Monday 13 February 2012 Government 2.0: The Road Ahead
Columbia govt sets up Cisco TP room

It will allow government officials to meet face to face while avoiding transportation delays

Bogota: Columbia President Alvaro Uribe Vélez and Minister of Defense Gabriel Silva Luján inaugurated the first Cisco TelePresence rooms implemented by the Colombian government, with a virtual meeting between the presidential Casa de Nariño and the Ministry of Defense in Bogotá.
 
The Cisco TelePresence rooms will allow government officials to meet face to face while avoiding transportation delays, and are designed to foster a rapid and more effective decision-making process in Colombian government.
 
The equipment in the Casa de Nariño and the Ministry of Defense is Cisco TelePresence System 3000, a three-screen virtual meeting room that combines real-time video, audio and interactive technologies to give people in distributed locations a wide variety of face-to-face collaboration experiences.
 
Inaugurating the Telepresence rooms Colombian President Álvaro Uribe Vélez said "I would like to have this technology solution in all government departments as it could bring huge benefits in terms of productivity gains, travel reduction and allow us to decrease costs."
 
John Chambers, chairman and CEO, Cisco said "This collaborative approach is an example of the leadership that Colombia is showing to the rest of the world."
 
The Cisco TelePresence solution re-creates an in-person meeting by using three 65-inch plasma screens with 1080p resolution to display life-size images of the participants. Three high-resolution cameras in each room allow everyone to clearly see the facial expressions and gestures across the "virtual table."
 
The Cisco TelePresence system uses high-quality spatial audio, which allows conversations to be conducted in a natural fashion. All meetings will be encrypted with a highly secure system that prevents the capture of audio, data and video by third parties.
—iGovernment Bureau

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