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Participation, Collaboration, and Community
The Role of the Network as the Platform
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Smart Work—A Paradigm Shift Transforming How, Where, and When Work Gets Done
A paradigm shift we call Smart Work is now emerging and is being driven by extreme changes in approaches to work, work cultures, business architectures, premises, decision making, communications, and collaboration. This paper explores the dynamics affecting work and the critical components necessary for a Smart Work strategy that will have a positive impact on the worker, employer, economy, and community.
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Work-Life Innovation
The Future of Distributed and Networked Work
Work-Life Innovation for Communities
Stimulating Work-Life Innovation in Developing Countries&8212;Communities and Regions
Smart+Connected City Services
Cloud-Based Services Infrastructure Enables Transformation of Busan Metropolitan City
Connecting Cities
Achieving Sustainability Through Innovation
Telework Video
Video: Achieving Higher Levels of Federal Employee Productivity, Inclusion, and Environmental Sustainability
Telework
Achieving Higher Levels of Federal Employee Productivity, Inclusion, and Environmental Sustainability
Distributed Networks
Work-Life Innovation: The Role of Networked Technologies
How technologies currently in use, and those that will become pervasive in the next few years, are impacting our work and personal lives, and the processes of innovation.
Network-Powered Growth
How Governments Can Serve as Catalysts for Sustained Economic Growth
Next Generation Clusters
Creating Innovation Hubs To Boost Economic Growth
Cisco IBSG's latest thought leadership for the public sector industry, featuring proven solutions to daunting business challenges—and the roadmap for achieving success.
Get Up to Speed: How Developed Countries Can Benefit from Deploying Ultrafast Broadband Infrastructures
Ultrafast broadband (UBB) offers developed countries a unique opportunity to nurture global economic prosperity. This white paper is intended to ignite discussions with relevant stakeholders on how to plan for UBB.
Work-Life Innovation: The Role of Networked Technologies
How technologies currently in use, and those that will become pervasive in the next few years, are impacting our work and personal lives, and the processes of innovation.
Networked Solutions for 21st-Century Challenges
The Economics of Complexity and Scarcity, and the Role of Networked Innovation
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The Economics of Network-Powered Growth
Network technology has the potential to boost economic growth permanently, sustainably enriching poorer societies
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Participation, Collaboration, and Community
The Role of the Network as the Platform
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Smart+Connected in Action: Amsterdam
Amsterdam is a showcase example for city planners tackling sustainability initiatives.
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Virtual Maternity Care
How Social Networking Technologies Can Improve Prenatal and Postnatal Outcomes, and Lower Costs
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Smart Work—A Paradigm Shift Transforming How, Where, and When Work Gets Done
A paradigm shift we call Smart Work is now emerging and is being driven by extreme changes in approaches to work, work cultures, business architectures, premises, decision making, communications, and collaboration. This paper explores the dynamics affecting work and the critical components necessary for a Smart Work strategy that will have a positive impact on the worker, employer, economy, and community.
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The Resilient Society: Innovation, Productivity, and the Art and Practice of Connectedness
This is the second installment in a series of white papers that explores ways in which public leaders can enable greater resilience and productivity using secure, distributed networks.
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The Business of Social Entrepreneurship
Knowledge production is moving from creation by individual specialists to creation by communities of practice. Peer partnerships between ICT companies and "local" organizations — powered by "people software" -- are defining a new path toward increased competitiveness for developing countries.
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Architecting Resilience - Perspectives from Public Sector Leaders
This is the first in a series of white papers that describes how the public sector can enable greater resilience and productivity using secure, distributed networks.
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Ageing Well in the Netherlands
The City of Almere Pilots Innovative Video Services
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Telework
Achieving higher levels of federal employee
productivity, inclusion, and environmental sustainability.
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People-Centered ICT -- Improving the Lives of Millions and Creating New Business in Emerging Markets
Corporations and governments can unlock ICT markets and transform lives by partnering with organizations that have a proven "people software."
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Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust's Communications and Collaboration Strategy Transforms Healthcare Delivery
New ICT strategy helps boost productivity, reduce patient wait times in the ED, and improve communications among after-hours care service staff.
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Ageing Well in the Netherlands
The City of Almere Pilots Innovative Video Services
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Scottish Centre for Telehealth, NHS Scotland
Telemedicine Pilot Promises Step Change in Healthcare Delivery to Rural and Urban Areas .
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Ageing Well in the Netherlands
The City of Almere Pilots Innovative Video Services
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Bahrain Adopts ICT Shared Services To Enhance Government Efficiency and Productivity
The Kingdom of Bahrain engaged Cisco IBSG to optimize information and all aspects of government that include HR, finance, and ICT. Cisco IBSG's work resulted in a projected unit cost at least 10 percent lower, improved communicaitons within government, and reduced downtime and security risk.
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Kenya's Pasha Centres: Development Ground for Digital Villages
Cisco IBSG's Digital Villages Development Toolkit
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The Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG) Global Public Sector Practice helps governments create a vision of the future by helping leaders understand the benefits of using innovative technology to transform government processes and public services. Our areas of focus are:
Next-Generation Government
In a world that is changing quickly, it is essential that governments adopt new technologies and business models based on innovative governance methods and practices to improve public services for citizens.
Urban Innovation
The world’s population is changing: the majority of people now live in cities, there is a major transformation in the work style from individual to collaborative, and innovation has altered the way we work and live.
Economic Growth
The well-being of societies relies on sustainable, inclusive, and distributed economic growth. In today’s world, the five capital drivers of growth—knowledge, finance, social, physical, and governance—are heavily impacted by innovation and collaboration.
Education
Education is a major concern of governments around the globe. Institutions are undergoing many transitions due to budget cuts, increased globalization, and advancements in technology.
Safety and Security
Nowhere has the public sector undergone a more strenuous reexamination of its policies, capabilities, and readiness than under the broad umbrella of public safety.
Climate Change
Moving to a low-carbon economy and adapting to large-scale risks associated with climate change requires participation from a wide range of public and private organizations.
Ageing Well
People are living longer, healthier, more-active lives than ever before. This is a noteworthy trend, with significant opportunities—individually and socially, economically and politically, across market sector and through the generations. Communication and collaboration technologies will help transform how:
- Individuals participate and communities thrive
- Employers benefit from available experience and expertise
- Health and social care needs are met, in innovative and sustainable ways
Our Practice Lead
Simon Willis
Vice President
Public Sector
IBSG
Simon Willis is vice president of the Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG) Global Public Sector Practice. Willis came to Cisco after 15 years of work in government and e-business. He has held various senior management and policy positions in the U.K. government.
After leaving government he worked for a large systems integrator where he worked mainly on transformational e-business projects in the financial services area. With the burgeoning of the Internet, Willis could see that his strongest interests—policy and IT—were beginning to converge and joined Cisco IBSG, which enabled him to combine both in equal measure.
With an increasingly Internet-savvy public, Willis saw the opportunity to transform the relationship between government and citizen by using the web as the platform. His work has centered on the empowerment of the citizen through the Internet to access education, healthcare, government services, and information at any time, from any place—while enabling far greater efficiencies in government’s operations and services.
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Forbes: Can IT Make Cities Better?
Washington Business Journal - FedBizDaily: The Disappointing Advice Filtering to the Super Committee
Sustaining Places: Cloud-Based Services Infrastructure Transforms Busan Metropolitan City
Federal Computer Week: Why Reaction to IT 'Cartel' Misses the Point
Shared Purpose: Adding Value in Urbanization
Switchboard: Meeting of the Minds for Resilient Cities
Biz Community: Research on Mobile Cloud Users Reveals Growth Opportunities
Planet-Profit Report: "Meeting of the Minds" was a sustainable success