Q & A with Steve Reneker, CIO of the City of Riverside, CA

This is a post I came across today. 

 

Q & A with Steve Reneker, CIO of the City of Riverside, CA

Steve Reneker, with the support of Mayor Ron Loveridge has lead the Riverside Wireless network deployment in a unique public-private partnership with ATT. Besides its public access objectives, the emphasis was put on leveraging the city wide infrastructure to improve government services productivity and public safety, leading to a broad local government anchor tenancy agreement with ATT. This prompted W2i to single out the Riverside project in early 2006 as one of a handful of experiments along with the city-wide projects of Minneapolis MN and Brookline MAto be closely watched as early proof-points.

I know we are in a ‘tough’ economic times, but it would be great to see what we could accomplish here. Building a network like this would be a huge PR hit for the city of Lakeland, and they definitely have the broad fiber network that could support a wireless one. I would love to see some leadership comming from our commision to see that an initiative like this is persued. With no offense to our current commission. I think it is completely off their radar.

Prove me wrong!