Digital Planet

Should the free movement of data be the fifth freedom next to the already established freedoms of European citizens? Many argue that apart from lifting barriers, the EU has not yet maximised the growth potential of the data economy. Gareth talks to Sandy Pentland at a digital data conference in Tallinn. An entrepreneur from Niger has created an irrigation system that allows farmers to control the watering of their crops from afar by simply using their cell phones. Click’s Sasha Gankin talks to Abdou Maman Kané about his tele-irrigation system. RADAR – Reporters And Data And Robots – is a new service which aims to create tens of thousands of localised stories each month from open data sets. Click talks Gary Rogers co-founder of Urbs Media, about the benefits of RADAR. Scientists in New Zealand are researching how AR might be used by building assessors (and other inspectors) after an earthquake. In conjunction with a HoloLens headset, a student team in Auckland has built an app that will help to process vital data to be made available at a later date for assessing building safety. Simon Morton reports. (Image caption: Digital Blue Binary Code Technology © Getty Images) Producer: Colin Grant