INSIGHTS
Fronesys promotes Smart Cities impact analysis at the World Bank
Fronesys partner Jyoti Banerjee called for a new approach to integrating together the impacts of cities, which enabled a meaningful assessment of how a city creates value, who creates that value, and for whom that value is created. Jyoti was speaking at a...
“Real” Smart Cities challenges facing city leaders
Smart Cities is all about the application of smart technology to the problems of a city. That is what the "noise" on the streets seems to indicate. Jyoti Banerjee, partner at Fronesys, disagrees. Here's why. Across the world, city leaders are seeking to...
Educating Smart Cities leaders: interview with Jyoti Banerjee
MK:SMART has just published an interview with Jyoti Banerjee, partner at Fronesys, on the education programme we are building as part of the Smart Cities consortium working in Milton Keynes. As Jyoti explains in the interview, "I’m not expecting that a...
MK:SMART Smart Cities initiative kicks off
MK:SMART is a new three-year £16m initiative, funded by the Higher Education Funding Council of England (HEFCE), which aims to provide innovative digitally-oriented solutions to the growth challenges in Milton Keynes. Fronesys is pleased to be part of the...
IIRC launches Integrated Reporting Framework today
A three year journey traversed by a global coalition of companies, investors, framework providers and NGOs led by the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) has resulted in the publication of a new framework for corporate reporting: The...
Sustainability toolkit for the ICT sector
The Smart 2020 report found that the full life cycle carbon footprint of the ICT industry represents around 2% of worldwide emissions, and is projected to grow at a 6% annual compound growth rate. Although the sector’s emissions are rising, its largest...
Digital entrepreneurship
Across the world, national governments and regional economies are putting considerable effort into digital start-ups in the hope of accelerating economic growth. This trend is driven by the clear recognition that start-ups – and particularly high-tech...
Smart Cities and the Internet of Things
Cities and municipalities across the globe are increasingly looking at digital innovation to tackle the dual challenge of economic growth and sustainable development. The Smart City concept, a confluence of the Internet of Things and Big Data, holds...
Digital skills
Unemployment is a blight on this generation of youth: around 1 million unemployed in the UK in the 16-25 age cohort, while unemployment is in the 40-50% range in this cohort in southern Europe and the Americas. What makes this generation of unemployed...
Fronesys apprentice hired by think tank
Apprenticeships are all the rage in policy circles, but do they work in a start-up company like Fronesys? Jyoti Banerjee reflects on the first apprenticeship at Fronesys. As a company doing work in the areas of youth unemployment and digital skills, we are...