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Resurgent phoenix Jason, As data capture increases and individuals learn to manipulate that data government IT systems have to become more agile. Some areas you can implement one large system and utilize it...
mejiac To complement your article, I think an additional step is to plan implementations of electrical grids to allow more electrical/hybrid vehicles to drive our streets, reaching a wider scope. I'm aware...
mejiac Excellent article John. If we take all of these examples, they provide a comprehensive case study on how IT can be leverage to take cities a step forward and pave the way to a new way of running...
Mary Jander I'm interested in hearing whether any of our urbanites have experience or insights to share regarding our findings. Sound off here on the message board!
Mary Jander Agreed, Stotheco. Sometimes I think the lifestyle change people are promoting a sense of control that doesn't exist. Please don't get me wrong: Tons of unpleasant diseases and disorders respond...
stotheco You're right that there is truly no substitute or replacement for hands-on healthcare. You can organize all the preventive programs and seminars you want, but that won't stop people from getting...
Resurgent phoenix Thanks Mary, I have a friend who survived Hurricane Katrina and now lives in our city. We we discussing this the other day. I am sure we can prepare a rough draft ... take it too the...
Venks we must remember that crowdsourced evidence, is only part of the process that solves a crime. Yeah, you are probably right, thinbluedba. This is only a part of the solution. But, I was trying...
thinbluedba That's an very interesting scenario! To counter that tactic, we can use generally agreed upon markers for that specific scene, probably video and images gathered from reliable sources, and compare...
thinbluedba The mob mentality and vigilantes definitely occurred with the Vancouver riots as well. Two studies were conducted that actually concluded that sort of behaviour actually is a detriment to investigations....
Nicole Ferraro Re: "I'm not sure if even having a system for the public will help, as we are naturally social animals are like to share and talk and the anonymity of the internet results in a lack of accountability...
richheap Thanks Susan. I knew this had happened in the Boston bombing, but didn't know that other part of the story. I don't want to speculate whether the accusations had an impact but it does show that we...
Susan Leach "My worry is that when the info also spreads quickly around the internet, it brings out every bedroom super-sleuth wannabe who start using 'evidence' to make false accusations against innocent people." This...
richheap I'm sceptical about crowdsourced evidence. I don't mind if relevant photos or videos go to the police, even though it's an awful lot of information for them to trawl through. But it is a problem...
Venks Thanks for the blog, Jason. Its a real eye-opener seeking help fromthe general public incase of mishaps. Its heartening to see that the public is over helpful to the law enforcement authorities in...
Mary Jander Indeed, it seemed to me from close scrutiny of the results that IT pros were interested in green datacenters, but had their hands tied about just how to proceed. As a result, many don't have plans....
thinbluedba Hi Nicole, You definitely raise an important point. Even just by looking at traditional journalism with TV news, there have been cases where the criminals are watching the news as the event...
Nicole Ferraro Yes! I believe that's exactly what happened after the Vancouver riots, actually, if I'm remembering correctly. Facebook pages and sites were launched where people could upload photos of the individuals...
Nicole Ferraro Yes! I believe that's exactly what happened after the Vancouver riots, actually, if I'm remembering correctly. Facebook pages and sites were launched where people could upload photos of the individuals...
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Resurgent phoenix Jason, As data capture increases and individuals learn to manipulate that data government IT systems have to become more agile. Some areas you can implement one large system and utilize it...
mejiac To complement your article, I think an additional step is to plan implementations of electrical grids to allow more electrical/hybrid vehicles to drive our streets, reaching a wider scope. I'm aware...
mejiac Excellent article John. If we take all of these examples, they provide a comprehensive case study on how IT can be leverage to take cities a step forward and pave the way to a new way of running...
Mary Jander I'm interested in hearing whether any of our urbanites have experience or insights to share regarding our findings. Sound off here on the message board!
Mary Jander Agreed, Stotheco. Sometimes I think the lifestyle change people are promoting a sense of control that doesn't exist. Please don't get me wrong: Tons of unpleasant diseases and disorders respond...
stotheco You're right that there is truly no substitute or replacement for hands-on healthcare. You can organize all the preventive programs and seminars you want, but that won't stop people from getting...
Resurgent phoenix Thanks Mary, I have a friend who survived Hurricane Katrina and now lives in our city. We we discussing this the other day. I am sure we can prepare a rough draft ... take it too the...
Venks we must remember that crowdsourced evidence, is only part of the process that solves a crime. Yeah, you are probably right, thinbluedba. This is only a part of the solution. But, I was trying...
thinbluedba That's an very interesting scenario! To counter that tactic, we can use generally agreed upon markers for that specific scene, probably video and images gathered from reliable sources, and compare...
thinbluedba The mob mentality and vigilantes definitely occurred with the Vancouver riots as well. Two studies were conducted that actually concluded that sort of behaviour actually is a detriment to investigations....
Nicole Ferraro Re: "I'm not sure if even having a system for the public will help, as we are naturally social animals are like to share and talk and the anonymity of the internet results in a lack of accountability...
richheap Thanks Susan. I knew this had happened in the Boston bombing, but didn't know that other part of the story. I don't want to speculate whether the accusations had an impact but it does show that we...
Susan Leach "My worry is that when the info also spreads quickly around the internet, it brings out every bedroom super-sleuth wannabe who start using 'evidence' to make false accusations against innocent people." This...
richheap I'm sceptical about crowdsourced evidence. I don't mind if relevant photos or videos go to the police, even though it's an awful lot of information for them to trawl through. But it is a problem...
Venks Thanks for the blog, Jason. Its a real eye-opener seeking help fromthe general public incase of mishaps. Its heartening to see that the public is over helpful to the law enforcement authorities in...
Mary Jander Indeed, it seemed to me from close scrutiny of the results that IT pros were interested in green datacenters, but had their hands tied about just how to proceed. As a result, many don't have plans....
thinbluedba Hi Nicole, You definitely raise an important point. Even just by looking at traditional journalism with TV news, there have been cases where the criminals are watching the news as the event...
Nicole Ferraro Yes! I believe that's exactly what happened after the Vancouver riots, actually, if I'm remembering correctly. Facebook pages and sites were launched where people could upload photos of the individuals...
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