Disclosure: Cisco is a client of the author.
If you’re in the U.S., you’ve likely been thinking — as you await slow-to-arrive election results —that there must be a better way. We bank online, handle medical needs online, communicate online, run our businesses online, and now many of us in the US are sweating out the election online.
But we don’t vote online. That resistance to online voting is because there was a significant attempt to vote online nearly two decades ago, and it failed badly. The technology wasn’t ready.
Though it has improved, decision-makers still don’t trust technology. That’s where a significant effort by Cisco to bring technology into the government comes in. It’s called WebEx Legislate, and it showcases how the collaboration world is adjusting to the new pandemic normal.
