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Overview
The San Francisco Bay Area is the world's technology innovation engine and the technology revolution here is transforming the world. The 2012 Olympic Games will harness the best and brightest of the region's technological minds to bring the world together through the Olympic Games and leave a lasting technological legacy for the region.
2012 will be the first truly interactive Olympic Games, providing information and support to athletes, organizers, volunteers, officials, spectators and the media. This technology will bring new advances and knowledge that can be applied to future Olympic Games.
Theme Team
To produce the technology section of the Bid, BASOC gathered together experts on the forefront of the technological revolution that began in the Bay Area. Headed by Bill Schlough, CIO for the San Francisco Giants, the team was comprised of members from Hewlett-Packard, Cisco Systems, PeopleSoft, Pacific Bell and other industry leaders. BASOC challenged the team to imagine the future of communications technology and create a vision for applications that would greatly enhance the Olympic experience. As industry visionaries, these team members were well positioned to provide ideas that incorporated a realistic view of possibilities for future advancements.
What is the My Olympic Games feature proposed in the bid?
The 2012 Olympic Games will feature My Olympic Games, a Web portal with multi-lingual information that is personalized and tailored to individuals, available anytime, anywhere to any device, from PDA's to cellular phones to laptops. Information will range from schedules, results, maps and communications.
Key Highlights
- From a telecommunications perspective, the San Francisco Bay Area is home to one of the most sophisticated networks in the country, due to intense competition, world-class universities and the Silicon Valley "innovation engine."
- The rapid, ongoing build-out of a communications infrastructure will provide unprecedented support and flexibility to Olympic athletes, organizers, media, volunteers and officials as they prepare for 2012.
- The communications system built for the 2012 will be created to satisfy the needs of the following audiences: the Olympic Family (athletes, organizers and media); Olympic spectators; volunteers; and Olympic suppliers.
- If awarded the bid, BASOC anticipates the need for 5,000 volunteers to be involved in supporting technology during the Olympic games. Many of these volunteers would be employees of local technology companies.
- Training for all participants in the Olympic Games—from the Olympic Family to spectators—will further disseminate knowledge and help decrease the "digital divide."
- · The use of such advanced communications technology will further connect Olympic fans around the world to both the experience of the Olympic Games and to each other.
For more information on Technology:
Contact Bill Schlough, CIO for the San Francisco Giants at 415-972-1715 or bschlough@sfgiants.com.
For media inquiries, please contact Tony Winnicker, BASOC, 650-856-2234 or 415-305-5617/ winnicker@yahoo.com or Kim Braun, Ketchum Communications, 415-984-2282/ kim.braun@ketchum.com.
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