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Thomas Daly <tdaly@poly.edu>
Dr. Harold P. Sjursen <hsjursen@duke.poly.edu>
Kaisa Kautto-Koivula <kaisa.kautto-koivula@kolumbus.fi>
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Dear Tom:
(1) Many thanks for your msg (ATTACHMENT
I).
Dear E-Colleagues:
(2) You may be interested in reading the keynote speech made by President Jerry
Hultin of Polytechnic Institute of New York University recently at the 20th
Annual Information and Communications Technology for Sustainable Economic,
Business and Social Development Conference held at the United Nations July 10 -
11.
BTW, the
Polytechnic University in Brooklyn (my alma mater) was recently merged into the
New York University to become its Polytechnic Institute.
Dear Kaisa:
His speech may
be of some interest to you in reference to your new book to come out.
Dear Marina:
You may also consider to invite some profs. from Poly at your Global
Leadership Forum workshop next spring.
Dear Tom:
(3) Many thanks for this — I am taking the liberty of distributing it to
our list members. His speech is very interesting.
(4) BTW, about a year ago, we discussed at Prof. Harold SjursenÕs office about
your publishing a paper about the history of our GLOSAS projects —
particularly about its Peace Gaming project — which is to be published in
the CABLE, the alumni journal. I think that it may go along with JerryÕs
speech.
How is its progress? Pls talk about it with Harold. Pls also feel
free to contact me about it at any time.
Best, Tak
ATTACHMENT I
From: Thomas Daly <tdaly@poly.edu>
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:59:05
-0400
To: Thomas Daly
<tdaly@poly.edu>
Subject: Polytechnic at the UN
Dear Alumni and
Friends,
Polytechnic's president, Jerry M. Hultin gave a keynote address recently at the
UN. A video of the talk is available on Poly's web page, but here is a
transcript (also on the web in a better format!)
www.poly.edu <http://www.poly.edu>
Tak UtsumiÕs note:
I strongly suggest that you would read the following web before HultinÕs speech
transcript below;
Shaping IT
Professionals for the 21st Century: NYU-Poly takes lead at UN conference,
announces CIO Academy - July 18, 2008
<http://www.poly.edu/news/fullNews.php?id=1311>
If you have broadband Internet, you may view the video of his presentation,
since it is more clear to understand than by reading his transcript.
I'm out of the office for the next two weeks but I can read your comments upon
my return.
Best regards and enjoy your summer,
Tom Daly
Keynote Address: 20th Annual
Information and Communications Technology for Sustainable Economic, Business
and Social Development Conference
Jerry MacArthur Hultin, 10th
President
July 10 -11, 2008
United Nations Headquarters, New York, NY
<http://tinyurl.com/6nrbtq>
I want to welcome everybody. I think as the morning progresses, the level of
particularity and information will continue to increase. I will try to bring a
few ideas to the table that will give you maneuvering room and value as you go
forward.
I want to say if you marvel today at this transformation of computing,
information and communications has created, we still have to look back on
history and say this is not the first time. When they were beating signal drums
in Africa, they were not just doing it for the rhythm. It was information, it
was a warning about colonial slave trading, it was a warning about stealing
them away as slaves. So data has been communicated for a long time across
distances.
And, of course, if you were Lord Nelson, you saw the value of a set of signal
flags that could rally 60, 80 ships to a major naval victory. Again, using data
across distances. Think of Europe in the Victorian era. You could use a
semaphore and get a signal from London to the coast at Portsmith in something
approaching a minute. In fact, it was EinsteinÕs watching railroad signals that
led him to think about time and light and led ultimately to E=mc2 squared and
relativity. And we have the case of Abraham Lincoln, the first president to
fight a war using telegraph that had a major impact on what was going on and
how he commanded his generals.
And then of course in the 20th century, there is at least one author who said
that if diplomats had picked up the phone before World War 1 instead of writing
letters, it would have prevented World War I. The potential for settlement was
so close, but they insisted on using letters and the delay in letters led to
the loss of two million lives.
We have seen information used across the world over distances for a long time.
This is nothing new. Now if you go to China— and I spent two weeks in
China in April— the discussion symbolizes where we are headed in the big
picture. More and more young Chinese talk to me about our hardware and our
software. You can say there is nothing new about that, Jerry. Of course, they
need hardware for computers and software for the operating systems and all that
goes on the applications. Hardware to them means all of the infrastructure and
structural parts of their life. Hardware means the computers, the
communications, the roads, the buildings, thatÕs the hardware. And what they are
saying more and more, itÕs our software that we need to make better. And
by software they mean the values, the culture, the interrelationships, the
reduction of bribery and the ability to trust the transaction. So keep this
metaphor in mind as you think about your role as a CIO. YouÕve been using
different words and I want to propose a different perspective.
Let me tell you the three things IÕd like to cover today. First the role of the
CIO in shaping society; second, the CIOÕs need for what I am going to call a
T-shaped skill set; and third, the role of the Global CIO Forum and Academy,
which AIT and GAID have organized, and which New York Polytechnic is
participating in.
First, letÕs talk about the broader role of the CIO. I like to think of three
letters: IÉ.MÉ.S. I is the traditional role many CIOs saw for ICT. That is
running the inside of the organization. This was someone who ran the telephone
system, ran the computer systemÉessentially communicated within the
organization. Most of you know thatÕs a pretty old-fashioned perspective.
Second, more and more any CEO worth his salt is asking the CIO to deliver on
the business mission. This is the M. This is what you do in the world so that
you succeed at making a profit or succeed at accomplishing the goals of your
organization if you are a government agency.
Third, I would propose the S for society. You would say if you were a business
person or a business CIO, business does not have a role in society. They do
their thing. But I would challenge you that Google has essentially changed
society. Google may make money. Google may communicate internally great. That
is the I and M, but their impact on the S society, their impact on the
software— in the Chinese sense I am using— has been enormous. How
we have access to information, how we handle information, and you can add to
that Cisco, Microsoft, IBM, HP, Yahoo and any number of other companies the sum
of which have changed how society operates. This is why the global economy
exists. The global economy does not exist without the infrastructure of
communications and computing we have. And more and more, if you want to succeed
at your business you want to see how society operates. LetÕs take a simple
example, you want to run a successful business in India. Well, you have to know
how India operates as an economy, as a society. You certainly have that issue
in China. You have that issue in Africa, and I would say more and more you have
that issue in the U.S. If you can tell me what the jobÕs engine in the U.S. is
that is going to give us an economy that basically does not borrow from China
and consume products made across the worldÉ where are the jobs in AmericaÉ step
up. But if you think you are going to run a business in America where no one
has any jobs, I say thatÕs a failed economy and we need to face that potential.
Think about where weÕve seen this already show up. Barack ObamaÕs campaign
organization and fund raising. How he has organized people. Why did he forego
public financing? Because he understood his people could use the Web so
effectively to raise money, and that is value added to whoever understood on
his team how to do that. And that is changing society. Second think about China
and the recent earthquake. Look how ChinaÕs leaders and citizens have engaged
with each other after the May earthquake. The people knew what they were owed
and what was going on. ItÕs not a perfect system, but a changed system. And
third, look at Zimbabwe. If someone had designed a cell phone or Wi-Fi system
that had a truly secure encrypted electronic means of voting that protected
individual citizens, there would be a different result in Zimbabwe today. That
is where ICT changes society, not just the business, not just the operations.
Think IMS and how it changes society. Think of the CIO who is this kind of
person. I would propose that he/she would be a T-shaped person. You canÕt buy a
dress thatÕs a perfect T; you canÕt buy a suit thatÕs a perfect T. Think of T
in this senseÉ.vertical, meaning I have expertise. YouÕve got to be smart to be
an IT professional or CIO. The T-axis is the ability to understand
the business world and the society around you. If you think you can be a good
CIO without knowing the world around you, your boss is going to say take a
hike. You need to be a T-person.
One of the things I do as a university president is try to build T-people. So
what do we do? For instance Polytechnic hosts the Intelligent Communities Forum
World Conference every year because we are trying to take communities and turn
them into thriving economic entities.
Read for instance John SextonÕs, the president of New York University, paper
called ŅFire and Ice.Ó An interesting proposition. Fire, he is saying, is the
pastÉfinance industry, insurance industry, real estate. Talk about New York
City at this point. Such is where the value came from. His proposition is Ice.
Intellectual, cultural, educational is where the new value in this city will
come from and without it New York wonÕt be a global city and I would say the
same thing applies to the city you live in.
Just making the financial industry, insurance industry, manufacturing
successful will be insufficient for the modern person. They are going to be a
T-person and they want a T-life and you are going to want to operate in a T-world.
Now there are clear trends and I think you see them and are going to hear more
about. Security and trust is giving CIOs new opportunities. CEOs have come to
trust us. Green IT and urban sustainability, not only green in terms of IT
operations being energy efficient, but also using IT in helping urban
sustainability. Saving energy, less travel, better transportation, that is
where the real value in green computing will come from.
Security is clearly still an issue. You are going to hear from one of our great
professors Nasir Memon, an expert on security this afternoon. When I was Under
Secretary of the Navy, I watched the attacks on the PentagonÕs information
system and they were enormous. One of the major services proposed putting up an
air gap between the Internet and its own computing system. Put a physical
divide between the two. You canÕt operate like that, but thatÕs what they
wanted to do.
Clearly innovation is important, and one that is dear to my heart virtual
management and virtual distance. Learning to manage across distances without
traveling is going to be one of the skill sets that will make young people
competitive and give companies a competitive advantage, because you are going
to be global and you donÕt want to be the person that flies around the world
every two weeks to manage your team.
Now finally one closing thought. I was a young naval officer in Vietnam and I
have seen war. As Under Secretary of the Navy in the United States, I had
responsibility for over $100B a year and 800,000 men and women in the United
States Navy and Marine Corps and we did some powerful things and not only in
terms of war fighting. You can argue about war fighting, but without protection
and stability in world everything else we dream about is meaningless. We
created the network operations revolution, basically took information
communications and totally changed how organizations operated. Secondly, I
created the Navy, Marine Corps corporate Internet, the consolidation of over
400 WAN into one network, that placed 450,000 people on the same Intranet.
I concluded that as much as you can do on defense, you canÕt make a safe world
on force alone. So that is why I am a university president and thatÕs why the
Millennium Goals exist, because I believe if we do not bring change to the
world, we will not have stability. We will not live like we want to live in the
21st century. So what plays into this? Like I
mentioned earlier, thinking more broadly – IMS. The internal organization
needs to know what is going on, but you got to get well beyond your own
organization if you are going to be effective. When you do that you create value
for your company, agency, CEO and in your own career.
Now, more and more as we pursue the Millennium Goals and if you are in the
business of pursuing the Millennium Goals, I recommend for instance, reading
Paul CollierÕs book ŅThe Bottom Billion.Ó ItÕs a hard-hitting book that says
aid alone and good deeds alone are not sufficient to build a world that
eliminates poverty and gives people hope. Collier spells out what it takes to
changes society and if that is one of the reasons you are here, move past the
clichˇs and into that territory.
AIT and GAID at the UN have formed the Global CIO Academy Forum. This is a
network which you can communicate, get the best practices, learn whatÕs going
on and to continue this discussion. Our role at Polytechnic is to provide an
academy. So this fall we will provide a series of courses related to issues
like I talked about – green, security, innovation, sustainability that I
think you will find helpful in your life and in the lives of people that work
for you.
The forum and academy are a real effort to turn discussions like this into
educating people to be the T-personality I described and IMSÉ..internal,
mission, society view of their obligation.
Finally, Poly merged with NYU for a reason. Poly is a great engineering school,
but we needed a global reach. NYU gives us that. We need to share our
engineering with their sciences, their humanities, and their policy. We needed
their global campuses. They have eight campuses around the world and need our
students to be from around the worldÉfrom Argentina to Shanghai, Italy, France
and Singapore. And finally, we wanted to team up with their 14 great schools.
They are number one in math and computer science, the Stern School is
nationally ranked and the law school is number four. ItÕs a great school and
gives anyone who participates at Poly greater reach. Most of all, we did it
because I like John Sexton who is committed to a better world in which society,
not just the enterprise or agency, clearly increases and improves in the 21st
century.
I donÕt know about you, but there is one friend from California who says there
is enough molecules, enough energy to make this world work. The question is can
we take these molecules and energy and make it work.
The 21st century is a different time. ItÕs not the old game, the old approach
and information is at the heart of this. Between us we will make the kind of
changes the world deserves.
ItÕs been a pleasure being here.
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