Victorians learn history of their property via online tool
Victoria Unearthed allows access to past and present information about historical businesses, potential land and groundwater contamination, and information about contamination management and clean-up activities.
Traditional market shopping now possible online with app
The OkeSayur application allows for an easier and more efficient shopping experience for vegetable, market and kitchen products, offering a variety of vegetables, fruits, and spices, among others within the users’ fingertips.
How the government encourages digital skilling in rural India
The government is working towards making people digitally literate in rural households through skilling initiatives such as ISEA and the Visvesvaraya Ph.D. scheme for electronics and IT.
CSIRO’s Data61 opens Robotics Innovation Centre
The Robotics Innovation Centre expands research infrastructure, allowing them to develop highly autonomous robotics systems that can interact safely and seamlessly with humans and other dynamic agents, in challenging indoor and outdoor environments.
UTM XCITE uses AR tech to nurture marketing skills
A recent report noted that UTM XCITE organized a two-day program in late February 2019 that included a workshop and hackathon. The program aimed to teach 39 participants from UTM unique marketing skills and branding solution tool the software developed by an American technology and camera company; who also owned one of the world’s most […]
India, Israel collaborate to boost AI in Indian healthcare
Funded by the country’s governments, the Israeli start-up and Indian hospital chain will join forces to validate, co-develop, and deploy medical imaging AI across India and to increase Tuberculosis (TB) screening capabilities in the rural areas.
HK companies increasing investments in automation
54% of Hong Kong companies surveyed plan to automate more work in the next 12 months, this will help the Hong Kong Government’s Budget 2019-20 goal setting up smart production lines in HK.
HKU and Tohoku University partner on transformative AI and robotics
By pooling the world’s top scientific institutions to collaborate with local universities, Hong Kong is poised to become a hub for global research collaboration.
BSP to launch clearing house for government services
PhPay would also serve as the centralised online payment portal, transactions ledger and reconciliation system for e-payments to state agencies.
Singapore and France are natural partners in innovation
In a speech by Mr Heng Swee Keat, Minister for Finance and Chairman of the National Research Foundation, at the Closing Ceremony of the France Singapore Year of Innovation on 15 March 2019 at Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, he highlighted how Singapore and France have partnered in innovation and the initiatives that […]
