The network will depend on fund raising (not taxes) to build the net, and the mayor doesn't answer the question of who will pay for operation or maintenance.
The Boston Globe reports that Boston Mayor Thomas Menino is looking for a nonprofit group to raise up to $20 million to build a public wireless Internet network. He has named Pamela Reeve, formerly of a software company called Lightbridge, to lead the search for a group to take on the effort. This effort is the result of a task force appointed by the mayor earlier this year to come up with a plan for Boston to catch up with other cities in developing a wireless Internet network. Here's the task force report itself.
Earlier this year, a report ("Boston Unplugged") sponsored by the Boston Foundation (EIN 04-2104021 Form 990) recommended that Boston pursue a public-private partnership similar to one in San Francisco and Philadelphia rather than rely on taxpayer funding.
The choice of a nonprofit solution already has skeptics (GigaOm: "Boston WiFi: Non-profit or Non-funded?" Boston has a lot of resources, both in the for-profit and nonprofit realm. But it also has a lot of well-heeled nonprofit players, which hinders any kind of collaborative effort (and, note to GigaOm, it might be relevant that Harvard and MIT are not in Boston, but across the river in Cambridge). Perhaps that is why Boston is already behind Philadelphia in its development.
From a politician's standpoint, a nonprofit solution is ideal. Those who are most eager for a wireless network don't have that many votes. It gets the issue off the city's plate.
東京電力福島第一原発事故で東電に巨額の損失が生じたのは、経営陣が地震や津波の安全対策を怠ってきたためだとして、株主らが東電に対し、歴代の経営陣に損害賠償請求訴訟を起こすよう求める書面を提出する方針を固めたことが分かった
請求額や対象者を検討した上で、今月中にも提出したいとしている。提出後、60日以内に東電が提訴しない場合、株主代表訴訟を東京地裁に起こすという。
株主の一人は「このままでは、過去の経営陣の責任追及があいまいになってしまう。裁判で責任の所在をはっきりさせるべきだ」と話した。一方、東電は「内容を把握していないので、コメントは差し控える」としている。
Posted by: バーバリーマフラー | November 04, 2011 at 04:36 AM
ティンバーランドカナダのケント環境相は12日、先進国に温室効果ガスの排出削減義務を課した京都議定書から正式に離脱することを明らかにした。主要メディアが報じた。
ティンバーランド同環境相は「わが国は京都議定書から正式に離脱する法的権利を行使する」と述べた。
Posted by: ティンバーランド | December 12, 2011 at 09:54 PM