As world leaders gathered in late 2015 to adopt the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), there was much recognition that the tools for eliminating absolute poverty have dramatically evolved since the year 2000 when the original Millennium Development Goals were articulated. Over the past fifteen years, information and communication technologies (ICTs), particularly the Internet, have catalyzed major shifts in the global economy and ICTs are playing a transformative role in improving economic and social outcomes for low income and marginalized populations. A new report by Cisco and the UN ITU looks ahead at a new group of ICTs, the connectivity technologies associated with the Internet of Things, that are poised to reshape development and significantly contribute towards achieving the SDGs.
The issues may never be fixed for all devices
loT vendor Wyze has verified it fortuitously left an internal database vulnerable online. And this was exposing the data of 2.4 million users approximately.
Airbus has started trialing an IoT platform on its A350-900 test plane, and if all goes well, your flights will never be the same ever again.
