IBM's Smarter Cities Challenge

Given what IBM's consulting services usually do 'for' organizations (this is, suck out money by the boatload and spin in circles of disastrous IT process plans and never-ending increases in staffing and meetings and documentation... with nothing actually ever getting done) I'd hope that Buffalo would stay far, far away from them.

I'd be hard pressed to believe IBM would choose Buffalo for the smarter cities challenge. Three examples why.....Look at the number of people that voted for a ignorant buffoon like Carl Paladino, and secondly to this website alone, look at the number of people who use the f-word as a verb or adjective or the many other profanities they use as verbs and adjectives, and thirdly, YAHOO and NYPA those two words alone say alot. GEESH

i think it is worth applying. you get a free team of outside experts for up to three weeks. toss them our vacant housing problem and see what they come up with.

Let's have them take a look at the computer systems that Karla Thomas was complaining about. Let them focus on getting more meaningful reports and statistics from Citistat. They could develop a strategy for making Buffalo one of the most technologically connected cities in America. They could focus on bringing the City Police Department online with the computer systems used by the County Sheriffs and State Police, so they could communicate more efficiently.

I am dreaming here, but maybe they could get the traffic light system to finally work so they are timed correctly.

i don't mean to change the subject but while were on the topic of Buffalo interacting with the information technology business, what happened with Buffalo's application to be a test market for google earlier this year?

IBM has traditionally had deep links to Buffalo, their branch manager here for years held some of the basic patents derived from the early days of Standard Tabulator. Some of their biggest iron resided in the sub basements of Marine Midland, and later HSBC Nobody ever got fired for specifying IBM on a bid. So bring them on. Let the chips fall where they may and we might find out who exactly is holding up the parade. The great and original monopoly has some of the brightest talent on the planet and they are quite capable of holding their own with the na-sayers.
After all they turned around a dying company with a moribund culture. Lets turn them loose on the county government where they might find a couple corporate suits of kindred spirit.