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Our archive of project updates, articles and opinion pieces by our partners about the Future of Work, Technology and their individual work experiences and passions.
Twickers 2016 – Army v Navy Rugby
Football has captured the public’s imagination in recent weeks with the Leicester City triumph against the odds; what a spectacle! However, few in the forces could not help but be equally inspired and gripped by the sense of occasion at the annual clash between the...
Leaping into the void
Often I meet highly competent professionals who are between jobs and “in the perfect world” would start their own business as consultants, passing on their invaluable knowledge. They tell me that they are clear that’s what they want to do but they are reluctant to...
Future Parking Space Detection
In September 2015 Ethos participated in the excellent Smart Oxford Challenge event, hosted by Adam Leach from Nominet. Ethos showcased our Future Cities Parking platform which uses new and legacy parking sensors, a linked open data system and machine learning to...
Ethos Active Mobility System launched in time for London Marathon
Ethos Future Cities has developed an Active Mobility system to make congested urban spaces shared between pedestrians and cyclist safer for all. Working with Royal Borough of Greenwich, Transport for London and Reveal Systems we have developed a computer vision based...
Women do drive (and fly) better than men
and I have the proof 🙂 From the age of 4 my parents got us used to a life of jetting off to India every year over the school summer holidays. July and August in India are of course the worst months of the year, with peak temperatures (40 – 50C) followed by warm...
Am I too lazy to keep my contacts' information secure?
A few days ago, a very good friend of mine and a colleague at Ethos (Gary Hunt) raised a very salient point to me about the privacy implications of me sending a contact database through as an attachment to an email. He felt that this raised the very important issue of...
Ethos launches first London-wide construction brokerage
Ethos has launched BuildLondon, a pan-London jobs, brokerage service that connects the construction and infrastructure industry with communities to match job seekers with vacancies, work placements and apprenticeships. This unique and highly scaleable initiative, for...
Future of Britain’s cities goes live
What does the future look like for Britain’s cities? One model is revealed on Ethos Future Cities’ newly launched website, along with live information on parking availability across the UK. The website is part of a multi-media strategy to support sales of Future...
Taking the Digital Path Less Travelled
The commercial pressure is huge to take the easy option in the digital economy; to seek (un)informed consent to use personal data and meta-data from a populace that is not as tech savvy as engineers or as data savvy as business development managers. Everyone else does...
Diversity at the heart of Ethos
It feels as though we’re living through a moment - around the World - when we’re having to ask ourselves, should we open up to more diversity (and uncertainty)? Or should we tighten controls and policies, stick with traditional working practices and people that we...
Networking T!
The Army Alpine Championships are held each year in Serre Chevalier in France, over 100 brave soldiers throw themselves down the mountain in a series of races culminating in the blue ribbon Downhill event. It's hard to appreciate when you are watching them cross the...
Linked Open Data made clear
24th February 2016 saw Ethos formally launch SkillsPlanner, our InnovateUK funded project, at the Institute of Civil Engineers in London. One of the highlights of the evening was Sir Nigel Shadbolt explaining, to an audience including over 100 Industry guests, how...
SkillsPlanner formally launched
SkillsPlanner was formally launched earlier this week (Wednesday 24 February 2016) at the Institution of Civil Engineers in London. Over 100 industry guests were welcomed by SkillsPlanner programme director Rebecca Lovelace. She then introduced Andy Mitchell, CEO of...
Can They Really Nudge for Good? Even a BIT?
As I headed for the Hart Bar in Sydney on a sunny afternoon a few weeks ago, I really wasn’t sure what to expect. Here I was following my son blindly to meet the rest of his colleagues from one of what could be the most successful UK exports in recent years....