加利福尼亚州圣拉蒙 -国际数据组（IDG）计算机世界荣誉计划announced
San Ramon Valley Fire Protection District as a 2011 Laureate for Innovation. The annual award program honors visionary applications of information technology promoting positive social, economic and educational change. The District was selected for its iPhone application that provides immediate, life‐saving assistance to victims of Sudden Cardiac Arrest by crowd‐sourcing Good Samaritans.
“The number and quality of nominations this year was very inspiring and demonstrated how valuable ITis to community change,” said John Amato, Publisher, Computerworld. “Computerworld is very proud toname the 2011 class of Laureates and showcase their initiatives benefiting society through innovativeuses of IT。”
“该申请最初是针对大约30万人遭受院士的人cardiac arrest each year in the United States,” said Richard Price, Fire Chief for the San Ramon ValleyFire Protection District. “Numerous investigations have shown that bystander CPR results in a doublingor tripling of patient survival, yet CPR rates across the country have remained unacceptably low at大约26％。该应用程序旨在通过立即提醒日常公民来提高这一百分比to the need for CPR nearby while also directing them to public access defibrillators when available.”
The Computerworld Honors awards will be presented at the Annual Laureates Medal Ceremony & GalaAwards on June 20, 2011 at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington, D.C.
圣拉蒙谷消防区是一个国际认可的特殊区向阿拉莫（Blackhawk）社区提供全风险的消防，救援和紧急医疗服务the Town of Danville, Diablo, the City of San Ramon, the southern area of Morgan Territory and the北加州的Tassajara Valley（Contra Costa县）。该地区的服务区域包括approximately 155 square miles and serves a population of 170,000. The District has established afoundation to assist other public safety agencies to deploy the application in their community.
该申请是与北部应用信息中心合作开发的Kentucky University (NKU). For additional web and print resources, including sample screen shots,支持图像和视频，请访问消防部门的iPhone应用程序着陆页http://www.firedepartment.mobi. A Public Service Announcement (PSA) video to raise local awareness关于该应用程序也可以在网站上找到。
关于计算机世界荣誉计划
Founded by International Data Group (IDG) in 1988, The计算机世界的荣誉Program由非营利性计算机世界信息技术奖基金会。计算机世界的荣誉is the longest running global program to honor individuals and organizations that use information促进积极的社会，经济和教育变革的技术。有关的其他信息the program and a Global Archive of past Laureate case studies and oral histories of Leadership Awardrecipients can be found这里在计算机世界荣誉网站上。
