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In a globalized world, we have become used to doing business, buying products and traveling the world at breakneck speed.
But the advent of social estrangement measures this year has suddenly raised the main obstacles to traffic, which has led to an immediate acceleration of the transition to the virtual and the adoption of emerging technologies, while society has adapted to this new reality.
As more and more towns and businesses reopen, this era of immediate transformation has left its mark Now that everyone from the family business circle to the painters of giant organizations has had an idea of what is the digitized and optimized way of life and paintings can bring, it’s to happen.
The movement of people, knowledge, and goods will be reshaped in the post-COVID world through those new tech trends, but what does that mean?
Representing local Dutch technology, I spoke to 3 start-up CEOs from Techleap.nl’s Rise program to find out.
If social estrangement has prevented us from physically fainting to move on to groceries, in fact it hasn’t stopped us from converting our online shopping habits.During the crash, there was a main spike in e-commerce: COVID-19 accelerated the expansion of e-commerce from 4 to six years, with others taking care of everything from board games to noise-cancelling headphones to make quarantined life more bearable.
But one thing we don’t think about is how our products get from the production site to our front door. I spoke with Avishai Trabelsi, CEO of Quicargo, to get a broader idea of what long-term logistics could look like.
Having started as CEO of his family-owned transportation company in Israel, Trabelsi can see that the logistics industry is incredibly classic and is therefore nowhere near as effective as it is needed to meet global demand.product development.
As he explained, about 50% of freight trucks on the road are empty or partially empty, which is incredibly inefficient, but also contributes to the highest rates of congestion and pollution.
It’s time for a much-needed technological disruption.
In 2016, he founded Quicargo, a platform where corporations wishing to ship their goods can pair up with shipping corporations located in the correct geographic location and with the ability to make those deliveries. By introducing synthetic intelligence, automated integration systems, dynamic costs, and prediction. models, must fill unused area with cargo, speed up shipping times, and set costs based on knowledge points, while reducing the number of trucks on the road.
This means that, after waiting weeks for your new sourdough, ukulele or other lockable hobby kit, you can hitchhike any truck on the platform heading to your city, saving time, cash and air quality.
While this might seem correct for freight corporations and corporations, transportation corporations have a tendency to be more classic and embrace new technologies. However, during the lockout period, everything changed.
“Some industries had to shut down completely and the transportation corporations that were targeting those industries faced a massive problem. At the same time, we’ve seen the e-commerce business boom as other people start to order things like barbecues and furniture for their homes, ”Trabelsi explained.
Quicargo has noticed that many small companies that have begun to deliver for the first time register on his platform, the wonderful thing is that some of the transportation corporations that were unemployed could also fit in with the corporations of the same. transportation corporations during this period.
“Companies now know they can’t keep doing what they’ve done.I believe that virtual responses in all sectors are appropriate ambassadors for technology.Because we rely on data and are updated on the newest technologies, we have a duty to lead this era of adjustment and help smaller and more classic companies innovate,” Trabelsi told TNW.
During the shutdown, the WHO partnered with tech giants such as Oracle, Microsoft and IBM to create a blockchain-based platform that will stumble upon COVID-19 carriers and potential hot spots. Array Why blockchain wonder?
While it is up to society to fight the spread of the virus, considerations are being developed on the possibility of new track and trace programs developed by the government to collect and misuse non-public knowledge. The merit of blockchain is that knowledge can be controlled and stored without violating the privacy of the knowledge.
In addition to news for the blockchain industry, New York hospitals have joined IBM’s COVID network of backup providers to ensure material stability. By employing blockchain, they can temporarily determine the legitimacy of those lesser-known vendors without a lengthy verification process, meaning they can get the materials they so desperately want without waiting.
But it’s not just the fitness industry that benefits from blockchain, many corporations found that they needed new strategies to secure, determine, and exchange critical data to continue their activities.
“Instant access to reliable and verified data was imperative at the time, which would explain other organizations driving blockchain integration into their operations.In addition to providing verified data, there were many fewer non-public contacts during the pandemic.For this reason, the role of the intermediary has been further reassessed than before,” said Rick Schmitz, executive director of the corporate LTO network of hybrid blockchain.
For this reason, blockchain generation is most likely to be used more widely to securely focus knowledge in the post-blocking world and subsequently after COVID.
One of LTO Network’s clients, Firm24, the largest online notary in the Netherlands, recently facilitated remote shareholder legalization with its new mobile app. Each step of the procedure is stored in the blockchain of the LTO network.
Increasing adoption can also particularly drive the untapped perspective of blockchain generation in the future.
“There have been so many adjustments to the technological paradigm in the last two months that blockchain will evolve more temporarily due to the current situation, especially around (international) business and health.
“COVID has demonstrated the urgency of creating real-world instances of technology use, such as the need for decentralized acute healthcare systems in the event of a (future) pandemic. How do we leverage the right mix of caregivers, resources, and time across the region for patients to have optimal accessibility to acute medical care? These types of processes can only be improved through blockchain, as they are completely reliant on effective and trustless collaboration over existing legacy systems that were previously uncommunicating, ”said Schmitz.
Last but not least, after months of blocking, the most we have to do is get off the road and go on a trip.After months of browsing images on Instagram, other people need to pass out and move.post-COVID world?
Talking to Koen Droste, CEO of the Polarsteps recording app, he explained that what other people will want to the fullest is: inspiration, reliable data and flexibility.
“People dreamed despite all that this exclusive adventure in the world was doing. We look forward to seeing a lot of those types of travel after COVID.”
To help fuel this artistic energy on the road, Polarsteps recently launched a new feature that allows users to plan their trips and itineraries for the long term.”Over the past six weeks, we have noticed a sharp increase.People are in a position that creates wonderful long-term trips and bet on their itineraries to be in a position where it is possible to travel intercontinentally again,” Droste explained.
At the same time, it’s not just about dreaming, travel inspiration helps users deal with their preferences with reports closer to home.
“Over the past 4 to six weeks, we’ve noticed an increase in the number of readers.The good thing is to see that, since we still can’t all over the world, other people stay close to the house and become more artistic in their style.The other day, at Polarsteps, we saw a user who was visiting all the purchase options on the Dutch monopoly table in order,” Droste told TNW.
But to the maximum of spontaneous travelers you will have to plan your trips a little more than usual, especially if you have recently traveled to Europe the thing has become more confusing, while we are usually used to opening borders, now each and every country is introducing, by abandoning and reintroducing new rules and travel restrictions at such an immediate pace , we don’t know what to expect when we succeed in the next place, and this uncertainty is expected to continue until at least 2021.
This means that plans also deserve to be as flexible as possible.
To help solve these disruptions for its users, Polarsteps needs to create an all-in-one platform where users can find reliable, high-quality information through a team of editors who create guides that combine expert recommendations with genuine reviews.
As Droste explains, it’s about conservation. If you arrive in Cali and want a position to stay, instead of having to look for a lot of options, what travelers want are five recommendations so that you can temporarily book an ebook and depart for your first salsa club.
Droste has some attractive forecasts about the kind of things we’ll do in the future.
“One of the most demanding situations of the previous holiday was the excess of tourism.I believe that by 2030, the trend will be far from major cities and to new destinations.Thanks to Corona, other people also realize that there are smart places to scale.near their homes. I would expect that, because many other people are finding what local has to offer, this may also be here to stay.
In fact, as someone who explored the interior of Mexico in a Volkswagen Beetle and traveled to Armenia via Lada, Droste said his next trip was planned for the exotic nature of neighboring Frieze, a sample you’ve never finished exploring.
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