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01. Mayor A C Wharton, Jr., City of Memphis, visits #theCUBE!. (00:20)
02. What's Happening in Memphis?. (00:43)
03. Emerging Tech Culture in Memphis. (01:37)
04. Technology for Advancement: Twitter Data Put to Use. (02:16)
05. Jen Crozier, IBM, visits #theCUBE!. (02:55)
06. Governing Process in Memphis. (03:28)
07. Real-Time and Near Real-Time. (05:09)
08. Challenges for Local Technology Team- 911. (05:32)
09. How Data is Being Used to Sort Information. (06:47)
10. Vision for the Government's Future with Technology. (08:22)
11. What's Next for the Program at IBM?. (10:59)
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IBM awards Memphis Smart Cities Challenge Grant | #IBMEdge
by Heather Johnson | May 15, 2015
Memphis, Tennessee, Mayor A C Wharton, Jr. presented a life-saving challenge to IBM. His proposal, to streamline the city’s EMS service, earned the city an IBM Smart Cities Challenge Grant. As a grant recipient, Memphis will receive assistance from a team of IBM professionals to develop a solution to the challenge.
Memphis wanted to weed out the nonemergency calls from the true emergency calls in its EMS service. “Of the 120,000 calls a year we receive, about 25,000 are not emergencies,” Wharton told theCUBE during IBM Edge2015. “That takes valuable time and resources away from the true emergency calls.”
Memphis keeps technologically up to date
Memphis will also receive a Twitter Data Grant, which will allow it to use Twitter data to make decisions. Certainly, Memphis, a city steeped in musical history, is technologically up to date.
Wharton plans to call upon IBM’s expertise to help it leverage
Twitter data as part of the EMS project.
“We know Memphis, but IBM knows the world,” Wharton said. He believes that the IBM Smart Challenge team will help the city determine how to use the data to provide day-to-day solutions.
“For our EMS project, we’re looking at using nurses as dispatchers or possibly sending nurses to the homes of individuals that we call ‘frequent fliers,’ who often call when it’s not truly an emergency,” Wharton explained. “You have to have the ability to analyze data in real time and apply the right solution. This is why IBM’s expertise on a worldwide basis is so critical.”
The Smarter Planet initiative creates ripple effects
Jen Crozier, VP of IBM’s Global Citizenship Initiatives, also joined theCUBE to discuss the grant process. Crozier explained that over 600 mayors have applied for grants over the life of the program, and IBM has delivered 115 teams.
“When we started building the Smarter Planet initiative, one of the things we considered was where our efforts would have the biggest ripple effect,” she said. “That’s cities. More than half the world’s population lives in cities, and that number is growing every day. We’ve been really gratified by this program.”
@theCUBE
#IBMEdge
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Mayor A C Wharton, Jr. & Jen Crozier - IBM Edge 2015 - theCUBE
Enhanced video at http://vinja.tv/QgT6PFYR
01. Mayor A C Wharton, Jr., City of Memphis, visits #theCUBE!. (00:20)
02. What's Happening in Memphis?. (00:43)
03. Emerging Tech Culture in Memphis. (01:37)
04. Technology for Advancement: Twitter Data Put to Use. (02:16)
05. Jen Crozier, IBM, visits #theCUBE!. (02:55)
06. Governing Process in Memphis. (03:28)
07. Real-Time and Near Real-Time. (05:09)
08. Challenges for Local Technology Team- 911. (05:32)
09. How Data is Being Used to Sort Information. (06:47)
10. Vision for the Government's Future with Technology. (08:22)
11. What's Next for the Program at IBM?. (10:59)
Track List created with http://www.vinjavideo.com.
--- ---
IBM awards Memphis Smart Cities Challenge Grant | #IBMEdge
by Heather Johnson | May 15, 2015
Memphis, Tennessee, Mayor A C Wharton, Jr. presented a life-saving challenge to IBM. His proposal, to streamline the city’s EMS service, earned the city an IBM Smart Cities Challenge Grant. As a grant recipient, Memphis will receive assistance from a team of IBM professionals to develop a solution to the challenge.
Memphis wanted to weed out the nonemergency calls from the true emergency calls in its EMS service. “Of the 120,000 calls a year we receive, about 25,000 are not emergencies,” Wharton told theCUBE during IBM Edge2015. “That takes valuable time and resources away from the true emergency calls.”
Memphis keeps technologically up to date
Memphis will also receive a Twitter Data Grant, which will allow it to use Twitter data to make decisions. Certainly, Memphis, a city steeped in musical history, is technologically up to date.
Wharton plans to call upon IBM’s expertise to help it leverage
Twitter data as part of the EMS project.
“We know Memphis, but IBM knows the world,” Wharton said. He believes that the IBM Smart Challenge team will help the city determine how to use the data to provide day-to-day solutions.
“For our EMS project, we’re looking at using nurses as dispatchers or possibly sending nurses to the homes of individuals that we call ‘frequent fliers,’ who often call when it’s not truly an emergency,” Wharton explained. “You have to have the ability to analyze data in real time and apply the right solution. This is why IBM’s expertise on a worldwide basis is so critical.”
The Smarter Planet initiative creates ripple effects
Jen Crozier, VP of IBM’s Global Citizenship Initiatives, also joined theCUBE to discuss the grant process. Crozier explained that over 600 mayors have applied for grants over the life of the program, and IBM has delivered 115 teams.
“When we started building the Smarter Planet initiative, one of the things we considered was where our efforts would have the biggest ripple effect,” she said. “That’s cities. More than half the world’s population lives in cities, and that number is growing every day. We’ve been really gratified by this program.”
@theCUBE
#IBMEdge
