More than half of the people on Earth live in cities, and urban populations are projected to double by mid-century. IBM is helping cities around the world tackle serious urban issues and improve the quality of life of their citizens.
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IBM CEO Sam Palmisano and SVP Ginni Rometty Receive Key to the City of Rio de Janeiro
Date added: 09 Nov 2011
IBM Chairman, President and CEO Samuel J. Palmisano (left), and IBM Senior Vice President and incoming President and CEO Ginni Rometty (right), receive a key to the city of Rio de Janeiro from mayor Eduardo Paes. IBM became the first corporation to receive the honor following the successful launch of the Rio Operations Center. IBM is hosting its Smarter Cities Forum in Rio today to help government and business leaders learn how to tackle the challenge of mass urbanization
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Rio Operations Center
Date added: 04 Oct 2011
IBM worked with Rio to design a command center that integrates over 20 city departments to improve emergency response management and collaboration across the city. Predictive analytics capabilities use information to decide how to best react to current events and how to best plan for what is likely to happen in the future in order to minimize impact on citizens.
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IBM Rio Operations Center 1
Date added: 28 Dec 2010
The new Operations Center in Rio provides the incident commander and responders with a single, unified view of all the information that they require for situational awareness.
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IBM Rio Operations Center 2
Date added: 28 Dec 2010
At the new Rio Operations Center, the incident commander's view provides a summary of everything happening around the city on a video wall, including surveillance cameras, maps, simulations, news updates, resources and information about incidents.
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Rio Operations Center 3
Date added: 28 Dec 2010
The Rio Operations Center, which will be located in Cidade Nova, will integrate and interconnect information from multiple government departments and public agencies in the municipality to improve city safety and responsiveness to various types of incidents, such as flash floods and landslides.
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IBM Media Relations
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