Mining the Collaboration with Advanced Analytics
Using some of IBM's expertise in deep data mining and analysis, we will crunch all the content to help develop a
SmarterCities Open Model, which cities and groups around the world can build on to start SmarterCities grassroots projects. The data will remain free and open, under Creative Commons license, so that it can grow and be improved over time. This creative output will also flow into and inform work at IBM's new network of
Analytics Centers launching around the globe: in Berlin, Tokyo, Beijing, New York, London and Washington, D.C.
SmarterCities is an outgrowth of IBM's
Smarter Planet initiative, which is focused on how all the systems in the world -- including food production, healthcare delivery, energy use, traffic and water management -- can become more instrumented, interconnected and, as a result, intelligent.
Cities are the crossroads of these networks. They are also where human populations are increasingly concentrated, with more than 66% of humanity projected to live in major metropolitan areas by 2050.
That's where you come in: building on the
Smarter Cities Summit in New York City October 1-2, this Smarter Cities Scan is your opportunity to share ideas, propose projects and learn about the innovations that can help us become a planet of smarter cities. If anything cries out for "crowd sourcing" and collective intelligence, the city as a "system of systems" does.
Smarter Cities Homepage Smarter Planet Blog Smarter Cities News Smarter Planet | Tumblr: Cities Smarter Planet | Friendfeed Media Library Help / FAQ GG recommended this book to me, and my mom bought it for me for graduation. It's a quick read, but it's so full of what New York is all about (or rather, what New York
was all about... it was written in 1928). I'll likely be posting more excerpts from the text, but here's the first.
"A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning. The city is like poetry: it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines. The island of Manhattan is without any doubt the greatest human concentration on earth, the poem whose music is comprehensible to millions of permanent residents but whose full meaning will always remain elusive."
From Here is New York by E.B. White
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