Meeting - Jun 16 2005

ISOC-NY Meeting June 16 2005

Attendees

• Roberto Amoroso (works for Metro North)
• Jay Sulzberger
• Trina Semorile
• Michael Smith
• Danielle Patane (on behalf of sister Angela in San Francisco)
• Veni Markovski
• Bruce Lai
• Lyn Ohira
• Jason Schogel
• Dovlet Sapali ?
• David Solomonoff
• Gale Brewer

Minutes

At this meeting Gale Brewer, chair of the NYC Council Committee on Technology in Government, gave a presentation on the state of broadband in NYC. Some bullet points:

• There are plenty of places where even dialup is a problem
• There is a wireless network for emergency services but they don't want to share it with anyone
• Universities and libraries get erate funds from the federal government
• Wants all schools to have portals
• New staff person at EDC, Director of ITT which is part of the administration, is in charge or radios
• NYPD has a CIO that reports directly to the commissioner
• Earthlink wants to rent space on street lights for wireless broadband
  • Jay: Wireless broadband must support free OSs
  • Veni: People assume it is secure, but it is not
• 13 DA's are doing nothing by cybercrime in NYC
• The council can tell Earthlink to be OS neutral
• A bill has been introduced to make a task force for broadband