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Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Integrated IT Solutions: cities pull together to aid government

The geographical distance among Chicago, Los Angeles, Boston, New York, Seattle, Wasington, DC, and San Francisco on a map remains the same. What has changed is the how we connect and converge these cities with the power of technology -- the internet. It's not just the cities that have come together, the world has too. People and societies are breaking barriers of knowledge gap and information sharing. The flattening of the world is taking at a head-spinning velocity. At this speed, we must also survive. To survive, we must be efficient.

The U.S. government has taken bold steps to become technologically efficient. President Obama has set up a new body of administration to oversee the progress of technological advancement. Recently, seven U.S. cities have decided to pull together their resources to create robust IT networks and infreastructures for the government. The following article offers a snapshot of that initiative.

G7: CIOs From Seven Big-Cities Work Together to Develop Open-Source IT Solutions

Source: www.govtech.com

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