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  • Through a Different Lens - article by Wendy Haig and Uzair Dada in Digital Communities

    A federal scorecard recently released by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) graded the maturity of 75 metropolitan areas for their emergency agencies' ability to communicate and coordinate during a disaster.

    According to the scorecard, only six out of 75 metropolitan areas received high scores.

  • Digital Communities Race - article by Wendy Haig and Uzair Dada in Digital Communities

    If digital communities intend to be communities of the future, their planners and decision-makers must take into account the global landscape. The magnitude of global change and its impact on communities is critical to understand. When leaders incorporate this data into their planning, they significantly increase and enhance their ability to build competitive and sustainable future communities.

  • Government Technology publishes Digital Communities Special Report: Critical Mass: How digital technology will redefine the way you live PDF Format (PDF, 1.2Mb)

    Digital communities are where you live — that’s “you” as in Time magazine’s Person of the Year for 2006, which recognizes and celebrates “the small contributions of millions of people and making them matter.” In beating out an impressive list of villains and heroes for the distinction, the magazine’s editors contend that “you” — by which they mean the 120 million Americans who are active online as users and creators of content and services — are changing the world by redefining it around your preferences and predilections, and by the technologies you use and the way you use them.

  • Googled by the Enemy by Wendy Haig — February 6, 2007 — businessweek.com

    The use of Google Earth maps to target allies in Iraq underscores the failure to get technology into the right hands.

  • Uzair Dada in Intel Case Study: Mobile by Design: The Mobilized Solution Guide PDF Format (PDF, 336kb)

    To satisfy the needs of mobile users, developers must ensure applications continue to work regardless of network conditions and provide users a simple, yet powerful mechanism to complete their tasks in an efficient manner. Although it is possible to hand-craft solutions that support both online and offline processing, a wiser strategy is to leverage third party solutions that are designed specifically for mobile tasks at hand.

  • A Digital Emergency Kit by Wendy Haig — January 15, 2007 — Family Security Matters

    We love to communicate especially on our cell phones and over the Internet. There are some easy to use, inexpensive technologies that you might want to consider having on hand that increase the likelihood of being able to communicate with your loved ones in case of an emergency. Since the majority of us now communicate via cell phone or Internet, it is important to understand how those items might be affected during a disaster or emergency.

  • "The Weapon of Mass Communication" by Wendy Haig — December 18, 2006 — Family Security Matters

    We must begin to react faster and smarter than countries like Iran, who are blatantly threatening us with their nuclear weapons development and support of lethal terrorist organizations. They are committed to our demise, and it is time that we more effectively utilize some unconventional technological weapons to thwart their efforts.

  • "Using Tech to Fight Terror" by Wendy Haig — November 7, 2006 — businessweek.com

    We face a growing, insidious threat from terrorist movements around the world. But we can limit its growth, and perhaps reverse it, by ensuring broad access to technology and the information it delivers. The leaders of corporations, governments, and communities who understand this principle—and are driven by its urgency—will also realize social, economic, and business growth as an outcome.

  • OCC: Leapfrogging Today's Enterprise Productivity Benchmarks by Uzair Dada — May 23, 2003 — mobileimperative.com

    The technology enhancements that have enabled worker productivity over the past decade are unparalleled in history. The proliferation of desktop productivity applications (first stage) were quickly followed by the accessibility and ubiquity of the Internet (second stage).

Insights & Ideas

  • Global Technology Distribution: A Catalyst for Freedom or Destabalization in the 21st Century PDF (PDF, 28kb)

    In our 21st century world, we face a growing, insidious threat from the world terrorism movement. But we can limit that growth, and perhaps even reverse it, by ensuring broad access to technology and the information it delivers. The leaders of corporations, governments and communities who understand this principal –and are driven by its urgency – will also realize social, economic and business growth as an outcome.

  • Bringing the World Together Online: Global Technology Distribution PDF (PDF, 48kb)

    It is no longer sufficient to justify access to the internet and technology for billions of unconnected people primarily for social, educational or economic development. In the world we live in today access to technology is a global security necessity. Corporations, governments and community leaders that understand and are driven by the urgency of this principal, will also realize social, economic and business growth as an outcome.

Press Releases

  • Government Technology Expands Digital Communities Program to Accelerate Technology Adoption for Community Leaders

    Digital Communities is the first-of-its-kind program to provide a forum for community decision-makers to learn more about IT providers' best-of-breed solutions, making it easier for local governments to address their technology needs. While a growing number of communities are using innovative technologies to enhance safety and security, citizen satisfaction and economic vitality, the process of understanding which solutions to deploy is often cumbersome, and confusing.

  • Intermec Joins Digital Communities Initiative to Support Public Sector Technology Modernization

    Intermec Inc. has joined Intel, Cisco Systems, Panasonic and Accela as a sponsor of a Digital Communities initiative to help municipalities take advantage of mobile and wireless computing systems to improve efficiency and responsiveness. The initial focus of the group's work is on six segments of the public sector where technology can provide significant benefits: criminal justice, public service and logistics, education, health services, first-alert response and public safety.

  • Sightspeed Extends Reach Through Digital Home Starter Kit at CompUSA PDF (PDF, 124kb)

    SightSpeed, Inc., the award-winning service that turns your PC or Macintosh into easy-to-use voice and video phone, today announced SightSpeed 4.0 availability at CompUSA® through an agreement with Intel Corporation.

  • Sightspeed Eases Back-to-School Goodbyes Through Starter Kit at CompUSA PDF (PDF, 160kb)

    SightSpeed, Inc. today announced the availability of its award-winning service at CompUSA® through an agreement with Intel Corporation. CompUSA will provide customers who purchase any notebook PC with Intel® Centrino™ mobile technology a Back-to-School Starter Kit CD that includes a free, 90-day trial of SightSpeed. Using SightSpeed’s software, a web camera and a new notebook PC with Intel Centrino mobile technology, students can see and talk to family members back home as they begin the new academic year at colleges across the nation.