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Welcome to the TAC's home page. |
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The Technology Advisory Committee's portfolio includes the Board’s website, broadband policy, cable services, mobile, pay phone, polling, public access cable channels, and voting technologies. It seeks to improve local communication and the decision-making process.
Look around, send us your thoughts. If you'd like to dig into in the committee's work, click into the R&D Lab. No age or expertise requirements.
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Several options for hosting Community Board 3's web presence might soon be available. See a review and join a discussion of these options here.
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The committee's R&D effort seeks technology responses to community concerns and opportunities. This website and several past and present candidates have been presented to the community and board.
- Network Neutrality - The Internet traditionally operated under a parallel connect policy allowing everyone to send and receive information according to the speed capabilities of thier purchased line. Board 3 passed a Network Neutrality Resolution on December 14, 2006 calling for the continuation of that policy.
- The .NYC TLD - Board 3 passed an Internet Empowerment Resolution in April 2001 that called for the city to acquire the .NYC TLD (top level domain name). With a new TLD application opportunity approaching, we're seeking organizational relationships that might facilitate its development.
- Virtual World Tools - The committee is exploring ways the metaverse might be used in the planning process. Connect to the committee's experiment using New York Law Schools's Democracy Island to explore how one popular service enables modeling a new park in the Landing Lights area of the district.
- Internet Radio - One solution to the paucity of local media is the creation of an audio channel dedicated to local needs.
- Part of The Solution - This project envisions a database that matches and organizes resident resources so as to address commuity problems.
- RSS - See the Board's RSS resolution on networking websites.
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Recent TAC Meeting Reports |
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Here are the reports from the most recent meetings of the Technology Advisory Committee.
- December 11, 2006 Meeting - Network Neutrality, Cell Towers
- November 13, 2006 Meeting - CITI Youth Program, Network Neutrality, Virtual Tools / Landing Lights Park, The .nyc TLD, Audio Services, Citizen Government
- May 16, 2006 Meeting - CITI Youth Program, Internet Radio
- March 9, 2006 Meeting - Internet Radio, Network Neutrality, The .nyc TLD, Virtual Planning Spaces
- November 22, 2005 Meeting - Broadband Availability, Recording, Network Neutrality, .nyc TLD, Virtual Planning Spaces
- October 14, 2005 Meeting - PEG Channels, DSL Availability, Recording, Network Neutrality, Virtual Planning Spaces
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Picture Request: UGLY BETTIES & Pretty Pattys |
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One new item (12/06) on the committee's agenda is cell towers. We're considering a contest on best and worst. Send your pictures to the committee chair. We'll post them here.
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Community Board committee members are of two types: Board Members and Public Members. Board Members request committee assignments and are appointed to a committee by the Board’s Chair. Public Members are local residents with an interest in a committee’s work who have applied to the Board’s Chair requesting membership. The following are the members of Queens Community Board 3’s Technology Advisory Committee.
Board Members
- Steve Kulhanek, Committee Chair
- Patrick Beckles
- Vivian Dock
- Grace Lawrence, Ex-Officio
Public Members
- Eugene Atkins
- Thomas Lowenhaupt
- Jeffrey Saunders
- Gene Stuart
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Links to ICT Oriented Websites |
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The above links will take you to websites providing information about the online world. These sites are maintained by others and, while they were of quality on the date posted, we can not guarantee that they remain so today. If you think one should be removed, or would like to suggest one to be added, please email toml@communisphere.com.
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Technology Advisory Committee Files |
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Technology Advisory Committee Meeting Report - March 31, 2005.html
Meeting report contains information on RSS, QPTV, Audio Access, and Fiver Optic Redlining.
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8k |
tom |
4/20/05 |
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Proposed RSS resolution
Community Board 3's proposal for the use of RSS on all NYC websites. |
3k |
tom |
3/24/05 |
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Technology Advisory Committee Meeting Report - December 9, 2004.rtf
Meeting report contains information on the Board's website, training, blogs, Second Life, email. |
22k |
tom |
12/21/04 |
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Technology Advisory Committee Meeting Report - October 20 2004.rtf
Meeting report contains information on the Board's website, pay phones, consultations, effective use of the Internet, and The Great Tree Hunt Competition. |
75k |
tom |
10/27/04 |
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Links to Communication Resources on Other Websites |
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RSS basics +
Technology behind Board 3's resolution encouraging city agencies to use RSS. |
tom |
2/4/05 |
none |
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211 - The Information and Health Resource Phone Number
Thsi 100+ page report reviews the status of 211 servcies on a state by state basis. |
tom |
1/12/05 |
none |
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Online Privacy
The Website,
www.consumerprivacyguide.org, offers tips for understanding the fundamentals
of online privacy: how to read a privacy policy; and advice on using more sophisticated privacy tools, like anonymous remailers and encryption. The site was launched by the Center for Democracy & Technology and other like minded organizations.
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tom |
12/20/01 |
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An Animated Editorial
This is an example of a "serious game." It's called September 12. Some refer to it as an animated editorial. |
tom |
9/29/03 |
none |
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NETFUTURE - Technology and Human Responsibility
A tough read, but provides the philosophical basis for making decisions about technology and how we might deal with it. |
tom |
12/9/03 |
none |
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Guidelines for community groups creating a website.
A step by step description of the considerations for those creating a website for thier civic, youth, senior, or other local organization. |
tom |
1/6/04 |
none |
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Effective Use of the Internet
A paper by Dr. Michael Gurstein describing the digital divide as that barrier separating those who can produce or actively participate in the affairs of the digital state and those who can't. |
tom |
2/1/04 |
none |
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Center for Digital Democracy
A Proposed Outline for A Public Interest Media Agenda |
tom |
10/1/04 |
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Planetwork Journal
People thinking about a network-centric world. What does it mean to individuals and organizations? |
tom |
10/3/04 |
none |
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Government Games from the Gotham Gazette
Games that provide information about NYC government processes. |
tom |
10/12/04 |
none |
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| What features should be added to this website? |
| There are an endless number of features that can be added to this website. Take a look around the internet, anything you see can out there be done here. Help us decide what to do next. Which of the following is most important to you? |
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Poll Closed, but see the results.
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