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Blog:Will Russia Really Change? Cisco Places Its Bet. But Seeing Is Believing.

Russian president Dmitry Medvedev toured Silicon Valley last week, meeting with tech vendor executives and local entrepreneurs.  At Cisco, Medvedev participated in a telepresence session and...

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Report:Africa's ICT Forecast Looks Increasingly Cloudy

Understanding The Cloud Computing Opportunities In Africa

After years of stagnant enterprise spending on information and communications technology (ICT), Africa is gearing up for a new period of growth. As political stability across the continent gradually...

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Blog:Emerging Markets Report Optimism And IT Budget Increases

Last week, Forrester released results from our “Global IT Budgets, Priorities, And Emerging Technology Tracking Survey.” Highlights of the survey are reported in Chris Mines’...

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Blog:"Smart" Is Here To Stay: Smart City Tweet Jam Summary

Forrester’s Smart City Tweet Jam was a great success.  On Tuesday morning/afternoon/evening, smart city followers around the globe participated in an hour of intense tweeting on smart...

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Blog:Business Models Trump Technology As Enablers Of Gov2.0

Local governments continue to evaluate their short- and long-term objectives and the tools they need to achieve them.  As they do, it is increasingly obvious that those tools include not only...

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Blog:Smarter Cities: Incorporate The "How To" Of Execution Into The Vision Itself

According to IBM’s CEO Sam Palmisano, “vision without execution is delusion.”  That saying stuck in the minds of attendees at IBM’s SmarterCities event in Shanghai last...

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Blog:Open Data Is An Asset! New US Federal Guidance For Reaching Its Full Potential.

  The recent Executive Order Making Open and Machine Readable the New Default for Government Information and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Memorandum Open Data Policy –...

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Blog:Start With Business Smarts, Not Necessarily Specific Smart Technology

If there is one theme that jumps out of my most recent client discussions, it is the need for business smarts in our approach to smart cities.  Cities are faced with a barrage of vendor...

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Blog:IBM's Intelligent Operations Center for Smart Cities: Think Cities not just Departments.

Government investment in ICT is growing. At Forrester we expect the overall government ICT budget to reach $346 billion in 2011, growing to $382 billion in 2012 or by about 10%.  That makes...

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Blog:Win-Win Tech Curriculum Collaboration: Vendors Contribute To Solve Skilled Labor Shortages

A few months ago I wrote about my first trip to Rio. One of the observations that had jumped out at me at the time was the repeated message from IT services firms: Lack of skilled labor was...

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Tool:Cities Are More Bullish Than Others In Some Areas — More Report Spending Increases

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Report:Smart City Leaders Need Better Governance Tools

Smart City Governance Brings New Opportunities For Tech Providers

Interest in smart cities has taken off like wildfire. Cities of all sizes navigate the challenge — growing demand for new constituent services within increasingly constrained budgets —...

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Blog:From Russia With Open Data: Discussion At Moscow Urban Forum

  I was invited by the Moscow city government to participate in the Moscow Urban Forum, a conference designed to bring urban policy experts together to discuss opportunities for Moscow. Last...

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Report:Introducing The New Cabinet-Level City CIO

Strategic CIOs Collaboratively Build The Foundation Of Smart Cities

Local governments must address the needs of diverse and often growing constituencies with limited and often dwindling resources — following that age-old mandate of doing more with less....

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Blog:Getting Smarter? Yes. Public Sector Does Expect To Spend More On Technology.

Last week I was in Dubai and got a chance to visit GITEX, the largest IT event in the Middle East.  I was very interested and impressed to see the “Government” pod.  I’ve...

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Blog:If A Picture Paints A Thousand Words, Maps Are Just Off The Charts!

I’ve always been a map person with maps showing up in my house as floor rugs, shower curtains, clothing, dishes, jigsaw puzzles etc.  So the ESRI User Conference was right up my...

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Report:Where In The World?

A Structured Methodology For Prioritizing Geographic Market Entry

Many technology vendors are going global, seeking new markets to make up for the maturation of traditional ones. And rightly so; our Forrsights Budgets And Priorities Tracker Survey, Q2 2010, found...

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Tool:Global Markets Face Pressures From Population And Urbanization Growth

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Blog:Open Cities, Smart Cities: Data Drives Smart City Initiatives

[co-authored with Eddie Radcliffe] Last year, Internet inventor Tim Berners-Lee called for access to raw data as the next step in the evolution of the Internet. Apparently Transport For London (TFL,...

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Blog:Russian Cities Will Get Smarter... By Law.

Russian IT decision-makers are optimistic about their prospects for the next 12 months, according to Forrester’s Global Budgets And Priorities Tracker Survey, Q4 2010 – and, surprisingly,...

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Blog:3-1-1 Meets Open Data: Open 311 Empowers Citizens and Extends Smart City Governance

In my last blog, I discussed the 3-1-1 initiative, which was in many cases the instigator for creating citizen services portals and a channel not only for delivering services but also for registering...

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Report:Opportunities In Education's Global Expansion

Tap Global Enterprise Experience and Local Expertise

In recent years, "study abroad" has taken on a whole new meaning — on brand new campuses. Many universities have established satellite campuses in host countries across the globe. These...

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Blog:ONE SMALL STEP FOR CREDIT AGRICOLE, ONE GIANT LEAP FOR THE DATA ECONOMY

Banks have a reputation for being stodgy and conservative. But Credit Agricole (CA) has broken the stereotype. I had a great discussion a few weeks ago with Bernard Larrivière, Director of...

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Blog:Do sGovernment And fGovernment Get A “Like”?

The word is that promise of sCommerce (social commerce) and fCommerce (Facebook commerce) is more speculative than proven. What about the role of social media in government and governance? Mayors,...

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Blog:IBM's CityOne Makes A Global Debut

CityOne, IBM's new Smarter City Simulation game, is interesting. But who will really play? IBM introduced a new Smarter City Simulation game yesterday.  I took a few minutes to play around...