BT, Sustainable Development Goals & Public Private Partnerships
Chris Bruce, Director, Advise, Global Services, Co-Chair Wireless Broadband Alliance 27th October 2016
Mapping BT’s 2020 Sustainability Goals with the UN SDGs. Priorities remain unchanged and the SDGs will help shape our 2030 agenda
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IN CONFIDENCE
Where BT’s Global Goals and SDGs map 3:1
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Carbon Clear – Sustainable reporting performance of the FTSE 100 BT ranked #1 for third consecutive year BT met its science based target to reduce emissions by 84% of 1996/7 baseline by 2020
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Future Cities Collaboration with National & local Government, Academia and SME’s and Communities To demonstrate the benefits of the Internet of Things
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Trailblazing IoT technologies and a collective desire for ongoing collaboration in Four domains: •
Health & Social Care.
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Environment & Energy
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Travel & Transport
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Public Realm
BT and Cisco as major industry partners are leading with 4 x Public Organisations, 2 x Universities and 12 SMEs.
2 km2 £16m 20 Innovation corridor
IoT investment
delivery partners
1st July 2016 Start date
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Health & Social Care
Use Case Development Chronic Condition Management 5th
• Focusing on COPD – the UK’s biggest killer Testing the ability of IoT interventions to improve self-care, medication adherence and physical activity • Providing individuaised patient feedback for better care and early warnings detection
Community Wellness
Nursing Home Care
• Focused on tackling costly chronic conditions before they require public health intervention • Sensor networks will support citizens in and outside the home and digitally promote physical activity to tackle heart disease, productivity, mental health and general wellbeing
• Intelligent use of IoT to provide remote monitoring of patients, linked to records, clinical workflow and remote collaboration • Improve health outcomes and reduce demands on the healthcare system
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ICT – a critical role in tackling Climate Change, Poverty, Inequality and Health, Globally • Technology & connectivity enables a holistic response • Social, environmental ad economic challenges intertwine • Global Offline population of 4 billion people • 20% internet access in Africa • BT: • Sub-Saharan Africa - partners with SOS Children’s Villages – broadband via satellite to orphaned children • India - 10 year relationship with Katha, India, providing IT courses for 19k children, • South Africa - provides Free-Wifi in Coca Cola Vending machines in South Africa, • West Africa - Satellite capacity available to assist co-ordinating Ebola response.
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Build awareness, advocacy & global availability of Connectivity, guided by the leadership of Connected Cities
MISSION
Develop Connected City Plans & Blueprints
Recognize Best Practices
Promote City CIO Networking
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Facilitate Knowledge Sharing 7
MEMBERS
City CIOs, senior city and government officials, industry experts and WBA Board of Directors
Cities/Governments Barcelona, Calgary, Delhi, Dublin, Liverpool, Mexico, New York, Palo Alto, Philippines, San Francisco, San Jose, Singapore, state of Illinois, Cyberview Malaysia, Downtown Manhattan Alliance, State of Telangana and Karnataka, India, City of Limerick, City of Oporto Copyright © 2016 | Wireless Broadband Alliance Ltd. All rights reserved
Private Sector AT&T, Boingo, BT, China Telecom, Cisco, Comcast, Intel, Korea Telecom, Liberty Global, NTT DoCoMo, Orange, Ruckus
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1. Participants
87 Supporters for the World Wi-Fi Day Copyright © 2016 | Wireless Broadband Alliance Ltd. All rights reserved
2. Activities performed World Wi-Fi Day Awards and Case Studies • • • • •
Over 40 submissions for the Awards More than 50 case studies shared Large organizations participating, Google, Cisco, NYC, IDA, … Very relevant projects and comprehensive submissions Well received by the Media and Participants
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Conclusions • Aligning ambitions & Evolving goals - focus on areas of natural corporate interest and competitive advantage
• ICT and Digital societies can make a contribution across all SDGs • Cross sector & public / private collaboration is key – improving understanding and creating a common language • Embedding into the organisation - incentives • Tracking, verification and communication
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