U.S. Department of Transportation announces SMART grants for 2024
The Biden-Harris administration has announced that it is accepting applications for the Strengthening Mobility and Revolutionizing Transportation (SMART) grants program. In its third year, the U.S. Department of Transportation [...]
The Digital Silk Road: A technology growth engine
The Digital Silk Road is a component of China’s Belt and Road Initiative. It aims at the development and export of Chinese sourced embedded and systems technology in communications, [...]
The largest transport project in US history
The 2021 US Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) provides $1.2 trillion in investment funds to US states and federal authorities to enable recovery from the covid pandemic and [...]
Making Germany Resilient
In the 2020s, Germany has found itself beset by the effects of four major economic and social shocks that have afflicted it over a period longer than a decade. [...]
Europe’s $870bn regeneration plan
Next Generation EU is the European Union’s €807 billion (US $873 billion) investment programme launched in 2020 in response to the Covid crisis. It aims to support digital and [...]
How China plans to transform through IoT
In early March 2024, the Chinese government held its annual economic summit alongside its annual week-long session of Parliament. The Chinese government declared it is aiming for GDP growth [...]
Protecting Consumers: The US Cyber Trust Mark
The US administration is introducing a voluntary cyber security certification and labelling programme that will be known as the US Cyber Trust Mark. The new programme is to provide [...]
IIJA: using IoT to transform America
It is billed as one of the largest technology investment programmes of all time. It is tasked with the regeneration of American industry and the modernisation of America’s urban, [...]
