Patrick Buckley Thanks to AI, the future of video-conferencing is in sight. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, video-conferencing has become the backbone of both our work and social lives. Today, on #WorldHugDay, we take a look at some of the ways in which...
Patrick Buckley How IoT technology is helping candy producers make sweet profits! From chocolate bars to lollipops, gumdrops to Haribos, the confectionary industry is now worth an estimated 210$ billion worldwide. With the industry experiencing strong growth, it is no surprise...
Paloma Recuero de los Santos Internet of Things… Archaeological Sites At the end of 2019, according to IoT Analytics, there were already 9.5 billion connected devices for consumers, businesses and scientists. The forecast for 2025 is three times this...
LUCA “Data is in the air” with the Data Science Awards Spain 2018 Winners of the Data Science Awards 2018. On November 22nd, Telefónica celebrated the third edition of the Data Science Awards Spain 2018 prize giving, the only awards in Spain that...
LUCA Deep Learning and satellite images to estimate the impact of COVID19 Motivated by the fact that the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) pandemic has caused worldwide turmoil in a short period of time since December 2019, we estimate the negative impact of...
LUCA Success Story: LUCA Transit and Highways England The transport industry is very receptive to the application of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence strategies, as there are clear use cases that can maximize a companies’ efficiency and...
LUCA Understanding the visitors of the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid Every organization needs to understand who their target audience is, in order to know how to direct their activity and through this, define their strategy and lines of action....
LUCA What does Big Data tell us about the way people move around Brazil’s favelas? Brazil has seen its fair share of the world’s media spotlight in the past year, with positive storylines around the success of the Rio Olympics, as well as more...
Our role in digitalizing Latin America with Big DataLUCA 20 January, 2017 This week, Telefónica and the International Development Bank (IDB) renewed their strategic alliance to continue promoting digital transformation and socio-economic development programs in Latin America from 2017 to 2020. This time, the Inter-American Investment Corporation (IIC) has also come on board, with the goal of strengthening collaboration with the private sector. This new addition, broadens the scope of the alliance as well as the opportunity to take joint actions on economic, social and digital development projects in countries where Telefónica, the IDB and the IIC operate, in collaboration with governments, civil servants and the private sector. The agreement was signed this week here in Madrid by José María Álvarez-Pallete, Chairman and CEO of Telefónica, and Luis Alberto Moreno, president of the IDB. This unique collaboration will focus on six different areas within the Smart Cities area as part of the IDB’s Emerging and Sustainable Cities Program. These include: Big Data projects focused on data analysis and public interest solutions. Digital Economy. Internet Accessibility and development of appropriate regulatory policies. Entrepreneurial support as framed within the Telefónica Open Future program. Development initiatives including the areas of education, health and security. During the first period of this strategic alliance (2012-2015), various development projects in diverse areas such as ICTs and microfinance, education, Smart Cities, internationalisation of SMEs and social entrepreneurship, in addition to collaboration on regulatory studies and publications. In LUCA, we are extremely excited about the opportunity to participate in Big Data projects in Latin America. We strong believe that using data for development is crucial in driving progress towards the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, and for this reason we are regularly working with governments and NGOs to use our analytical capabilities for social good. In 2017, we will be taking part in a range of hackathons (like this one in Rio de Janeiro) to see how mobile data and open data can be applied to the most pressing social issues out there. Millennials want to use data for social good, but will privacy stop them?Stanford University’s “Women in Data Science” to debut in Madrid
LUCA La transformación digital en la gestión del agua, ahora más que nunca Hoy en día mantenemos la incertidumbre de cuándo dispondremos de una vacuna o cuál será el impacto real en la sociedad y en la economía que nos deja esta...
Patrick Buckley Thanks to AI, the future of video-conferencing is in sight. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, video-conferencing has become the backbone of both our work and social lives. Today, on #WorldHugDay, we take a look at some of the ways in which...
Patrick Buckley How AI and Machine Learning help to develop vaccines As Christmas approaches this year, we have all been gifted the great news that the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine has shown to be both safe and effective in creating an immune...
Patrick Buckley Is AI key to successful Real Estate investment? As Artificial Intelligence (AI) continues to shape the world around us, in today’s post we explore the impact of AI on commercial Real Estate investment. To what extent is...
LUCA Deep Learning and satellite images to estimate the impact of COVID19 Motivated by the fact that the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) pandemic has caused worldwide turmoil in a short period of time since December 2019, we estimate the negative impact of...
Patrick Buckley How should you speak to children about Artificial Intelligence? In previous years, people’s relationship with technology in general, and with artificial intelligence in particular, was based on “text”, usually using specialised programming languages. Today, however, artificial intelligence has...