PTC09: Final Coverage
Professor Jay Gillette, writing for Network World, picked up where I left off. Thanks Jay!
One of the most interesting papers from this conference was written by Robert Desourdis of SAIC. During the Emergency Communications and Disaster Management panel, he presented some of his thinking from this paper (pdf) . The part about 24 deficiencies? Why Pearl Harbor took the US Fleet by surprise, and not coincidentally how Sept. 11 happened, and Katrina’s response failures. It’s about who we are, collectively.
Finally, it’s worth noting that lots of communities are trying to take the “broadband” matter into their own hands. At the PTC ‘09 final luncheon on Wednesday, Louis Zacharilla of The Intelligent Community Forum awarded seven community networking awards recognizing communities that display at least one (in most cases several) of these Intelligent Community Indicators. These are communities that were being passed by for high speed broadband connections, or communities whose leaders decided that they would make their network connections an economic priority. There are some good lessons here.