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==Topics of Smarter Planet initiative<ref>http://www.ibm.com/ibm/ideasfromibm/us/smartplanet/index.shtml</ref>== |
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Revision as of 15:14, 18 January 2010
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| Company type | Public (NYSE: IBM) |
|---|---|
| Industry | Creating ideas for a Smarter Planet |
| Founded | 2008 |
| Founder | Samuel J. Palmisano |
| Headquarters | , U.S. |
Key people | Samuel J. Palmisano (Chairman, President and CEO) |
| Products | list |
| Website | IBM.com Smarter Planet |
Smarter Planet is a corporate initiative of the information technology company IBM. The initiative asserts that information technology can be used to make the world's systems and industries more efficient and productive.
Origins
In November 2008, IBM’s CEO, Sam Palmisano, during a speech at the Council on Foreign Relations, outlined a new agenda for building a Smarter Planet. The premise holds that the world's systems and industries are becoming more instrumented, interconnected and intelligent, and that leaders and citizens can take advantage of this state of affairs to improve these systems and industries.
Advertising Campaign
IBM has created an advertising campaign to support the Smarter Planet initiative.
In 2008 and 2009, IBM ran a series of full-page advertisements in newspapers such as the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. Each of these "op-ads" featured an essay about a system or industry which IBM claims can be made "smarter" through the application of technology.[1]
IBM, under its Smarter Planet advertising campaign is supporting TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) Talks.[2]
Topics of Smarter Planet initiative[3]
These are the current topics and some examples of IBM's Smarter Planet initiative.
- Energy
- Traffic
- Food
- Infrastructure
- Retail
- Intelligence
- Stimulus
- Banking
- Telecom
- Oil
- Health-care
- Cities
- "IBM Sets Out to Make a City in Iowa ‘Smarter’": IBM is setting about to create sensors and software to reduce the use and need for water, electricity and transportation in Dubuque, Iowa.[4]
- Water
- Public Safety
- Buildings
- Work
- Rail
- Products
- Education
- Government
- Cloud Computing
xkcd Comics created for a Smarter Planet
In June 2009, the Smarter Planet blog team asked Randall Munroe the creator of xkcd to create a few comics for their blog.[5][6][7]
External links
- Building a Smarter Planet Blog
- Official page
- Smarter Cities on a Smarter Planet
- Smarter Planet Twitter Account
- Smarter Planet Tumblr Account
References
- ^ [Behind IBM's Quest for a 'Smarter Planet' http://makower.typepad.com/joel_makower/2009/01/behind-ibms-quest-for-a-smarter-planet.html]
- ^ http://www.ted.com/pages/view/id/339
- ^ http://www.ibm.com/ibm/ideasfromibm/us/smartplanet/index.shtml
- ^ http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/17/the-smartest-us-city-is-dubuque/
- ^ http://smarterplanet.tumblr.com/post/125265455/we-asked-randall-munroe-the-genius-behind-the
- ^ http://xkcd.com/about/
- ^ http://forums.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=18497&start=40#p1777560
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