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Blog:T-City Provides Valuable Lessons For Smart Cities: Which Future Is Now?

Several weeks ago I toured Friedrichshafen, Deutsche Telekom’s  T-City — a smart city demonstration project launched in 2006 to test the use of ICT across a real city with real...

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Blog:Energy Data Fuels Innovation (Pun Intended)

Smart meters provide consumers with granular data on how they are consuming energy — when is the meter spinning fastest, which appliances are the energy guzzlers, how much energy are those...

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Blog:Better Access To Healthcare Is Not Just For Emerging Markets — Just Ask Me

In addition to the eHealth initiatives mentioned in my previous blog, I wanted to call out another T-city program that struck close to home for me — the “tumor conference program.”...

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Blog:Join Forrester’s Smart Cities Tweet Jam, November 9th at 11am EDT/8am PDT/5pm CET

What’s your approach to the smart city? What's your role? Join Forrester Analysts, IT decision-makers, vendor strategists, and other Tweeters in our upcoming Smart Cities Tweet...

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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:Redefining Your Greenfield: Existing Cities Find Greenfield Opportunities

Unfortunately, I will not able to deliver the keynote presentation at Forrester’s upcoming Infrastructure and Operations Forum in Paris as planned.  The theme of the conference is...

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Blog:Crowdsourcing In Vermont Engages - And Empowers - Citizens

[Co-authored with Charles Green] In my last blog I asked the question, “What’s it take to be a smart city?” One of the critical elements lies in smart governance. Smart governance...

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Report:Schools Move Beyond The Basics: Competition Will Drive Technology Into The Education Market

Tech vendor strategists are attracted by the "edu" opportunity — a large and fast-growing user base and increasing reliance upon technology by governments, educators, parents, and students. But...

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Blog:Bringing The Public Back Into Public Safety Through Citizen Engagement

For some reason public safety has been a hot topic for me of late. I recently presented at ZTE’s Public Safety Summit in Dubai, where there was an audience of public safety officials and...

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Blog:Venices (And Singapores) Of The World: Imitation And Innovation

We often hear of city comparisons.  In my many years in Russia, I must have heard that St. Petersburg was the Venice of the North hundreds of times.  Another is Paris.  How many times...

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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: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:Launch A Team Challenge: Get Smart Together

Ready, set, go.  Earlier this week IBM announced their Smart City Challenge – a competition for cities to help investigate and launch smart city initiatives.  IBM will award $50...

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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:Sputnik Moments Drive Education Investment: Good News for Tech Vendors

“Winning the Future” was the theme of the recent US State of the Union address.  With the global economy and new education performance rankings as our “sputnik moment,”...

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Blog:Technology Opens Doors To New Workplaces

“Telecommuting” and flexible work spaces are nothing new. I’ve worked from home, from public libraries, airport lounges, and even Sun Microsystem’s iWork Cafes and drop-in...

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Blog:Smarter Cities Rio: From Blueprint To Proof Point For Cities Large And Small

This past week I attended IBM’s Smarter City Summit in Rio de Janeiro, the fourth in a series of global events highlighting the opportunities for cities to improve their systems — and...

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Blog:Edmonton Offers Urban Planning Classes: Opportunities To Take Citizen Engagement To The Next Level

I love the idea of the Edmonton’s Planning Academy, which offers planning courses to anyone in the city.  What a great way to get citizens involved in the complex challenges of city...

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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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Blog:Telepresence Is Cheaper Than A Helicopter And Easier To Include In A Public Sector Budget

Having temporarily relocated to Eastern France – far from Paris and closer to Switzerland and Italy – I recently had the pleasure of experiencing my closest Cisco TelePresence site in...

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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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Tool:Global Markets Face Pressures From Population And Urbanization Growth

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Blog:Orange Business Services underlines its global capabilities at its 2012 analyst event.

With Dan Bieler, Bryan Wang, Pascal Matzke In mid-July, my colleagues and I attended Orange’s annual analyst event in Paris. There were no major announcements, but we made several observations:...

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Blog:Public Sector Opportunity Is Recognized By VCs. Watch For Civic Innovation.

Today I attended a conference for Russian entrepreneurs organized by Digital October.  I’m going to digress a moment and describe the location which for a Moscow veteran is one of the...

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Blog:Making Smart Cities Safe and Safe Cities Smart

I spent a lot of time last week thinking about public safety.  What is public safety?  How do you achieve it?  Well, it seems to me that it could be anything and everything; but that...