[P2P-F] Fwd: IBM "Smarter City" ? - can we collaborate with IBM for p2p OpenSource/Libre solutions ?

[Michel Bauwens]

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From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 5:58 AM
Subject: IBM "Smarter City" ? - can we collaborate with IBM for p2p
OpenSource/Libre solutions ?
To: p2p-urbanism-world-atlas at googlegroups.com


Does any of you know - or is any of you involved in the IBM Smarter City
Program ?

some links :

http://www.thesmartercity.com/

http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/smarter_cities/cities/index.html


I am looking forward to distributed approaches,
and this kind of planning and urban emergency response project looks pretty
centralized till now

http://www.fastcompany.com/1712443/building-a-smarter-favela-ibm-signs-up-rio

Could IBM and the Rio de Janeiro politicians be interested in supporting
open source / libre software ,
and empower populations for their own p2p shared and accessible data by all
and for all,
as to enable response to "mudslides and floods"...

IBM has an understanding of OpenSource approaches...
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*http://www.ibm.com/ibm/governmentalprograms/ipossw.html*

*excerpt :*
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*Policy
IBM believes that open source software should be leveraged as a part of a
national IT architecture but open standards are the true facilitators of a
smarter, more agile and transparent government.*

To whom will the "multi-billion upgrade" benefit ?

Perhaps such projects already exist ?

In this case, I have the impression it sounds pretty centralized...
but I am not sure if they will use closed standards, closed databases, and
centralized "control rooms"...


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http://www.fastcompany.com/1712443/building-a-smarter-favela-ibm-signs-up-rio
 Building a Smarter Favela: IBM Signs Up RioBY GREG
LINDSAY<http://www.fastcompany.com/user/159824>Mon
Dec 27, 2010
 A new operations center features an impressive high-tech centerpiece--a
weather forecasting system built atop IBM Research’s “Deep Thunder” software
and tailored to Rio’s climate and topography.

 IBM is announcing this morning an agreement with the city of Rio de Janeiro
to build a “Single City Operations Center,” or what amounts to a control
room for the sprawling megalopolis. The center will draw upon data from
dozens of municipal departments and public agencies.

While the system will initially focus on predicting the kinds of mudslides
and floods that killed hundreds last
April<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_2010_Rio_de_Janeiro_floods_and_mudslides>
and
left 15,000 homeless, it’s designed, ultimately, to monitor and respond to
any type of emergency--just in time for the city to host both the 2014 World
Cup and 2016 Summer Olympic Games.

The deal is IBM’s most ambitious smarter city project to date; previous
efforts have tended to be single-purpose programs in developed cities, such
as a congestion pricing scheme for London or water management in Dubuque.
But Rio is a different situation--a bona fide megacity in one of the world’s
fastest growing economies, in the midst of a multi-billion dollar
infrastructure upgrade ahead of the World Cup. Although financial terms were
not disclosed, the deal illuminates just how indispensable IBM hopes to
become to the daily operations of Rio--and how it plans to do the same for
cities everywhere.



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