BT, Sustainable Development Goals

& Public Private Partnerships

Chris Bruce,

Director, Advise, Global Services,

Co-Chair Wireless Broadband Alliance

27th October 2016

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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

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Where BT’s Global Goals and SDGs map

3:1

10m

£1bn

66%

5m

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Carbon Clear – Sustainable reporting performance of the FTSE 100BT 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.

• Environment & Energy

• Travel & Transport

• Public Realm

BT and Cisco as major industry partners are leading with 4 x Public

Organisations, 2 x Universities and 12 SMEs.

Innovation corridor

2km2IoT investment

£16mdelivery partners

20 1st July 2016 Start date

Chronic Condition Management

• Focusing on COPD – the UK’s 5th 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

• 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

Nursing Home Care

• 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

Use Case Development

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Health & Social Care

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• 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.

ICT – a critical role in tackling Climate Change, Poverty, Inequality and Health, Globally

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Build awareness, advocacy & global

availability of Connectivity, guided by the

leadership of Connected Cities

Develop Connected City

Plans & Blueprints

Promote City CIO Networking

Facilitate Knowledge

Sharing

Foster Public-Private

Partnerships

Recognize Best Practices

GOALS

MISSION

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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

Private Sector

AT&T, Boingo, BT, China

Telecom, Cisco, Comcast,

Intel, Korea Telecom, Liberty

Global, NTT DoCoMo,

Orange, Ruckus

City CIOs, senior city and government

officials, industry experts and WBA Board of

DirectorsMEMBERS

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1. Participants

87 Supporters for

the World Wi-Fi Day

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2. Activities performed

• 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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• 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

Conclusions