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Muni-Wireless in Distress: What Happens Now to Digital Equity?
by Alan R. Shark, PTI Executive Director
Published with permission from the December 2007 PA TIMES, monthly newspaper of the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA).
Those closely following what has been called the “Muni-Wireless movement” have reached a near state of hysteria with the recent announcement that Earthlink was initiating a strategic pullback from the dozen or so communities that they had invested in, and had been committed to build out city-wide wireless networks.
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12-19-2007
PTI and Corpus Christi Celebrate Completion Of Wireless Network
December 5, 2006—More than 100 government officials and technology vendors from across the country helped the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, witness the completion of the City’s 147-square-mile multipurpose wireless broadband network at the PTI seminar Wi-Fi Done Right.
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12-08-2006
2006 Leadership Retreat
Identifying the top issues that “keep local government Chief Information Officers up at night” was the focus of the 2006 Technology Leadership Retreat and Forum, convened by PTI in Phoenix, Arizona, October 16-17, 2006.
The Forum brought together CIOs representing local governments ranging in size from Los Angeles County, California (population 9.9 million) to Urbandale, Iowa (population 35,000).
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10-18-2006
Interoperability and Critical Communications Seminar, September 2006
More than 60 local government officials and communications industry representatives came together to participate in a PTI seminar entitled Interoperability for Critical Communications, September 28, 2006 in Kansas City, MO to discuss data and voice interoperability issues and solutions.
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09-29-2006
GIS Forum April 2006 Meeting
Chicago, April 29 and 30, 2006
The GIS Forum is the network of local officials from PTI member cities and counties responsible for GIS activities. The GIS Forum met at the beginning of the 2006 Congress for Technology Leadership.
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04-30-2006
Highlights: Web Management Forum Spring 2006 Meeting
Web Management Forum, 2006 Congress for Technology Leadership, Chicago, April 29-30, 2006
The Web Management Forum is the network of officials from PTI member cities and counties responsible for the delivery of web and E-gov services. Byron West, Director of Customer Information Services for the City and County of Denver, Colorado served as the meeting facilitator.
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04-30-2006
