Who Owns the Problem?
When infrequent power outages occur, the usual response is to check the street lights, contact your neighbor, or make a visual inspection of the power line on the street. Unless the outage originates inside your home or office, the next call is to the electric utility that owns the problem. Ownership of network or internet […]
Transforming Public Infrastructure? The Private Sector Can Help
A deluge of web based consumer applications like Uber, Airbnb, Lyft, Amazon and other industry disrupting technologies raise the question, how and when will technology transform our public institutions? Connecticut schools, town halls, public libraries, public higher education institutions and civic organizations have used computers and electronic databases for years but institutional transformation has lagged […]
