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March 15, 2013

GOVERNMENT

Kick-off Blog for the Global Blog Series “Cloud for Local Government”: Local Government Leaders Rising to t …

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Local government agencies are facing increased pressure to improve agency agility and performance, while creating efficiencies and reducing costs in order to better serve the public, and cloud solutions could be just the answer. Today marks the kick-off of our thought leadership blog series designed to provide local government leaders around the world with specifics […]

March 10, 2013

GOVERNMENT

Government Cloud CIO Roundtable (February 27, 2013)

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Two weeks ago, we had the pleasure of hosting a TelePresence roundtable for 46 Public Sector CxO-level executives from 20 locations throughout Europe, Middle-East and Africa (see map below). The event was moderated by Jens Mortensen (Director Central Government & Healthcare, Cisco EMEAR) and the main objectives were: To present and debate on 3 perspectives of […]

March 8, 2013

GOVERNMENT

Request your Marriage Certificate at the Mall: Transforming the Delivery of Government Services

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Government services and convenience are rarely seen within the same sentence; more often than not, the thought of making the trip down to city hall is a sure-fire way to increase one’s blood pressure. Cisco’s efforts around Smart+Connected Communities have continuously focused on identifying these types of pain points – advocating the need to design cities with technology at the core to […]

March 8, 2013

GOVERNMENT

Telework First: time to put Dracula in charge of the bloodbank

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As our friends and colleagues in the United States participate in Telework Week, you may like to know that us Aussies also held our own Telework Week in November 2012 based on the success of US Telework Week. Australian Telework Week successfully put the idea of working from anywhere uppermost in the minds of employees, […]

March 6, 2013

GOVERNMENT

What I’ve Learned as a Teleworking Employee and Manager

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My journey as a teleworking mom started almost ten years ago after I had my older son. I was coming back to work and in the process of changing roles at Cisco Systems. I live in North Carolina and had a job opportunity for a leader based in California. She knew that I wasn’t in […]

March 5, 2013

GOVERNMENT

Telework as we know it

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As I sit in my home office, surrounded by amazing technology, I’m struck by how different telework is today from just a few years ago. A few years ago it started with a second phone line and the company VPN.  Today my laptop is plugged into a workstation connected to a Cisco router, as is […]

March 4, 2013

GOVERNMENT

Telework Week: A Public Sector Success Story

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March 4 marks the beginning of the third annual Telework Week, a week-long effort to get public sector agencies, companies and individuals to pledge to telework. Once again, Cisco is proud to be a platinum sponsor of this worthwhile event. Last year, more than 71,000 people – 94 percent of whom were federal employees – […]

March 1, 2013

GOVERNMENT

British Innovation Gateway (BIG): Now the hard work’s really begun…

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It was only a year ago that we were all eagerly anticipating London 2012 in our role as network infrastructure supporter. It was exciting, at times daunting and – looking back – tremendous to be at the heart of bringing the Games to the world. To quote Lord Coe at the closing ceremony, “we did […]

February 28, 2013

GOVERNMENT

RSA Conference 2013: I Am Security

Here I sit… In Mel’s Drive-In Diner, San Francisco, CA. I just inhaled the “El Ranchero Americano”, which I am sure to regret later, and am enjoying tunes from yester-year...

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