's proposed capital budget focusing on oil and gas training facilities, a recent study showing veterans succeeding in college, and the NSF funding a new private-public research center at Ohio University, in conjunction with Washington University St. Louis. In addition to all of this, we have information on a new approach for high school advanced placement classes.
Learn more about Harvard's new online classes through the business school, robots helping prepare students for future jobs in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Indiana, and Big Data sparking corporate turf conflicts. Also included is information on the Ohio unemployment rate and issues facing teachers in vocational programming within state prisons
Highlighted today is a new digitalization effort in the Vatican Library, data-related graduate programs, and a community-mentorship program in Cincinnati. Also included is information on a new climate change data website and adaptive technology aimed at curbing student cheating
New updates on the Race to the Top winners, supercomputing and sports collide, and STEM training efforts increase through a $2 million venture. Also included is information about IBM looking into medical treatments, and more!
Our digest today looks at new uses of big data when it comes to fraudulent tax returns, the Ohio Aerospace Institute working on more STEM initiatives throughout the state, and a new bill in the state of Michigan focusing on changing higher education tuition expenditures.
Learn about new MOOCs at the University of Pennsylvania, Ohio's expansion of the library consortium, colleges seeking autonomy from the state system in PA, and more
The Digest for today highlights the 54,000 new manufacturing jobs added to Ohio's workforce over the past four years, and the $20 billion in education funding contributed from the Ohio Lottery. Also included is an update on Senator Portman's visit to RAMTEC, a vocational school for manufacturing of robots, and national news on the FY215 budget and STEM education along with a study on the job market changing for college graduates.
Today we feature a lot of information on libraries and the move toward digital content. We provide information on the MoMA library featuring a new library collaboration for guests, a research study showing positive trends at American public libraries, and a library consortium working to loan more e-books. We also feature a new deal between Ohio State and Nationwide Insurance company, and a 3D printer in Amsterdam.
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