Transport for London (TfL) first introduced contactless payments on London buses in 2012 and two years later extended them to cover all modes of travel on the world’s largest contactless pay-as-you-go network – covering bus, rail, Tube and tram. This video from Council Lead Partner Cubic Transportation Systems highlights the tremendous results TfL has seen since introducing contactless payments.
When Kanaiwa Hospital in Kanazawa, Japan, decided to introduce a comprehensive electronic health records system, it needed a smooth transition from its old paper record-keeping as well as a "non-stop" network to support the new system.
Cloud software services are bringing about rapid and diverse changes to how a water utility operates and how data is used. As new systems often require new technology resources to operate and support, the white paper linked below from Council Associate Partner Badger Meter explains why utilities are finding cloud computing to be a viable alternative to investing in additional hardware.
Listen to this brief video to hear John Ravitz from the American Red Cross talk about how Council Lead Partner MasterCard-branded prepaid client assistance cards helped people who were driven from their homes by a major fire.
In this video from Council Lead Partner MasterCard, Shashi Verma, Director of Customer Experience at Transport for London, discusses the contactless payment system rolled out in September 2014 across the Tube, tram, DLR, London Overground and National Rail services that accept Oyster.
At the May 2013 World Economic Forum on Africa, the Nigerian National Identity Management Commission and Council Lead Partner MasterCard announced the planned issuance of 13 million National Identity Smart Cards as a pilot program.
San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department relies on modern technology to help protect and serve the citizens of the largest county in the United States. It began to investigate cloud-based IT solutions to replace its on-premises hardware and software and settled on Microsoft Office 365 ProPlus for its 3,400 employees. Watch this video from Council Lead Partner Microsoft to learn why.
New Taipei city government began constructing and integrating the public cloud and service cloud, not only to strengthen city government operations and that of its subordinate agencies, but also to determine public sentiment regarding government services in order to facilitate a more rapid and effective public service for citizens.
As part of Council Lead Partner Microsoft's CityNext initiative, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, is making its highly mobile workforce more effective with cloud-based software and Microsoft Surface Pro tablets, so employees can spend more time onsite doing their jobs and less time driving to the office.
School leaders, teachers, and students in the nation's fourth-largest district share their enthusiasm for the digital convergence project that will deploy over 100,000 Windows 8.1 tablet devices for 7th-grade civics and 9th-grade world history classes, and laptops at the elementary level. Some 350,000 students will receive Microsoft Office Professional Plus for free from Council Lead Partner Microsoft as part of the Microsoft Student Advantage program.