News@Cisco: EMEA Government News

Cisco Agreement with the Government of Portugal to Improve Access to Networking Training, Narrow the ICT Skills Gap and Increase Employment Opportunities

Fri, 09 May 2008 07:30:00 PST

LISBON - May 9, 2008 - The prime minister of Portugal, Jose Socrates, together with nine Ministers signed today a broad agreement with Cisco to help bridge the anticipated skills gap in the networking sector through the expansion of Cisco's Networking Academy across Portugal. As a result of this agreement, the number of people studying information and communications technology (ICT) in the country is expected grow from around 3,000 to 10,000 by 2011. Local networking academies ...

City of Lisbon, the Portuguese Ministry of Education, EDP (Electricity of Portugal) and Cisco Outline Innovative Integrated Energy Efficiency Project

Fri, 09 May 2008 04:00:00 PST

LISBON - May 8, 2008 - Today, the Mayor of Lisbon, Antonio Costa, outlined the scope of the agreement signed with Cisco, the Portuguese Ministry of Education and the EDP (Electriciy of Portugal) to create a sustainable energy efficient environment for the citizens of Lisbon. This is part of the City of Lisbon's commitment to Connected Urban Development - www.connectedurbandevelopment.org - as part of Cisco's role in ...

Cisco Green

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 04:10:00 PST

Cisco Green March 3, 2008 At Cisco, we're committed to helping people work, live, play, and learn in an environmentally-friendly way. We are reducing our own carbon footprint, engaging customers, ...

Connected Urban Development Conference 2008

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 03:55:00 PST

Connecting Cities: Achieving Innovation through Sustainability February 20 - 21, 2008 Cisco and the city and county of San Francisco are hosting the first Connected Urban Development Global ...

Nordic Region Still Leads Network Readiness Index - but for How Long?

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 04:00:00 PST

LONDON, December 18, 2007 - A report based on research from the World Economic Forum and INSEAD, published today, highlights the continuing dominance of the Nordic region in measures of information technology readiness but also points to factors that could undermine this success. As competition becomes truly global, advanced economies realize that their success depends on the acquisition, building and sharing of knowledge. To accomplish this in a sustainable manner, a country must invest in ...

Yvon Le Roux of Cisco Previews the 2007 Cisco Public Sector Summit at Nobel Week

Mon, 10 Dec 2007 04:00:00 PST

December 10, 2007 There is a buzz in the public sector. Government departments worldwide are feeling empowered to apply the lessons learned in the wider Web 2.0 world to the delivery of citizen services. Far from being bureaucratic and arduous, today's public sector processes are increasingly designed to be online, on-demand and on target to reduce time, cost and effort for users and government departments alike. This trend that has been years in the making, ...

Cisco Delivers Mobile Government Solution to Help Ensure Secure, Reliable Services for State and Local Governments

Mon, 15 Oct 2007 04:00:00 PST

NEW ORLEANS, October 15, 2007 - Cisco® today unveiled its Cisco Mobile Government solution, including partners and an integrated suite of products and applications, here at the International Association of Chiefs of Police Annual Conference. The Mobile Government solution provides state and local governments with the tools to craft an overall strategy for implementing and benefiting from mobile technologies. The suite of products and applications helps enable more efficient and ...

EADS Defence & Security and Cisco to Collaborate on Accelerating Development of Next-Generation Defence and Security Communications Networks

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 07:00:00 PST

EADS Defence & Security (DS) and Cisco will cooperate to bring to market network centric IP solutions for highly secure integrated communications across armed forces and civil defence. Memorandum of understanding underpins collaboration in defence and communications systems, C4I systems, battlefield mobility, homeland security, public safety and professional mobile radio. LONDON, September 13, 2007 - Defence and Communications Systems, an ...

Cisco Invests in Building a Collaborative Partner Ecosystem for Industry Solutions

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 20:00:00 PST

DUBLIN, Ireland, September 13, 2007 - As part of a continued effort to help build a collaborative and adaptive channel to accelerate customer and partner success, Cisco® today introduced the Cisco Industry Solutions Partner Network. The new Industry Solutions Partner Network will engage, enable and reward a global community of channel partners, application providers and device manufacturers to collaborate and deliver industry-specific solutions that address the business needs ...

Young Foundation Director Geoff Mulgan Sets out Six Themes for Public Sector Success at Cisco Event

Tue, 28 Aug 2007 04:00:00 PST

August 28, 2007 Working in the public sector? Looking for pointers as to how information technology can help your organization deliver greater value to citizens? Then one of the best places you could start is with Geoff Mulgan, director of the London, U.K.-based Young Foundation. A speaker at last year's Cisco-sponsored Public Services Summit at Nobel Week, Mulgan is one of the United Kingdom's most respected public policy thinkers. He founded the think-tank ...

Shared Services to Help Unlock USD$3.3 Trillion in Government Cash Worldwide

Tue, 03 Jul 2007 04:00:00 PST

LONDON, July 3, 2007 - The image of the public sector as slow to innovate is rapidly becoming a thing of the past as governments are using advanced technology to consolidate back-office functions, a report released today concludes. The Shared Services in Government 2: Building a Platform for Better Public Services at Lower Cost study, conducted independently by A.T. Kearney with sponsorship from Cisco®, has uncovered major service improvements and cost reductions as a result of " ...

A.T. Kearney's Ian Morton and Yvon Le Roux of Cisco Debate the Advance of Government Shared Services

Tue, 03 Jul 2007 04:00:00 PST

July 3, 2007 The theory is simple. Instead of having multiple similar back and middle-office functions across different public sector organizations in a country, why not converge them and make huge savings in the process? Shared Services, have been implemented in the private sector with great success and have the potential to create efficiencies which will unlock massive reserves of taxpayer money, helping to decrease national deficits and provide cash for front-line ...

Cineca, Italy's Largest Computing Center, Expands Research and Accelerates Projects with Cisco and IBM High-Performance Computing

Mon, 25 Jun 2007 23:00:00 PST

BOLOGNA, Italy, 26 June 2007 - Research projects that affect peoples' lives, such as predictions of volcanic eruptions or the development of new medicines and treatment, could soon be completed faster and at a lower cost. Italian universities and research organizations that use Cineca, the largest computing center in Italy and one of the largest in world, will benefit from the recent deployment of high- ...

Cisco Public Services Summit Gives Civil Servants the Means to Inspire, Innovate and Empower

Wed, 13 Jun 2007 10:45:00 PST

A casual interloper at last year's Public Services Summit @ Nobel Week could have been forgiven for thinking they had stumbled on a youth conference. Speakers at the event, co-hosted by the City of Stockholm and Cisco Systems, Inc, projected viral ads and YouTube videos onto giant screens; delegates left for guided visits of mobile-enabled shopping malls and digital arenas; and the buzz was all about blogs, ...

Cisco Helps Telford & Wrekin Council Integrate and Transform Community Services

Tue, 05 Jun 2007 04:00:00 PST

LONDON, June 5, 2007 - Telford & Wrekin Council in the West Midlands will transform local community services by using a Cisco® Unified Communications system to integrate multiple agency services and deliver them to residents in a way that is transparent to the customer, even in residents' homes. Children and parents will be able to visit their local schools to access not just education but also a range of council services such as social care and benefits as well as non-council services ...

Amsterdam Mayor Job Cohen and Cisco's Nicola Villa on Sustainability and Connected Urban Development

Tue, 05 Jun 2007 04:00:00 PST

June 5, 2007 It is a very short week which could mean a lot for a long time to come. Amsterdam's Sustainability Week, actually lasting just four days from June 2 to June 5, has been designed to bring together government, the private sector, academics and citizens in general to focus on one of the most pressing issues of our time: creating a sustainable future. As a major sponsor of the event, through its involvement in the Clinton ...

Deutsches Forschungsnetz Creates National Research and Education Network Based on Cisco IP NGN Architecture and Featuring the Cisco CRS-1

Tue, 22 May 2007 04:00:00 PST

COPENHAGEN, May 22, 2007 - Cisco® today announced at the TERENA Networking Conference that it has been selected by Deutsches Forschungsnetz (DFN), Germany's National Research and Education Network (NREN), to deliver the core routing platform for a new national backbone that will put the NREN at the forefront of innovation in Europe while delivering significant operational expenditure savings. X-WiN is operated by the DFN Society (DFN-Verein) - a nonprofit association ...

Core Network for World's Largest Multinational Communications Interoperability Exercise Moves to All- Internet Protocol, Powered by Cisco

Thu, 10 May 2007 04:00:00 PST

BAUMHOLDER, Germany, May 10, 2007 - As global defense organizations increasingly move to Internet Protocol networking, this year's Combined Endeavor is advancing to an all-IP core network infrastructure, powered by Cisco equipment. Combined Endeavor 2007 is a two-week operation designed to test and document the interoperability of vital communication systems of 42 nations for multinational forces deployed in humanitarian, peacekeeping and disaster-relief efforts. The exercise's large-scale ...