CUD 2008.02.20.1 Opening
February 19, 2008 by Chris | permalink
Connected Urban Development Global Summit
Nicola Villa , program leader for the CUD, opened with a short review how the CUD project came to pass. The fundamental problem is climate change and the city. ICT contributes about 2% of greenhouse gas emissions; about the same amount as the airline industry.
Mayor Gavin Newsom, City and County of San Francisco, spoke very passionately about the of the evolution of the interaction between Cisco and the City; a strong partnership.
John Chambers, Chairman and CEO, Cisco. Technology Innovation as a Drivers of Sustainable economic growth. He opened with a sort video from Bill Clinton. Leadership is the ability to make creams come true, not just to make dreams apparent.
The pillars of global competitiveness: Education; Infrastructure; Innovation / Market Transition; Supportive government; Collaboration
Catching market transitions has been the key to the success of Cisco. One of the undeniable realities of today - climate change is now no longer undeniable.
Sustainability is one of today’s most significant market transitions.. we have to paint a vision of what is possible. The key is the ‘and mode’ rather than ‘or mode’. He stated that all industries mst be part of the solution.
operations – how to operate
products - better, cleaner and leaner
architecture
employees – inspiring employees to action
new business models. CISCO is acting on the commitment. They have reduced their carbon load by 10% per employee. He talked about a recent global meeting which they had in which over 5000 attended with 3000 attending virtually from other countries.
Networks as a platform for sustainability.
Internet Phase 1 : transactional productivity
Oders over the internet, customer self-service, employee self-service, core vs context, out-tasking manufacturing. All of the bits were instrumental in productivity growth.
Internet Phase 2:
Collaboration and Web 2.0
Co-Labouring – working towards a common goal.
Technologies that enable user collaboration.
What can we do collaboratively that we could not do by ourselves????
CUD Cities.
The first three have been: San Francisco, Seoul, Amsterdam
The next four will be : Madrid, Hamburg, Lisbon, Birmingham
The CUD program will be focused on
Teleworking
Telepresence
Home broadband
Shared offices
Remote services
Traffic Management
Smart congestion tax programs
Dynamic Traffic-flow control.
Public Transportation
IP enabled public transport
Transportation on demand
Intelligent, car-pooling, shared taxi/minibus
Municipals Co2 reduction
Teleworking
Transportation optimization
Clean ICT
Connected real estate
Smart communities
Active citizenship
Innovative Green Business Models
