Government Collaboration Testimonials

Cisco's CDA is a partnership

For the past six years, Cisco’s CDA has built strategic partnerships with governments across 44 countries spanning six continents. Learn more about what they have to say about CDA.

Americas

"I think that these kinds of solutions are here to stay. Our relationship with Cisco has been more and more collaborative in terms of public solutions for City problems."

- José Merino, Mexico City CIO and Head of Public Innovation Digital Agency

"Thank you, Cisco Engineers, for all this support you have given us and the knowledge you have gifted: you allowed the distances to be shortened. Both doctors and patients of this institute are very grateful."

- Dr. Sergio Monraz, Chief Medical Officer of National Respiratory Disease Institute

"It’s a very powerful solution designed for bringing full visibility into industrial control systems,” she said, “especially for that space where IT and OT converge. And on the operations side, they often don’t have a whole lot of visibility into what’s connecting and what’s not connecting or whether people have permission or access."

- Kristen Sanders, Chief Information Security Officer at the Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority

"Cisco’s growing commitment to Canada demonstrates how our approach is working. By equipping Canadians with the tools needed to succeed in the jobs of today and tomorrow, we are working together to position Canada at the forefront of the global economy."

- Hon. Navdeep Bains, Former Minister of Innovation, Science, and Industry, Canada

"This partnership between MCTI and Cisco is an example of this transformative union. Science and technology are fundamental elements of the economic and social development of Brazil."

- Marcos Pontes, Brazilian Minister of Science, Technology, and Innovation

APJC

"I would like to express my sincere respect for Cisco's program to support digitalization around the world. In Japan, Cisco has been promoting a number of projects to support digitalization in areas such as IT talent development, network security, industry, government, education, and healthcare. This direction is exactly what we are aiming for."

- Takuya Hirai, Japan’s Minister of State for Digital Transformation, the Minister of State for the Social Security and Tax Number System and Minister in charge of Information Technology Policy

"Cisco has helped the digital transformation in education by offering free video conferencing solutions to education institutions during these difficult times. I would like to express my sincere appreciation to Cisco for its support and commitment to making the future bright through social investment in various areas such as IT talent cultivation. I expect IT companies like Cisco to closely work with public institutions and universities, creating synergy in fostering people-centered digital infrastructure. The government will spare no effort to provide support for it."

- Sye-Kyun Chung, South Korea’s Former Prime Minister

"This technology is a necessity to safeguard the health of our doctors and it should be implemented in all hospitals."

- Karnataka Health Minister, B Sriramulu, on the launch of Cisco's ICU telecard to address physician concerns about treating coronavirus patients

"The collaboration between West Java Province Government, Telkom University and Cisco will help to support the information and communications technology infrastructure in the province, especially in managing COVID-19 response efforts. Having a well-developed ICT platform is critical to ensuring efficiency, information dissemination, accessibility and transparency within public services hosted by West Java Province Government."

- Mochamad Ridwan Kamil, Governor of West Java Province

EMEAR

"The strategic partnership with Cisco strengthens the innovation activities of the Intesa Sanpaolo Group and provides us with additional tools to support Italian companies in several areas that are extremely important for their competitiveness such as the transition to a new circular economic model, dialogue with startups, digital data protection and protection from cyber-attacks, as well as, the introduction of neuroscience to manage and enhance the efforts of the most valuable resource, human capital."

- Guido de Vecchi, General Manager Intesa Sanpaolo Innovation Center

"On 20 October 2020, we will open our doors to welcome the world. We want to amaze millions of visitors with an incredible experience made possible by cutting-edge technology enabled by our partners, in particular the digital infrastructure being installed by our Digital Network Partner, Cisco. We’re delighted with the speed of progress as preparations continue ahead of the readiness and testing phase at the end of this year."

- Mohammed Alhashmi, Chief Technology Officer at Expo 2020 Dubai

"The health and wellbeing of the UAE community is our number one priority and as such we have been working with Cisco to create a service that will support the vision of the UAE in healthcare, and change patients' lives for the better. Reimagine healthcare with digital communications.

Our partnership with Cisco and involvement with the CDA initiative exemplified the true meaning of collaboration, social responsibility, and the willingness of two organizations to come together and cater to the community in the most uncertain times."

- Andre Daoud, Group CEO of Medcare Hospitals & Medical Centres

"The decision by Cisco to make such a significant commitment to digital innovation across the UK is welcome news and is a vote of confidence in our Modern Industrial Strategy. I particularly welcome the announcement of the new AI research centre in partnership with UCL. Research has shown that AI could add £232 billion to the UK economy by 2030 and developments like this will help with our ambition to put the UK at the forefront of the AI and data revolution."

- Theresa May, Former UK Prime Minister

"Membership of as many high-quality security suppliers as possible that are active on the Dutch market is very important to achieve our goal. Cisco plays an important role in the Netherlands in the field of security, both in the field of technology and threat intelligence , as well as in the field of training. Cisco's vision on security is also in line with our vision: security is a common interest. We are therefore pleased that Cisco has joined Cybersafe Netherlands."

- Petra Oldengarm, Director of Cybersafe Netherlands