2135: Closing the Digital Divide with Accelerated Geospatial Data Analytics

The pandemic highlighted what many already knew: high-speed internet access is not a luxury, it’s a necessity. Yet, the digital divide remains prevalent, with 21M U.S. citizens still lacking internet connection. The UN Human Rights Council considers access to the internet as a basic human right, but despite numerous strides that have taken place in the technology realm in the last two decades, billions of people worldwide still don’t have access to the internet. So, how can telcos and government organizations work together to accelerate the process of identifying these “digital deserts” to build the infrastructure needed for internet access? The answer lies in accelerated big data analytics, which enables users to analyze billions of data points in minutes and generates detailed visualizations of regions that still lack broadband. Dr. Mike Flaxman, head of product at HEAVY.AI joins me on TechTalks Daily to discuss how utilizing GPU-powered advanced data analytics and visualization can help to close the digital divide and shares different use cases for the technology.