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Is Silicon Valley Downloading an Orwellian Program?

In the public interest.

The eye of humanity must turn to Silicon Valley and focus on centralization of power in the form of gathering data to track and profile.

This video is produced inspired by the film The Circle in the public interest.  Are we looking at the emergence of an Orwellian world order under the guise of Smart Cities and interconnectivity designed to control the world rather than free it.

I do not vote for mass data gathering.

Reference George Orwell: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Orwell

 

Wuhan Smart Health Initiative in China

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The Smart Health Initiative in China: The Case of Wuhan, Hubei Province

Journal of Medical Systems volume 40, Article number: 62 (2016) Cite this article

Abstract

To introduce smart health in Wuhan, and provide some references for other cities. As the largest mega-city in central China, Wuhan is investing large amounts of resources to push forward the development of Smart Wuhan and Health Wuhan, and it has unique features. It is one of the centerpieces of China’s New Healthcare Reform, and great hope is put on it to help solve the conflict between limited healthcare resources and the large population of patients. How to plan and design smart health is important. The construction of Wuhan Smart Health includes some aspects as follows, like requirement analysis, the establishment of objectives and blueprint, the architecture design of regional health information platform, evaluation and implementation, problems and solutions, and so on. Wuhan Smart Health has obtained some achievements in health network, information systems, resident’s health records, information standard, and the first phase of municipal health information platform. The focus of this article is the whole construction process of smart health in Wuhan. Although there are some difficulties during this period, some smart health services and management have been reflected. Compared with other cities or countries, Wuhan Smart Health has its own advantages and disadvantages. This study aims to provide a reference for other cities. Because smart health of Wuhan is characteristic in construction mode. Though still in the initial stage, it has great potentials in the future.

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MC and MF conceived the study. MF searched and checked the databases according to keywords and terms, extracted retrieval results and assessed their quality. MC and MF made questionnaire, and completed the survey. JS and BZ provided the important materials. MC and MF wrote the draft of the paper. All authors contributed to writing, reviewing or revising the paper and read and approved the final manuscript. MC is the guarantor of this work and had full access to all the data in the study and takes responsibility for its integrity and the accuracy of the data analysis. The authors would like to thank all the anonymous reviewers for their helpful advice.

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Fan, M., Sun, J., Zhou, B. et al. The Smart Health Initiative in China: The Case of Wuhan, Hubei Province. J Med Syst 40, 62 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10916-015-0416-y

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Carbon Creative, PR and Coronavirus

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The head of Carbon Creative team is Wayne Denning.  I was curious about who he is and what he believes in.  I discovered Wayne is an indigenous person who is involved in promoting technology and STEM to indigenous youth.  STEM is the acronym for Science, Technology, Education and Math’s. This is a specific focus for creating a hi-tech society and is replacing traditional education, in my view, in order to digitize our world.  I note the website is does not have any health Public Relations (PR) campaigns of information dissemination and I question why Public Relations is required rather than a independent person (like Dr. Norman Swan) to discuss the issues without any guidance to deliver a message to bring people on board for social change.  The latter worries me. I am a former market analyst and I believe this is not the correct information channel in such a serious matter as coronavirus. PR is the art of persuasion it is not a factual discipline unless instructed by the client.  For me it is akin the police getting a PR person to soothe the public in respect of an incident rather than the Commissioner of the Police stating the facts and clear guidance.   As a citizen I don’t want to be persuaded. I don’t want spin.  I don’t want ‘feel good’, I want independent facts so that I can make decisions for myself and those around me.

STEM is the training for a technocracy and IT future.  It is rolled out as part of the global strategy of Smart Cities disruption (they call it). Refer   http://www.siliconvalleysystem.com. It is about implementing a technocracy envisage as the framework to a digitised society where everyone is online (trackable, profiled, facial recognition), artificial intelligence (decisions), automation, using cashless cards (embedded chips), a likely future income based on a Universal Basic Income (UBI) as money phases out, sensors to count/monitor, LED’s in lights – heat sensors, cameras in lights, drones, smart technologies that collect data in a Internet of Things.  According to a naval expert Mark Steele he states SMART is a military’s term meaning SMART = Secret Militarized Armaments in Residential Technology. His perspective is as follows:

For some it is a Brave New World for others it is an efficient technocratic future that connects everyone and provides jobs.  This new reality has been designed by the military in collaboration with Silicon Valley in the United States which is the home of 1,000’s of big tech companies who benefit from global implementation of STEM/SMART and IoT for example: Alphabet (Google), Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, HP, 23andMe, IBM, Apple, Intel.  They are making trillions of dollars which is why this industry is shape changing our world.  I tried to copy and paste the main companies and the military links but a strange thing happened.

My question is – does this make the world a better place or do we live in a virtual world disconnected yet connected?

Wayne Denning is involved with Australian indigenous Mentoring Experience involving STEM training  https://www.school-news.com.au/external-learning/state-libraries-partner-with-govt-to-advance-indigenous-stem-skills/

  • apologies I cannot create the link and having problems with this computer.  Can’t copy anything for some reason.

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The public may not be aware that there are different types of classifications in respect of government owned, statutory and contracting organisations.  I will add a link here for you to learn about it.  Refer https://www.directory.gov.au/sites/default/files/types_of_bodies_2018-07-20_0.pdf

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14 years ago, proud Birri Gubba man Wayne Denning saw an opportunity to make a real difference to the lives of his fellow Indigenous Australians. After more than a decade of working on landmark government policies in Native Title and Land Rights, Wayne’s vision put storytelling and creativity front and centre with the goal of changing hearts and minds on a grand scale. Carbon Creative was born.

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Wuhan is a Smart City 2020

In the public interest.

Smart City is a key focus.

This excerpt is from the Chinese approved paper:

https://www.smart-eco-cities.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Wuhan-accepted-manuscript-March-2018.pdf

Wuhan is central China’s most populous city, with approximately 10 million residents in 2017.  Historically known as the ‘Center of the whole Empire’ (Rowe 1984, cited in Han and Wu 2004: 349), the city is promoted by the Wuhan Bureau of Commerce (2010: 2) as the logistical ‘heart of China’, and the ‘largest transportation hub for land, water and air travel. Its strategic location links the East with the West, and the South with the North’. The national State Council has formally recognized Wuhan as the most important shipping centre in the middle sections of the Yangtze river (van de Bovenkamp and Fei 2016: 2)…Our discussion of Wuhan’s smart city activities begins by interpreting them through the lens of national policy, as a particular ‘translation’ of a global policy discourse. The case for considering the influential effects of national policy on urban development may seem self-evident – and yet its role is often underemphasised or overlooked in discussions of city-specific initiatives (Joss and Cowley 2017) that are not ‘top-down’ flagship projects, such as Masdar City in the United Arab Emirates (Cugurullo 2016). As discussed below, Chinese smart city development is not solely determined by the national government, but is nevertheless more clearly driven from the centre than is typically the case in, for example, European cities.   

Below is an article from the China Daily about Wuhan as a Smart city.

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2012-11/16/content_15935840.htm

Wuhan to become smart city by 2020

Updated: 2012-11-16 11:11

By Hu Yang ( chinadaily.com.cn)

 
 
 
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BARCELONA, Spain – Wuhan, capital of Central China’s Hubei province, aims to become a leading city in terms of applying technology to improve the lives of its citizens, the vice-mayor of the city said.

Shao Weimin, the vice-mayor of Wuhan, made the remarks during a speech to the 2012 Smart City Expo World Congress held from Nov 13 to 15 in Barcelona, Spain.

The city is among the first batch of cities in China to pilot the smart city program, it is also the first city in the world to hold an open tender to global companies for intelligent city designs.

The concept of “smart city” was initially raised by IBM, before that various names, such as digital city and intelligent city, have been used to describe using information technology to run a city more efficiently.

According to IBM, a smart city is an instrumented, interconnected, and intelligent city. While Forrester, a research and advisory firm, defines smart city as “the use of smart computing technologies to make the critical infrastructure components and services of a city—which include city administration, education, healthcare, public safety, real estate, transportation, and utilities—more intelligent, interconnected, and efficient.”

Wuhan plans to finish the information technology infrastructure construction by the year 2015 and by the year 2020 a smart Wuhan will be in place, according to Shao.

The city has already launched several programs to improve citizens’ lives and offer more convenience. A municipal administrative service center which provides 24-hour self-service public service has been set up. Wuhan also launched a two-dimensional code food tracing system to ensure food safety and water resource monitoring system to protect the environment, Shao told the congress.