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Cisco Technology Allows for Virtual Visits with Medical Specialists
Amanda Spencer’s young son, Jonathan, needs specialty medical care that isn’t available in the family’s hometown of Monterey, California. But through Cisco HealthPresence technology, Amanda and Jonathan can meet with a pediatric urologist at Stanford University, 80 miles away, without even leaving M…
Tune In, Turn On And Meet Your Doctor
This blog was originally posted on the Huffington Post We are now witnessing children’s health care expanding across the nation with advancements in video-based networking and collaborative technologies. A virtual visit by a renowned pediatric specialist at your local clinic is now becoming a…
Supplier Diversity Programs Bring Out the Entrepreneur Within
This piece was authored by guest blogger Jasmin Herro, founder and CEO of Outback Global Australia and vice president of Outback Global USA. Outback Global is an Indigenous-owned business certified with Supply Nation, along with Cisco Australia, which is also a member. Supply Nation is an organizati…
How Grameen Foundation Connects the Unconnected
The following blog was originally posted on the Grameen Foundation Insights Blog Today, Cisco asked us all to share our vision of how the Internet of Everything can improve our world, by “connecting the unconnected.” Like Cisco, we believe that human networks and technology can play a si…
3 Ways The Internet of Everything Is Improving Our World
This blog was originally posted on Huffington Post. Every day, we’re bombarded with seemingly unsolvable issues — health care crises, struggling schools, poverty, and climate change are just a few. These issues may at first seem too big for any of us to solve. But in today’s techno…
Tackling Children’s Health Problems with Technology and Collaboration
Children’s health care is a growing concern on a domestic and global scale among parents, specialists, and policymakers. Treating this special population, particularly among those living in rural communities, ignites continual challenges including insurance concerns, limited transportation, and the…
How can the Internet of Everything Improve Our World?
Join this week long public conversation on Twitter and Huffington Post Impact starting Oct. 7 The growth and convergence of people process, data, and things on the Internet – the Internet of Everything — is making networked connections more valuable and relevant than ever before, creating unp…
Cisco Partners Recognized for Promoting Achievement in K-12 Education
This week, 2 of Cisco’s current or former education nonprofit partners were recognized by Business Roundtable for their work to prepare U.S. K-12 students for college and the workplace. MIND Research Institute. MIND’s Spatial Temporal (ST) Math program is a language-free, web-based software p…
Cisco STEM Mentoring Events Aim to Inspire Students
By 2018, it is estimated there will be 1.2 million U.S. job openings in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields. While that sounds like good news, there is an acute shortage of qualified applicants to fill these jobs. The students in our schools today simply don’t have the skills and…