Europe needs to pursue a different strategy from Silicon Valley if it is going to reap the social and economic benefits of big data, according to Dirk Helbing, Professor of Computational Social Science at ETH Zurich, who aims to create an open, real-time data stream from the Internet of Things.

 

http://horizon-magazine.eu/article/open-data-could-turn-europe-s-digital-desert-digital-rainforest-prof-dirk-helbing_en.html


Via Complexity Digest