WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation
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Brush up on buzzword compliance: Gartner Top Strategic #Technology #Trends for 2022

Brush up on buzzword compliance: Gartner Top Strategic #Technology #Trends for 2022 | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it

12 technology trends that will help shape the future of digital business.

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WHY IT MATTERS: this report from gartner review the top 12 buzzword you need to master for your geek xmas cocktail conversations ;-) As often with these, they are very generic and could end up being very difficult to implement. Nevertheless they point in the right direction, globally.

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Software Helps Police Departments Transform to #digital & Keep Cops On The Street via @forbes

Software Helps Police Departments Transform to #digital & Keep Cops On The Street via @forbes | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it

Scott Crouch and his college buddies built Mark43 to help police do their job more efficiently and effectively.

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WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT

Every industry is being transformed by digital, even those that were not so long ago considered off limit. Great example, the police force, which have systems that date from another era, can now benefit from cheap communication, cloud services, big data and analytics services to deliver mobile police insight and tools using everyday mobile phones and tablets.

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Secure Cloud Computing: Virtualizing the FreedomBox- solutions for secure&private cloud computing

Secure Cloud Computing: Virtualizing the FreedomBox- solutions for secure&private cloud computing | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it

In 2010 I asked Professor Eben Moglen to speak to the Internet Society of New York about software freedom, privacy and security in the context of cloud computing and social media. In his Freedom in the Cloud talk, he proposed the FreedomBox as a solution: a small inexpensive computer which would provide secure encrypted communications in a decentralized way to defeat data mining and surveillance by governments and large corporations.


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Security and privacy concerns are top of mind for corporations and individuals looking to move their data to the cloud. This very technical story provides some insights into what may be offered in the future: fully encrypted data, as soon as it leaves the browser, with minimal overhead. Let's hope we can see this in commercial offerings soon.

Peter Azzopardi's curator insight, April 18, 2014 6:54 PM

Homomorphic encryption allows data to be processed in an encrypted form so that only the end user can access it in a readable form. So far it has been too demanding for normal computers to handle.

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