Intel is leading a diverse group of high-tech companies to help13 "pilot" communities design, develop and deploy comprehensive solutions and services to enhance government efficiency, promote economic growth, foster greater community satisfaction and bridge the digital divide. The applications range from automating mobile workers such as meter readers and building inspectors, to increasing the safety and enhancing resource management of first responders by remotely monitoring vehicle location, to enhancing parent-teacher collaboration for improved student success.
Intel say that The Intel® Digital Communities Initiative brings together technology leaders and progressive cities worldwide to plan and deploy advanced digital services for communities. These services transform the way Digital Communities live, work, and play via a solutions framework that includes wireless broadband connectivity, core computing technologies, and interoperable applications.
Digital Communities Worldwide The Digital Communities pilots span major geographies including the Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific. Participating cities include Cleveland, Ohio; Corpus Christi, Texas; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Portland, Ore. in the United States, along with Mangaratiba, Brazil; Dusseldorf, Germany; Gyor, Hungary; Jerusalem, Israel; Principality of Monaco; Seoul, South Korea; Osaka, Japan; Taipei, Taiwan; and Westminster, United Kingdom.
Intel have made a smart move by offering government a cost effective way of linking people, knowledge and collateral for the 21st Century. Though, in the US we know that big business has been trying to stop local cities from developing its own broadband infrastructure claiming that it will in the future harm its future profits.
No wonder those big-business hyper-commercial big-dollar boys are having convulsions and attacking Dinah Neff Chief Information Officer at Philadelphia City Hall in her quest to do the right thing. Her desire is to make sure that as we move inexorably towards a digital world - certain groups of people are not left in the prehistoric analogue one
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