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Digital Swarming - The Next Model for Distributed Collaboration and Decision Making
This executive brief takes into account current trends, standards, ideas, and research, and is intended to promote further discussions about digital swarming. The CUD, Personal Travel Assistant project is a current example of digital swarming. The project—an initiative involving Cisco, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and select cities—is helping cities connect their urban environments to enhance public services.
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The Connected Republic, and the Power of Social Networks
So how does the phenomenon of social networking affect governments? In this paper, we look at the increasing role that technology-enabled social networks are playing in three areas: government as enterprise, government as service provider, and government as policymaker.
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Smart 2020 ICT Presentation July2
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WebEx Green Guide
The business community has a crucial contribution to combating climate change. A wide range of options, from energy saving and recycling schemes to technological solutions provided by IT can enable the move towards a low-carbon economy.
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Connected Government
This book, consisting of 14 essays from national governments, is about the concept of Connected Government and. examines the issues involved in developing and implementing compelling national e-government strategies. It explores the Connected Government strategy which is built on six pillars: citizen centricity, standardized common infrastructure, back-office reorganization, governance, new organizational model, and social inclusion.
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Connected Cities
The ideas explored in Connected Cities chart the emergence of a political and economic phenomenon-the city as the new connected republic of the 21st Century. Simon Willis, Global Head of eGovernment for the Internet Business Solutions Group at Cisco Systems, has collated essays that show how different cities, at the cutting edge of the process, are grappling with the various stages of connectivity.
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Real Estate Today: A Market Transformation - Cisco White Paper
Executive Summary. Responsiveness. Innovation. Agility. Adaptability. All organizations must possess these qualities in order to thrive in today’s highly competitive global economy. Until recently, corporate real estate was not considered a strategic advantage to help companies reach these goals, and commercial real estate had not yet fully embraced the concepts and technologies available to further optimize shareholder value.
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Connected Real Estate
A pivotal feature of today's most innovative and valuable real estate is connectivity—the ability to facilitate intercommunication and interaction among buildings and digital infrastructures. Connected Real Estate contains viewpoints and advice from many of the real estate and construction industry's most innovative players from around the world.
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2010: Broadband City
Broadband infrastructures leverage a multiplicity of technology solutions in terms both of transport and of access. Technology choices definitely influence the strategic direction of broadband government programs, but this book focuses on strategic and organizational issues and does not discuss technology solutions, architectures and trends.
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Climate Change Road Map
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