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ICT for sustainability: from the supply chain to the chip

According to the recent Supply Chain report from the Carbon Disclosure Project, 70% of organizations identified a climate change related risk as threat to their business and revenue.

Such a risk comes from the tendency of supply chains become more global and therefore more exposed to natural extremes linked to climate change. Such changes are responsible for disruptions in production capacity, increments of operational costs and reductions of demands for goods and services. On the other hand, supply chains account for more than 50% of the greenhouse emissions generated by manufacturing companies. Therefore a vicious loop seems to exist and organizations are trying to break it.

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Mobile Health, every heartbeat counts

According to the European Commission, by 2050 the number of people in the EU aged over 65 is expected to grow by 70% and the number of people aged over 80 by 170%. This translates into diminished quality and lower accessibility to healthcare services. Increasing financial investments on infrastructure (hospitals) and related services is not anymore a sufficient solution and governments worldwide are seeking a paradigm shift towards better quality at lower costs.

Mobile health (M-Health) offers such a shift by essentially supporting movement of health-related information instead of health-care people, who are generally costly and scarcely available.

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The Internet of Things: Data for a better life

Advances in sensor technologies and internet availability revolutionize the way in which we look and sense the world around us. Weather forecasts or stock prices can be checked anytime and everywhere by using smart phones. According to Gartner more than 50% of Internet connections are currently related to objects instead of PCs or mobile devices.

Although broader themes like Intelligent Infrastructure are attracting more and more attention, RFID is still considered a powerful technology allowing objects and sensors to communicate to each other. In both cases, our lives will keep on being changed by smart objects capable of measuring for example temperature, humidity and atmospheric pressure, send this information through the internet, and enable bigger insights out of it.

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