IBM Announces Global Movement Management Initiative19 November 2005
IBM today announced the launch of a new
strategic initiative designed to help move key resources -- people, goods,
money, information and conveyances (or the means of transportation) around
the globe with greater security and resilience.
Called Global Movement Management, the initiative addresses the technical
and political challenges that historically have hampered efforts to
improve security in the global system. IBM detailed these in a paper
released today titled Global Movement Management: Securing the Global
Economy.
In making the announcement, IBM said it will align many of its core
business activities and business-unit expertise to develop a platform for
new security-related projects across the corporation. These include IBM
capabilities in customs, ports and border management; data analytics and
risk management; secure communications and information sharing
technologies; and identification and credentialing security systems.
Today's global economy remains vulnerable to disruptive events such as
terrorist attacks, natural disasters and disease outbreaks. If these
ripple through the system, they cause significant harm to persons and
economies. Leaders in both the public and private sectors have recognized
such threats and directed increased resources toward combating them, but to
date most of these actions have lacked coherence and integration.
IBM's Global Movement Management initiative focuses on overcoming the key
challenges in the current system, including issues that hamper
international cooperation and cooperation between the public and private
sectors, and the impacts of security on commerce and privacy.
The GMM white paper puts forth a vision for a distributed governance system
worldwide and an open-source system architecture, both of which can serve
as practical tools to assess and overcome existing challenges.
"The Global Movement Management initiative will be extremely useful for
leaders in both the public and private sectors, who are still wrestling
with what it means to build security into their everyday operations and how
to pay for it," said Admiral James Loy, former commandant of the U.S. Coast
Guard and former deputy secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.
"The GMM initiative puts forth a vision for where the system needs to be,
yet taking a realistic approach to these challenges."
The announcement was IBM's second in a series designed to help customers in
this arena. Just last month, IBM and Maersk announced the Intelligent
Trade Lane solution, which uses technology and analytical tools to bolster
security in customs, ports and borders. IBM also recently unveiled a new
diagnostic tool to help governments detect flaws and create viable
border-protection plans.
"We believe an integrated global economy requires an integrated global
security solution -- one that accounts for both the political and technical
dimensions of the problem," said W. Scott Gould, vice president, Public
Sector Strategy and Change for IBM and a coauthor of the whitepaper.
"Global Movement Management provides the incentives for the various
stakeholders in the system to cooperate, set standards, share information
and ultimately overcome the threats facing the global economy today."
Editor Note: The Global Movement Management white paper is available at
http://www.businessofgovernment.org/main/about/indexgli.asp. The paper is
co-authored by W. Scott Gould and Christian Beckner, senior consultant,
Public Sector Strategy and Change at IBM.
Information on Integrated Border Management is also covered in a new report
from the IBM Institute for Business Value titled "Expanded borders,
integrated controls: Achieving national prosperity and protection through
integrated border management," covering the cargo and passenger aspects of
GMM (available at www.ibm.com/bcs/iibv).
Contact:
Andy Kendzie
IBM Media Relations
301-803-2753
SOURCE: IBM
Source: Marketwire
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