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Smart cities: innovation becoming a reality
According to the UN World Urbanization Prospects, the urban areas of the world are expected to absorb all the population growth expected over the next four decades. Europe is one of the areas highly...
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Presentation of the report “Smart Cities: a first step towards the Internet...
Today, Fundación Telefónica is presenting in Barcelona a new report untitled “Smart cities, a first step towards the Internet of Things” (only in Spanish). As it was explained in this Blog, cities are...
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ICT for Smart Sustainable Cities
The entrance of the guided tours area. Cities are powerful engines of economic growth, fuelled by intensive interpersonal communication and high concentrations of specialized skills. However,...
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Wayra launches a new global call to find 50 new digital startups
Telefónica announced this week that Wayra, our startups global accelerator, has launched a new global call in order to find 50 new digital startups for its centres in London (UK), Madrid and Barcelona...
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Internet of things: The new industrial revolution
The Internet of Things (or IoT) is not a new concept. For years, experts have been speaking about ubiquitous computing or environmental intelligence, concepts that anticipated the extension of the...
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The digital revolution has arrived to our cities
We believe in Smart Cities. We are transforming cities in Spain making them more efficient, responsible, sustainable, and ultimately, smarter. We are leading multiple smart city projects to tackle a...
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To what extent can smart cities improve citizens’ lives?
In light of the last Smart Cities World Expo (Barcelona) we caught up with Marieta Rivero, Deputy General Director to the Chief Commercial Digital Officer, regarding Telefonica’s vision for Smart...
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DIGITAL ECONOMY: Reports published in November
November 2014 has been very fruitful on the number of reports published covering the digital economy. Here is a selection of the ones that were more interesting for us. Enjoy the reading! DIGITAL...
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David del Val: “Disponer de estándares abiertos para las Smart Cities, clave...
David del Val, CEO de Telefónica I+D y director de Product Innovation de CCDO, ha participado en NET FUTURES 2015 como uno de los Plenary Speakers del congreso, junto a Günther Oettinger, comisario...
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Nace la alianza para la Innovación en Internet de las Cosas
El Internet de las Cosas (IoT) se ha convertido en una fuerza clave para la transformación de los negocios y la sociedad en la actualidad. Según Gartner, casi 5.000 millones de dispositivos estarán...
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March 2015 Digital Economy Reports
Here are the main reports published in March 2015 with a strong focus this month on how to obtain social and economic growth by fostering the digital and technological environment and transformation....
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Telefónica presenta con el Grupo Español de Crecimiento Verde la declaración...
Telefónica ha presentado hoy junto a otras 29 compañías españolas comprometidas con el medio ambiente, la Declaración de Barcelona, que incluye 10 recomendaciones para que las políticas económicas...
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More than 50 cities are now part of the Open & Agile Smart Cities (OASC)...
More than 25 new cities from 10 different countries have shown their interest to join the 2nd wave of the Open & Agile Smart Cities Initiative as the deadline to send their applications approached...
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El gobierno español eleva la relevancia de las smart cities y Telefónica...
El día 15 de julio Telefónica participó en la constitución del Foro Sectorial de Ciudades Inteligentes, creado en Madrid por el Ministerio de Industria, Turismo y Energía, para complementar la...
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June 2015 Digital Economy Reports
The June 2015 reports dealing with digital economy policies are focusing this month on how to build digital societies from Asia to Europe, but also on the challenges raised by the digital economy to...
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Las ciudades tienen que ponerse a la altura de los ciudadanos en la...
Las Smart Communities son una “gran oportunidad” para transformar la sociedad, y por ello hay que ser muy conscientes de que sus habitantes “no quieren simplemente ser gestionados”, sino participar,...
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How could ICTs and digitization contribute to the new SDGs? (part 3)
This is the last post of the trilogy on how our sector could actively contribute to the new SDGs recently approved. You can access the previous ones here and here, but let´s review the last goals to...
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El Mercado Único Digital: Retos y Oportunidades
El pasado 1 de octubre, Telefónica y representantes de 20 universidades de la Red de Cátedras Telefónica se reunieron en La Jornada de la Red de Cátedras Telefónica para debatir sobre el presente y el...
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