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Review of KnowNow’s Rollercoaster 2016
2016 was a pivotal year for KnowNow Information. Flood Event Model was stymied by Brexit. Entelligently got funded by InnovateUK.
KnowNow represented at UK Government Malaysia Trade Mission
David is delighted to be travelling to Kuala Lumpur to represent KnowNow at the UK Government's Malaysia trade mission next week. He will join a group representing high-growth UK companies at the technology mission organised by the Department for International...
Students help build customer service
We just said goodbye to two excellent summer students, one undergraduate and one post-grad masters. They have been working on a customer project using IBM's cognitive computing system, Watson. The Cognitive Adventurer - David Ralph David Ralph is a Masters student...
How to implement consent for your council under GDPR
A new service from KnowNow Information, Consentua, helps organisations build citizen trust as required under General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR). It provides data processing transparency and gives citizens the choice and control needed to share data safely and...
Access to Finance and Growth 2016
Do you occasionally have a great idea for a new product or service? Would you like to see how you can take those ideas and build upon them until that new product or service is available in the market? On 14th September KnowNow will run a workshop at ACCESS TO FINANCE...
Future Watch: Beathouse
Future Watch 6: Beathouse Welcome to the sixth and final installment of our ‘Future Watch’ series. Chris tells all about BeatHouse, a futuristic project that is 2-3 years ahead of the market! Beathouse - Home Monitoring G: Just before we finish, can you tell us a bit...
Future Watch: Home Monitoring
Future Watch 5: Home Monitoring Chartered Engineer, Enterprise Architect, and one-half of KnowNow, Chris Cooper discusses how technology can be used to improve patient care and provide home care monitoring. G: If a city is starting to go down the smart cities route,...
Future Watch: 5 ingredients of a Smart City
Future Watch 4 - 5 ingredients of a Smart City Smart Cities advocate Chris Cooper is a co-founder of KnowNow Cities, which provides a design consulting service for those involved in smart cities. In this fourth part of our Future Watch series, Chris opens up about the...
Future Watch: Privacy and Social Media
Future Watch 3 - Privacy and Social Media Tech legend and one-half of KnowNow, Chris Cooper concludes the discussion with Gemma Christie on data security and privacy. They talk openly about how Facebook and Google use your data, along with a great sandwich story. We...
Future Watch: Cyber Security & Individuals
Future Watch 2: Cyber Security & Individuals Today Chris is talking to Gemma Christie about the world’s biggest data breaches, data security at your bank, your mobile phone company, the government, and where Google is going with security. G: In your original...
Future Watch: Chris Cooper on Data Security
Future Watch 1: Data Security. Chartered Engineer, Enterprise Architect, and one-half of KnowNow, Chris Cooper talks to Gemma Christie and explains the data security issues that people and organisations still can’t seem to master, as well as next-horizon ideas that...
Why Bristol is top of the UK Smart Cities Index
Bristol is a Top UK Smart City Yesterday I attended the announcement of the first UK Smart Cities Index of top UK smart cities sponsored by Huawei and researched by Navigant. A very interesting event hosted by The IET at the newly refurbished Savoy Place. The...
Future of Urban Portsmouth. Really?
Slightly surprised by what I heard. Today I was at an event hosted by University of Portsmouth at the Emirates Spinnaker Tower (quite possibly my favourite UK structure). The event was to kick start a discussion on the future of urban Portsmouth. Prof. Steffen...
Citizens Now Have Consent Part 2
Part 2 - What is happening now… The Business Case is warming up When it came to KnowNow's innovative new consent tool what we needed was a view of the market. We needed to move from a hunch to a viable innovation backed up with evidence. A consequence of being on a...
Citizens Now Have Consent – Part 1
Part 1: The Story So Far For smart cities to be considered a success they will have many different types of services e.g. for health, mobility, energy, and crime. How services are delivered, measured, and valued will be transformed and citizens will now consume...