2009-09-21
IBM Launches Sustainability Model for Small Cities. By Michael Burnham, Greenwire, September 17, 2009. IBM launched its 'Smarter City Initiative' in Dubuque, Iowa on Thursday. "The company's goal is to develop a replicable model that integrates social, economic and environmental sustainability principles -- and IBM technologies -- for cities with 200,000 or fewer people. The world may be urbanizing at a fast clip, but 40% of the U.S. population still resides in small cities... IBM's goal is to develop a technology platform that provides Dubuque an integrated view of energy management, including energy consumed by the electric grid, water system and general city services. IBM will capture and analyze the data and use existing communications infrastructure, including the Internet, to share the information, explained Mahmoud Naghshineh, director of IBM's services delivery research. 'We see Dubuque as the place to start and then bring these capabilities to thousands of cities in the United States and around the world,' he added."
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