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A Network to Enable People Around the World to Contribute To Artwork
Cisco Systems Inc. has announced it is collaborating with Australia’s leading artist, Moshe Rosenzveig, to create Australia-New Zealand’s first online collaborative artwork. The project, to be based in Australasia, will showcase a range of Cisco collaboration technologies to help businesses increase their productivity.
This October, Sydney’s award-winning
photojournalist Moshe Rosenzveig will work with a number of
contributors for a minimum of three hours each weekday, encouraging
participants with broadband access to visit www.imagine-if.info and
upload photographs related to a chosen theme that will become
Rosenzveig's material for daily artwork. At month’s end, the individual
works will form a single piece of artwork which Cisco plans to auction.
 Online Collaborative Artwork
Rosenzveig is excited about being involved in this unique project with
a huge potential, believing that collaborating with people from all
over the world for this art project is a very powerful thing. The
creation of this online activity, he says, will reflect the diversity
of people with varying tastes and backgrounds. The technology such as
Cisco’s, which enables this collaboration in art to happen in real
time, is extraordinary because it eliminates the barrier of distance
that would usually make this an impossible task, he adds.
Cisco has announced the details of its collaboration portfolio which is
designed to integrate with business applications, existing network
infrastructures and Web services, allowing developers to create
customized applications and network-based services.
The new portfolio products include:
Cisco® Unified Communications System Release 7.0 which offers a
unifying mode of communications and significant improvements in total
cost of ownership, ease of use, and interoperability with business
applications.
The immersive Cisco TelePresence video experience forming a contact
centre for high-value in-branch customer service which directly summons
expertise during a Cisco TelePresence meeting.
The Web 2.0 applications platform, the Cisco WebEx® Connect, a new
software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform, which integrates presence,
instant messaging, Web meetings and team spaces with traditional and
Web 2.0 business applications.
Rosenzveig will use a mix of these technologies to help people to connect to and contribute to the project.
Peter Hughes, Cisco manager for Unified Communications in Australia and
New Zealand, says that the power of collaboration is real whether in
art or in the community, in business, health or education. He adds that
collaboration technologies now have the capability through real-time
video and unified communications to transform business processes to
help businesses make better decisions that productively involves the
right people. Business companies may embrace collaboration and adapt to
the technological changes in the way they do business. He hopes that
his one-of-a-kind collaboration online project will pave the way for
people to work together employing technologies that can power
innovation.
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