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London-based startup SociAbility is on a mission to empower social inclusion through better accessibility information... It is a sad fact that we do not do a good job of ensuring that our public places, shops, cafés, etc. are accessible for the 1.5 billion people worldwide who need them to be. People who need venues to be accessible too often cannot find out whether they are or not with ea...
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It seems that drones are the future. From simple deliveries to photography to survey work to search and rescue, the applications of drones extend far beyond simple entertainment. We have written about this and many other drone uses and startups before, and the technology only gets more useful and innovative. Now we are seeing a rise in solutions around the base of drones rather than direct applica...
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5 GeoTech Startups Putting Themselves on the Map With their ‘Geovation’ programme, Ordnance Survey is focusing on giving aid to geotech startups. Since this is one of the things that is going to be talked about at our upcoming Manchester startup event, it seemed a good time to look into geotech startups putting themselves...wait for it...on the map! Be it through entertainment, servi...
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A few months ago we highlighted a London startup that we thought had the potential to change the world by creating an incredibly useful global addressing system based upon 3-word phrases.   There are hints now that the team’s hard work is beginning to pay off, with a recent announcement that Mongolia will become the first country in the world to adopt ‘What3Words’ as its of...
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