Digital Cities Winners Showcase I-Seminar: The original event was broadcast on: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 - Duration: 60-minutes
Special Report: A Foundation for the Future of Local Government: In fiscal 2008, governors' budget proposals show a lower expected growth rate of just 4.2 percent, with expenditures expected to total $642... more
Why Mobile Device Management is Critical to IT: Learn more about how IT organizations can manage mobile devices as corporate assets, and safeguard the corporate data that is accessed on them.

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Special Report: A Foundation for the Future of Local Government: In fiscal 2008, governors' budget proposals show a lower expected growth rate of just 4.2 percent, with expenditures expected to total $642 billion. Pressures will likely increase in health care, criminal justice, employee benefits and pensions, and physical infrastructure -- in part to make up for the lingering effects of cuts made in previous years. Even so, demand for digital infrastructure is increasing.
Year One Digital Communities Survey: In November 2005, Government Technology magazine was commissioned to conduct an online survey amongst its subscribers. The focus of this survey was the priorities and challenges jurisdictions face as they moving towards a digital community transformation.
Year One Digital Communities Survey: Eleven months after the launch of Digital Communities initiative, Government Technology magazine conducted a second online survey amongst its subscribers to assess and better understand the priorities and challenges facing jurisdictions as they undergo digital community transformation. The new survey provides insights both on the impact of the initiative and the future mobile procurement plans of subscribers.
Digital Communities Special Report: Critical Mass: How Digital Technology Will Redefine the Way You Live
Municipal Wireless: Evaluating "Public-Private Partnerships" and Other Private Business Models: This article is the second in a series excerpted from an important new report from the Institute for Local Self-Reliance entitled Localizing the Internet: Five Ways Public Ownership Solves the U.S. Broadband Problem.
Five Ways Public Ownership Solves the U.S. Broadband Problem: This article is excerpted from an important new report from the Institute for Local Self-Reliance. Entitled Localizing the Internet: Five Ways Public Ownership Solves the U.S. Broadband Problem, author Becca Vargo Daggett argues that a publicly owned information infrastructure is the key to healthy competition, universal access, and non-discriminatory rates.

Audio/Video

Nortel Municipal Wireless Solution Video: See Nortel's Municipal Wireless Solution in action at their lab in RTP, N.C. This video gives you the highlights of what the solution has to offer.
Cisco Building a Massive Wi-Fi Network in Italy: This video explains how the network, which will stretch across 4,800 square kilometers and deliver broadband applications to more than 200 rural...
Fireside Chat with Craig Settles of Successful.com: Podcast: Martyn Levy chats with Craig Settles. Craig is author of the book Fighting the Good Fight for Municipal Wireless, as well as being President of Successful.com, a wireless consulting company. In this podcast, Martyn and Craig cover such topics as issues surrounding muni Wi-Fi business models, the key drivers for the deployment of municipal wireless networks, obtaining ROI via productivity gains and efficiencies as well as revenue, funding digital inclusion, and key applications for municipal workers. Craig also talks about the current North American municipal wireless business model trends and signs off with his forecast for Muni Wi-Fi for 2007.
Video: Networking the City of Dayton with Cisco: Harborlink Network provided the City of Dayton with a mesh network, making wireless technology available throughout the city.
Digital Inclusion In Brazil: Wireless mesh technology from Cisco allows the small, isolated town of Tirendentes, Brazil to open up to the world.
Video: Cisco Digital Signage Demonstration: Cisco's new Digital Signage solution that delivers live and on-demand content in various formats from wired to wireless devices.

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Case Studies / White Papers

Property and Evidence White Paper: The foundation for an effective and complete property and evidence system.
"What About the Paper" White Paper: Electronic and Physical Records
Delivering Constituent-Focused Service Through Enterprise Content Management: Constituent-focused service requires agencies within a government enterprise or across levels of government to collaborate and share information so that each constituent receives the greatest value when interacting with government. An important aspect of interoperable information management is Enterprise Content Management (ECM), which incorporates both strategies and technologies to capture, manage, store, preserve and deliver content related to organizational processes.
A City of Wireless Ambitions: A Nortel Municipal Wireless solution is now allowing the City of Greenville to provide free downtown Internet access.
Bringing New Businesses to Madison: Cisco wireless solution enhances city's citizen services, public safety and economic development.
Should Municipalities Provide Wireless Internet Service?: This report from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission offers guidance for policymakers. Rather than attempt to a one-size-fits all answer for every municipality, the report sets forth a decision-tree framework with a variety of options for municipal wireless Internet deployments.

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Best Practices

High Performance Data Solution Position Paper: Cost effective wide area network enables public safety agencies to capture the promise of mobile data for enhanced efficiency, safety and situational awareness.
IntelliViewer Mobile Command System: Visual intelligence that's available at the command center is now accessible and useful to personnel on foot and behind the wheel.
Make your first response the best response.: Panasonic's and AirVisual's innovative, fully integrated Total Security Solution enables police officers and first responders to remotely view live/recorded surveillance video while in transit to potentially volatile situations.