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Andrew Gillum: Digital Harmony Project: computers & internet for schoolkids

Gillum was responsible for a number of community enrichment projects during his eleven years as a city commissioner. The Digital Harmony Project is an initiative championed by Gillum with support from the City of Tallahassee, local businesses and technology partnerships. Digital Harmony won the Significant Achievement Award in the Web & e-Government Services category from the Public Technology Institute. For the first two years, it provided every incoming Nims Middle School sixth and seventh-grader with a new desktop computer, free internet access and online academic curriculum training on core subjects. The school holds ongoing training courses for parents and students on basic computer skills and school curriculum. This effort places 200 computers into the homes of Nims Middle School students.
Source: Wikipedia summary for 2018 Florida Gubernatorial race Mar 11, 2017

Eric Greitens: OpEd: used self-immolating texting despite open records laws

In December 2017, Greitens and senior members of his staff were accused by Democrats and government transparency advocates of subverting Missouri's open records laws after the Kansas City Star reported that they used Confide, a messaging app that erases texts after they have been read, on their personal phones. Two attorneys filed suit, claiming that use of such "self-immolating" apps by elected officials and government employees violates Missouri's public records laws.

On January 3, 2018, House Bill 1817 was filed in the state legislature, to ban use of apps like Confide in conducting public business, and the House Speaker told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that in its 2018 session the legislature might consider modernizing the state's current open records laws. Attorney General Josh Hawley initiated an investigation regarding possible violations of the state's Sunshine laws, after allegations that a state employee had managed a social media account on behalf the governor.

Source: Wikipedia.com on 2018 Missouri Gubernatorial impeachment Aug 31, 2018

Josh Hawley: Investigate state use of self-immolating messaging

In December 2017, Greitens and senior members of his staff were accused by Democrats and government transparency advocates of subverting Missouri's open records laws after the Kansas City Star reported that they used Confide, a messaging app that erases texts after they have been read, on their personal phones.

Attorney General Hawley at first claimed conflict of interest, but on December 20 announced his office would investigate, saying that the matter was legally complex because the state Sunshine Law "was written decades and decades ago and has not been updated to take into account" technological changes.

On January 3, 2018, House Bill 1817 was filed in the state legislature, to ban use of apps like Confide in conducting public business. Attorney General Hawley initiated an investigation regarding possible violations of the state's Sunshine laws, after allegations that a state employee had managed a social media account on behalf the governor.

Source: Wikipedia.com on 2018 Missouri Gubernatorial impeachment Aug 31, 2018

Ted Stevens: The internet is like a series of tubes

"Series of tubes" is an analogy used by Ted Stevens to describe the Internet in the context of network neutrality. On June 28, 2006, he used this metaphor, which, along with several other odd choices of words, was widely ridiculed as demonstrating Stevens' poor understanding of the Internet. [His Senate speech:]
Ten movies streaming across that Internet, and what happens to your own personal Internet? I just the other day got... an Internet was sent by my staff on Friday, I got it Tuesday. Why? Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the Internet commercially.

They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the Internet. And again, the Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It's not a big truck It's a series of tubes. And if you don't understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material.

Source: Wikipedia.com article, "Series of tubes" Jun 28, 2006

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