KUALA LUMPUR, March 25 (Bernama) -- Earth Networks has completed a new aviation early weather warning system for one of Africa’s largest air navigation service providers, the Agency for the Safety of Air Navigation in Africa and Madagascar (ASECNA).
The system is designed for air traffic management and airport operation professionals to issue alerts on severe weather and lightning threats that can potentially affect air and land operations. Earth Networks said the early warning system included real-time lightning detection, on-the-ground weather monitoring, a web-based severe weather monitoring and alerting platform, severe weather data and visualisation tools and short-range point forecasts. ASECNA Aeronautical Meteorology director, Moctar Mahfoud said there were areas in Central Africa affected by heavy cloud cover and thunderstorms for a staggering nine months in a year. “The need to have real-time information about weather phenomena that can cause severe turbulence and plane diversions is crucial,” he noted. Meanwhile, Earth Networks Global Sales senior vice-president, Jim Anderson expressed excitement with the operational results and its clear impact on safety and operational efficiency improvements in the African airspace. “Working with ASECNA, we have substantially enhanced the ability to detect, track and alert for severe weather across an airspace, 50 per cent larger than all of Europe. These capacity improvements will have significant economic benefits across much of Africa,” he added. Earth Networks comprehensive weather monitoring, visualisation, alerting and forecasting decision support tools help the aviation industry reduce delays due to weather, eliminate false alerts and provide safe operating conditions during flight and on the ground. -- BERNAMA KUALA LUMPUR, March 21 (Bernama) -- The World Free Zone Organization (World FZO) will set up its Asia-Pacific headquarters at the Jiangdong New Area in Haikou, China.
World FZO director-general (China Office), Li Guanglian said the World FZO would support the development of China's free trade zones (FTZs), especially Hainan FTZ and Hainan free trade port by providing related services for governments, enterprises and investors. It will also support the development of China’s related industries, strengthen liberalisation and facilitation of bilateral investment, promote economic globalisation, and develop Haikou into the gateway for China's communication and cooperation with others. The Asia-Pacific headquarters will be the administration centre for the region, and will also deal with some businesses of the Dubai headquarters. It will develop the hub for international free trade, and attract the world's major FTZs and related enterprises to set up regional offices. A research institute on world free zones will be established to conduct research and provide training on free zones to establish standards for China's FTZs, as well as collect and compile data on China's FTZs. Registered in Geneva and headquartered in Dubai, World FZO has a profound global impact launched by 14 FTZs, including Shanghai Free Trade Zone and Dubai Airport Free Zone, according to a statement from The Municipal Government of Haikou City. The organisation has members from 100-odd countries and regions, and has established long-term and stable cooperation with many important international organisations, including the World Trade Organisation. -- BERNAMA KUALA LUMPUR, March 18 (Bernama) -- Ten Japanese start-ups have demonstrated their innovative technologies to solve societal challenges and make life easier at SXSW 2019.
The start-ups are ArchiTek, Empath Inc., LOAD&ROAD, AI SILK, DFree, Life is Tech, Spiber, ALE Co., Ltd., Unipos and Yume Cloud Inc. They demonstrated their products and services during the Japan Innovation Hour on March 12 in the International Innovation Platform. The demonstrations drew high attendance and audience was able to view solutions that included applications spanning artificial intelligence, wearable technologies, smart home solutions and others. These companies are part of the government’s J-Startup programme to incubate globally-competitive start-ups, the face of the new business environment in Japan as a global innovation hub. The programme produces start-ups that use human imagination to bring greater joy, better environmental stewardship and groundbreaking innovation to industry and everyday life. The exhibition is a part of the J-Startup Program, a pioneering government initiative launched in June 2018, designed to create optimal environmental conditions to foster 20 unicorns by 2023. The Japanese Government has focused on strengthening innovation ecosystems to incorporate external dynamism beyond its borders and developed a more effective regulatory environment through the business-friendly Abenomics policy initiative. More details at https://www.j-startup.go.jp/en/ -- BERNAMA |
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