 Microsoft Citizen Safety Architecture enables governments to rapidly prototype, build, and deploy solutions to help improve citizen safety and security.  Engage citizens, improve productivity, and modernize infrastructure through flexible solutions tailored for local, regional, and national governments.  Microsoft helps governments apply technology innovation to strengthen economies, address societal challenges, and promote a healthy online ecosystem.  Reduce energy consumption, rethink business processes, and measure policy effectiveness to reach government environmental sustainability goals.  Through a broad range of Government Engagement Programs, Microsoft partners with policy makers and governments in more than 120 countries.  Microsoft and its partners help governments provide interoperability using open government principles and standards.  The move to commodity technology and the G-Cloud Framework are set to change the way that the public sector buys technology forever.  Help reduce costs, simplify management, improve services, provide transparency, and improve citizen interaction in a safe and secure manner with cloud computing  Open standards help governments provide greater transparency, spawn innovation, and create efficiencies in administration with maximum interoperability.  The Open Government Data Initiative is a cloud-based collection of software assets that enables publicly-available government data to be easily accessible.  Microsoft works closely with government leaders and policymakers around the world to more strategically and effectively address issues of cyber security. |
