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<font face="Garamond">One of the general points that I think is missed
in the great technology push for connectivity period is " why are we
doing this ' and generally the whole why is lost in the excitement of
the whiz bang technology, we gotta have one of these .<br>
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Take for example the RFP coming out of Albuquerque, absolutely nowhere
is the statement made about how broadband could improve city services
and no due diligence has been done to cost effectively measure
improvement alternative to cost at any speed let alone high speed
digital. This could be of huge cost benefit to the city but its
financial factors are ignored. Its also well known that efficient and
government at any level constitute an oxymoron and that applies to a
much larger sense overseas even in lesser developed ( ie: India ) were
the telcom's are the flag carriers and as such totally protected.
Locally this is the reason for the soon to be demise of Azulstar in one
of the fastest growing areas of the state and its sister project in
Sandoval.<br>
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I liked Andrew and Richards comments that the economics must drive the
high speed connection and not vice versa but how many people in the
political arena really believe that..<br>
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Its becoming apparent that the majority of users of many of the muni
systems in the US are in fact government employees and this brings us
right round in a circle as to "How well do you provide the current
services " and if badly whats the point of doing something wrong
faster. Just look at how well State and County and City governments use
basic web sites and email and you will get the picture. The huge
investigation in Santa Fe up at the legislative level at the moment is
simply because SHARE bluntly does not, to anyone. Our schools are being
connected with fiber but the programs to take advantage of the pipe are
not on the horizon and thats without getting involved in advanced
projects like SCADA which could save millions.<br>
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Recently i read an article about communicating with US government
back in George Washington's days when it took a whole year round trip
to get messages to and from the system but they responded the same day,
now we communicate instantly but the system still takes a year to get
back with a response, so whats changed.<br>
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One of the best texts that I have ever read that examines this, is "
The politics of Information Management " by Paul Strassmann<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.amazon.com/Politics-Information-Management-Policy-Guidelines/dp/0962041343/ref=sr_1_4/102-4609236-7482553?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1180499205&sr=8-4">http://www.amazon.com/Politics-Information-Management-Policy-Guidelines/dp/0962041343/ref=sr_1_4/102-4609236-7482553?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1180499205&sr=8-4</a><br>
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Carrol - you remember this lecture many moons ago based on what
potential a German Telco saw in New Mexico.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.ideapete.com/leapfrog.html">http://www.ideapete.com/leapfrog.html</a><br>
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Its all about economics, REAL economics Milton Friedman type<br>
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( : ( : peter<br>
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