Delivering Bandwidth Like Pizza

Abstract

Our next speaker is a real plus because, with a schedule like his, we didn’t expect him to be able to accept the invitation to speak. But he found time, and we are enormously pleased that he did. Today, he takes the broad view—I suppose you’d expect him to since he comes from a legal background—and he’s now in public office. He’s the first man in his job to develop and expand an Internet site that’s now getting 14,000 hits a day. On that site, you can get copies of his organization’s decisions, agendas, speeches, public notices and telephone directory. He introduced a fax answer-on-demand system for his clients. He’s the organization’s first chairman to involve himself in public on-line chat sessions, and the first to have a personal computer on his desk—and to put one on every employee’s desk too, making sure that all of them are connected to the Internet. He’s also about to give the organization an 800 number.