Best-Run Cities: Urban Matters

Technology Revolution: The Future of Now

Bonnie D Graham

News, Business News, Technology

4.9 • 112 Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2013

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Today’s buzz: The city. More than just your snail-mail address, the city is a vital entity with the power to impact local quality of life as well as national and global economies. How’s your city running? The experts speak. Dr. Theresa Pardo: “Running a city is a complex and challenging task. Running it well, even more so. The best run cities ... embrace the complexity of the task, see the opportunities that information and technology offer in managing that complexity, and seek out innovative yet practical solutions to the problems their citizens care about.” Chris Moore: “Government technology is not for the faint of heart. Adie Tomer: “If knowledge is the key then just show me the lock.” - Q-Tip, A Tribe Called Quest, Check the Rhime Sean Patrick O’Brien: “The 19th century was a century of empires. The 20th century was a century of nation states. The 21st century will be a century of cities.” - Wellington E. Webb, Former Denver Mayor Join us for Best-Run Cities: Urban Matters.

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0:45.4	Thank you. Welcome to the most nutritious hour of business talk all week.
0:49.3	This is Coffee Break with Game Changers, presented by SAP.
0:51.8	The best run business is run SAP.
0:54.5	Your host and moderator is Bonnie D. Graham.
1:02.1	You'll hear from the innovators who have learned to use game-changing technologies to shake up the status quo and help move today's businesses in new directions.
1:04.1	Now, here's Bonnie D. Graham.
1:07.3	Today's Buzz, the City.
1:10.2	Hey, it's more than just your snail mail address.
1:29.0	The city is a vital entity with the power to impact local quality of life. That means how you live, what goes on with you and your family and everything, as well as national and even global economies. I have a couple of quotes about the city I think you will enjoy. Here we go, one from ancient Rome. The city, the city, my dear Brutus,
1:35.4	stick to that and live in its full light. Residents elsewhere, as I made up my mind in early life, is mere eclipse and obscurity to those whose energy is capable of shining in Rome. Recognize that.
1:42.5	It's Marcus Tilius Cicero. Excuse me. And I have a couple of statistics
1:46.3	here on U.S. cities. Colonial America, for those of you who know American history, was largely rural.
1:51.7	In 1750, there were only five cities with populations more than 12,000. Guess which ones?
1:58.3	I'll tell you, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Newport, Rhode Island,
2:01.9	huh? And Charleston, South Carolina, the five biggest cities in 1750. By the year 1830,
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