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A man who lives on Stanford Ave in Baton Rouge is tired of hosting a demolition derby in his yard. In the 40 years hes lived there, George Anderson says hes witnessed a dozen wrecks and a car plowing into his house.

Date Time NSW responds to industry opportunities The NSW government has launched its Accelerating R&D in NSW Action Plan, with key themes aligning to the industry needs highlighted in an AusBiotech NSW roundtable last year. The Action Plan, developed with the Hon. Gabrielle Upton MP, Parliamentary Secretary to the Premier, who has been tasked with accelerating R&D investment in NSW, recommends five Priority Actions and 16 Supporting Actions that seek to accelerate the rate at which ideas are tr...

It may become increasingly necessary to charge for open data By Andrew Collinge, Advisor, Smart Dubai, and former Director for Intelligence and Analysis, Greater London Authority This is the second of two pieces. It sets out principles and action areas that will make open data work in modern data markets and communities. Andrew Collinge The first article set out the current state of play for government open data. It argued that the first ten years of the open data movement had seen a quiet ma...

March 2, 2021 @ 11:32 pm By JD Alois UK Finance has published a proposal for a “new service company” that will support the UK’s open banking infrastructure, according to a public statement. UK Finance is described as the collective voice for the banking and finance industry representing over 250 firms in the UK. Last year, UK Finance suggested a model which would see the continuation of open banking functions moved into a new service company as the final stages of the Competition and Mar...

Shaida Badiee is a former director of the World Bank’s Development Data Group and now leads an NGO, Open Data Watch. Credit: IISD/ENB | Kiara Worth After nearly two decades running the World Bank’s Development Data Group, Shaida Badiee now works to help developing nations improve their data systems. And she has a clear message for donor countries: individual aid projects can be helpful, but the real need is for basic data infrastructure During her long career in strategic data management, S...

Allegheny County saw its covid numbers drop dramatically in the month of February, recording 53% fewer new cases than in January. February’s total new cases in the county added up to 7,301. In January, that number was 15,559. It was the second largest month-to-month decline during the entire pandemic. The

When compared with recent prior months, February was much better with regard to the coronavirus in Westmoreland County. New cases of covid-19 dropped by 61.5% from January (5,370) to February (2,064). Even within the month, new cases dropped from the first half to the second. In the first 14 days

In February, Pennsylvania saw the steepest decline in new cases of the entire pandemic. The state went from 202,899 new cases in January to 88,418 new cases in February — a 56% drop. Even though February has three fewer days than January, if you were to add three days of

© Rianne van Rossum Today, the European Commission has approved an investment of more than €60 million from the Cohesion Fund to upgrade the water supply and wastewater collection and treatment infrastructures in and around Dubrovnik, Croatia. Commissioner for Cohesion and Reforms, Elisa This project will not only provide inhabitants with the essential access to clean water and reduced water losses but it will also boost the commercial and touristic attractiveness of the area, thus improvi...

SHARE: It’s no secret that in New York City, like much of the country, Black and Latino people suffer from worse health outcomes than white people, or that women are less likely to participate in the labor force than men. These kinds of gaps in equitable access to health care, education, employment and more have only become more apparent and pronounced during the coronavirus pandemic. Now, a new city resource promises to make it easier than ever to observe just how pervasive some of those gap...