Connected communities.

Cisco Systems offers end-to-end networking solutions that help governments communicate in new ways with citizens, health organizations offer better patient care, education establishments offer greater access to people who want to learn and defense organizations achieve their mission objectives. The converged network architectures from Cisco Systems can transform the back-office efficiency of public sector organizations and the productivity of their staff, to improve the quality, reach and cost of citizen services.

Cisco firmly believes that networking is essential to drive up productivity in the public sector and pass on those benefits to citizens and stakeholders. In addition, the Internet helps create a more inclusive society. Cisco is matching its depth of Internet expertise, with the knowledge of its partners to help drive powerful new applications specific to the Public Sector.

Local & Central Government

Governments at all levels are looking for ways to improve how they communicate, interact and respond to the needs of the specific communities they serve. The internet has created the ideal space in which governments can interact with their citizens to:

* Improve the access to delivery of services

* Improve information about services

* Improve the effectiveness of government organizations and departments

* Engage with citizens to foster true collaboration

Governments need to do more than send information one way--ie from themselves to citizens. Perhaps the greatest potential for the Internet in government lies in the possibility of linking together the separate stands of government functions, responsibilities and services into a one-stop destination for all dealings between government and citizens.

Government agencies need to be connected now more than ever to achieve strategic objectives like increase service effectiveness, improve safety, and stimulate economic development. And this can be done by connecting citizens, employees, community-based organizations, governments and suppliers.

Healthcare

Internet-powered applications are dramatically changing the business of healthcare. They are redefining all aspects from the flow of information to the interaction of citizens and healthcare organizations in improving business processes to quality of patient care. Internet applications are simplifying administration, enabling integrated patient centric care, enhancing physician information, services delivery, and continuing professional development, while empowering patients by providing a better choice and greater access to information.

Cisco's Medical Grade Network Solution is helping healthcare organizations all over the world to improve their services and patient care dramatically.

Education

The advent of the internet has created a dramatic shift in how education can be organized and resourced. By using the internet to access and share high quality materials, millions of learners around the world are discovering a whole new experience of education, and one that is fundamentally different from anything that has been possible in the past.

For many potential learners, both children and adults, physical access to schools, universities and other places of learning has been difficult if not impossible. The internet means that education can now come to them.

The internet turns may of the traditional concepts of education on their head. Classroom-based learning is controlled by the pace set by the teacher. With e-Learning tools, the student sets his or her own pace, using materials and following course modules to suit their own unique requirements.

Cisco's Connected Learning and Connected Schools Solutions are transforming education throughout the world.

Cisco network solutions, some of which appear below, provide the foundation on which regional and local governments can base new ways of doing business.

* CISCO IP COMMUNICATIONS. Cisco CallManager improves public safety by simplifying communication in emergencies with features like unified messaging, simple multimedia conferencing, and collaborative contact centers. Governments can maintain service continuity during disruptions with features like Survivable Remote Site Telephony, Data Center Mirroring, High Availability networking, and Extension Mobility.

* CISCO INTEGRATED SECURITY SOLUTIONS. Cisco's Integrated Security solutions incorporate best in class network security (Firewall, VPN, Intrusion Prevention) that is integrated into the Cisco end-to-end network. This security approach maintains the highest levels of security protection throughout the network (wireless or wired). It also improves service delivery by making government information and applications securely available at locations other than the main office (branches, moving vehicles, partners, and suppliers).

HOW CAN CISCO NETWORK SOLUTIONS HELP ME?

Cisco Systems has a range of highly flexible, adaptable network solutions that are changing the way regional and local governments do business. For example, the Ayuntamiento of Tijuana in Mexico, has increased the productivity of its employees by installing IP Communications to offer better service and save costs. The Chilean government connected all its dependencies with an Intranet to share and publish information, delivering better services to the citizens, and el Gobierno from la Pampa in Argentina deployed Cisco optical technology to offer online services to more than 50 % of the citizens.

To learn more about how Cisco is helping the governments in Latin-America and worldwide, please visit http://www.cisco.com/offer/latintrade2

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