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…es, however, present an opportunity to integrate physical city infrastructures—from utilities, transportation, and real estate to city services. Smart City development and services is a major theme at the Meeting of the Minds 2012 conference in San Francisco, CA, September 9-11, 2012. Presented by Toyota, with global sponsorship from Philips, Deutsche Bank, and Cisco, this event continues an ongoing global dialogue among the public and private se…
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Tags: barcelona, Cisco, City Protocol Society, IBSG, ICT, meeting of the minds, san francisco, Smart Cities, Smart City, Smart City Framework, urban innovation, Urban Knowledge and Research Symposium
…manager Jason Tabor and Cisco, these remote expert kiosks enable a live, interactive video feed where residents can speak with Judge Alfredo Tavera about their cases and the options available to them. The service allows up to 20 people to be linked via Cisco TelePresence to the court at one time and a touch screen with interactive pad is provided for ease of use. This month, residents in San Antonio will find an up-and-running kiosk right in thei…
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Tags: Connected Justice, remote expert, Remote Expert Smart Solution, smart+connected cities, Smart+Connected Communities, TelePresence
…to take back their public spaces, resulting in the city becoming one of the most attractive centers in Latin America for business. Porto Alegre has been encouraging its citizens to vote on priorities for the city budget for 22 years now, a model that has been replicated in several cities around the world, including four NYC districts just last year. We think these types of stories will start to spread exponentially because of the underlying dri…
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Tags: broadband, participatory democracy, Smart + Connected Communities
…) solutions through small-scale “proof of concept” projects. Since budgets are so limited, it can be difficult to adopt a purely centralized approach, which means trying new techniques and learning from the enterprise sector. 2. Build a foundation for public-private partnerships. Government agencies and city leaders cannot create smart, connected urban communities alone. Frameworks are needed for relationships between the public and private…
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Tags: Busan, Cisco, city systems, cloud, Cloud Management, connectivity, government, IBSG, infrastructure, Intelligent Network, smart, Smart + Connected Communities, Smart City, Songdo
…vironment to create and test these applications and services. Launch of the Busan Mobile Application Center. In one project, we are seeing platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and software-as-a-service (SaaS) on a city-wide scale by 2014. Building cities in the clouds? Not literally, but certainly building a smart+connected community on a cloud computing platform. Busan is not the only Asian city that Cisco is working with to build these “City Clouds”….
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Tags: Asia, Busan, China, Cloud Computing, Korea, Smart+Connected Communities
