Town IT lead Bob Avery and I constituted the sole attendance at tonight’s Technology Board swan song.
During the recently well-attended dissolution of the Horace-William’s Committee, the committee members wrangled out some excellent final advisory language for Council.
Tonight, the tech board was supposed to discuss and pass on 8 final recommendations/observations to Council. Most folks had already expressed their concerns about the “lame duckness” of our final efforts, but I thought we had a consensus on, as one member put it, “a way to wrap up things nice and neat.”
Maybe, as some suggested, it wasn’t worth the effort to advise, one last time, a Council that has generally failed to follow through on our recommendations they approved.
Maybe our Mayor’s recent dismissal of the importance of technology in the new town manager selection process doused the membership’s spirits.
Maybe it was just “board fatigue”.
While I don’t have a quorum to endorse those final thoughts, I’ll present them here for completeness when I get a copy.
X-Posted from OrangePolitics:
Town Forum on Municipal Networking
On Thursday May 18 the Chapel Hill Town Council will host a public forum on Municipal Wireless Networking. The event will be from 7 to 9PM and be held at Town Hall, 405 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. All are invited to attend.
The event will be moderated by Shannon Schelin, Ph.D. of the Institute of Government at UNC. She will also make a presentation. Other speakers include Casey Lide of Baller Herbst in Washington, DC; Lynda Goff, Executive Director of WinstonNet in Winston-Salem, NC; Ray Reitz, Chief Technology Officer of Chapel Hill Carrboro School System; and Chad Johnston, Executive Director of The People’s Channel. For more information about the speakers please see the Town event webpage.
There will be time at the end of the event for questions and answers.
If you can’t make it in person you can watch the event on Public Access channel 18.
Bellsouth denies USA Today charge, claims no sharing of records.
According to CNN and other news sources, Bellsouth denies USA Today’s claim that it participated in the massive NSA privacy breach.
In several reports, Bellsouth spokesman Jeff Battcher claims
Battcher said BellSouth’s customer service department had received only 26 complaints about reports that private phone records may have been relayed to the government.
26 sounds quite low, especially since I know 5 folk, including myself, that called when the story broke.
