Last week I spoke with Louis Zacharilla and Robert Bell co-founders of the Intelligent Community Forum (ICF ).  They were both very busy getting ready to announce the Intelligent Community of the Year at the Building the Broadband Economy summit in New York City June 6-8. Each year, ICF presents an awards program for Intelligent Communities and the public-sector and private-sector partners who contribute to them.    This year the 2012 Revolution…

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Tags: broadband, Connected Government, innovation, intelligent community, network platform

Key to the development of effective public sector strategies for resilience, innovation, and productivity is the ability to navigate at unprecedented scale and speed, complex and distributed communities (networks) of information, people, and things. By tapping the power of these networks, communities can effectively share ideas, expertise, and knowledge, encouraging richer levels of participation. Smart City development and services through part…

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Tags: #lonconf, Cisco, cloud services, IBSG, infrastructure, London Policy Conference, network, S+CC, Smart City, Smart+Connected Communities, urban services, urban sustainability

Innovation is alive and well in education. You don’t have to look far to find teachers using technology to personalize teaching and learning in their classrooms. There are also many outstanding examples of schools of distinction that have integrated technology into curriculum and instruction. However, there are precious few examples of school districts that are systemically employing technology as a foundational strategy to improve student achie…

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Tags: 1to1, edtech, education, innovation, mobile learning

Day Three of Partner Summit kicked off to a bouncing beat: Following a thumping performance by C2C, a group of world champion music DJs, SVP Edison Peres took to the stage to congratulate yesterday’s Olympic trip winners and kick off the day’s theme of Innovation. He then introduced Padmasree Warrior, CTO and Cisco’s co-leader of Engineering, who opened her presentation with a bold statement: “We are on the verge of the most change this industry…

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Tags: barry o'sullivan, byod, C2C, cisco partner plus, cisco services partner program, ciscochannels, ciscops12, cloud connect, cloud marketplace, edison peres, jabber, padmasree warrior, partner-led cloud, vdi, virtual partner summit, vps, vxi, Wendy Bahr, work your way

From the IT Executive Symposium at Cisco Live 2012 I think the enterprises of the future will look very different from those of today. Organizations will become leaner and more virtualized as their business processes grow more reliant on ecosystem partners. Process boundaries will transcend a specific entity. Many macroeconomists believe that real shareholder value (and, ultimately, economic growth) will be driven by the speed and quality of in…

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Tags: architecture, as-a-service, business, Cisco, everything-as-a-service, IBSG, innovation, process, virtualization