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Latest revision as of 05:46, 26 February 2008
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
