Urban Climate Proof, Geospatial Analytics & Meituan’s Super App

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How geospatial analytics, machine learning going to give impetus to disaster management

As part of the first SAP + Esri Spatial Hackathon, GIS developers, enterprise architects, data scientists, BI developers, and students got together to solve a variety of challenges through the use of geospatial analytics and machine learning technology.

Chinese tech companies turn to games to get kids interested in STEM

It aims to teach students coding by having them play their game and supports Python, JavaScript, Lua, and CoffeeScript.

Why Meituan-Dianping’s Expansion Makes Sense

Meituan’s secret weapon lies in its “one-stop shop” approach. Because Meituan offers so many services, it gives merchants multiple channels to reach the consumer.
Companies offering a single service may offer clear value propositions to users but will have inherent limitations. “Super apps”, if thoughtfully designed, can offer superior value to the company, its merchants, and consumers.

Here’s how developing world cities can plan for the next half century of rapid urban growth

Cities continue to grow at a rapid rate. Within the 100 Resilient Cities Network, more than half of the cities in Latin America, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa are seeing their population expand by 2 per cent or more annually – the benchmark of rapid urban growth.

3 cities using parks to climate-proof their future

Investments in climate adaptation is a necessary expense for cities that wants to safeguard against the negative impacts of a warming climate. But these investments can also provide cities with substantial environmental, social and economic benefits.