Thursday, June 4, 2009

What's the public CIO's role with broadband stimulus?

June 4, 2009

Hardly a town, hill or hamlet in America has not contemplated how it might take advantage of the $7.2 billion broadband stimulus package. Many have been planning for months. Whether acknowledged or not, the local government's CIO has a prominent role in this pondering and planning.

Local governments typically are a driving force in broadband initiatives. Their CIOs, logically, should be the point people since they know technology better than most, their job is determining which technologies best meet end-users' needs, and they have expertise implementing technology...