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Draft agenda for Dec. 10 CTTAB meeting
This meeting will be held:
December 10th, 2013, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Seattle Municipal Tower: 700 – Fifth Avenue (at Columbia St)
SPECIAL LOCATION: Room 1756 (17th floor)
Elevator is directly across from the one used for most meetings.
Comments can be provided to David.Keyes@seattle.gov for distribution to the Board or posted via Twitter including a mention of @CTTAB or the #CTTAB hashtag.
1. Welcome (10 min)
a. Introductions of all attendees
b. Review, amendments, and approval of this meeting’s agenda
c. Review, corrections/amendments, and approval of previous meeting’s minutes
2. Public comments (5 min)
3. Cable Office Update – Tony Perez (10 min)
4. Committee Accomplishments – Committee Chairs (2-3 min each = 10-15 min)
5. Elections of Board officers (5-10 min)
6. Code Revisions – Beryl Fernandes and/or David Keyes (10-15 min)
7. BREAK / Networking (10 min)
8. Recruiting Timeline – David Keyes, DoIT (10 min)
9. Race and Social Justice Initiative (RSJI) Workshop Details – Ben Krokower (5 min)
10. Adjourn
Upcoming Events
• Next CTTAB meeting: Tuesday, January 14th
Tentative agenda items for future meetings: Carry over from this meeting and (alphabetical):
CTTAB Meetings- Operational Issues (TBD min), Open Government (30 min)
• CTTAB Committee Listservs – contact David.Keyes@seattle.gov to be added:
o Broadband and Cable
o Digital Inclusion
o eGov
o PEOMPS
o Seattle Channel
Minutes: November 12 CTTAB meeting
Citizens Telecommunications and Technology Advisory Board (CTTAB)
Minutes
November 12, 2013, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
SPECIAL LOCATION:Room L280 Boards and Commissions Room, City Hall 601 5th Avenue
OVERVIEW:
1. Welcome, agenda & minutes approval
2. Public comments
3. Chief Technology Officer Report – Erin Devoto
4. Cable Refranchising – Community Needs Assessment: Board discussion with Cheryl Johnson from CTC Communications (90 min)
5. Review and vote on the new Seattle Channel Executive Summary language
6. Get Online for Health Campaign
7. December meeting and elections (5 min)
8. New member recruiting
9. CTTAB race and social justice workshop
10. Member Skills Survey
Comments can be provided to David.Keyes@seattle.gov for distribution to the Board
or posted via Twitter including a mention of @CTTAB or the #CTTAB hashtag.
Attending:
CTTAB Members: Nourisha Wells, Rob Dolin, Stacey Wedlake, Ben Krokower, Phillip Duggan, Daniel Hoang, Beryl Fernandes, Dana Lewis, Brian His (via phone)
Public: Cheryl Johnson (CTC Communications), Viet Nguyen (Frause), Dorene Corwell (STAR Center), Mary Taylor (CenturyLink), Joseph William (SPU School of Business), Henry Pan (Providence Health Services)
Staff: Erin Devoto, David Keyes, Sabra Schneider, Brenda Tate, Alice Lawson, John Giamberso, Tony Perez
1.Welcome (5 min)
- Introductions of all attendees
- Review and vote to approve this meeting’s agenda and previous meeting’s minutes
Postponed minutes approval until the next meeting.
2.Public comments: None
3.CTO Report – Erin Devoto
DoIT is working to put transition team in place with phones, computers, tablets and cell phones.
DoIT has started Phase Two of the Data Center Work with Price Waterhouse and HP as consultants.
Wed through Saturday, Seattle hosts National League of Cities. David, Dorene and Erin are giving presentations.
Last week the Stranger posted an article about the Mesh wireless networks. Police received a grant for it and DoIT was a vendor to the police department and helped stand it up
Wifi in city hall was originally a pilot. DoIT is now looking at adding an additional wifi capabilities
Erin and team working on transition papers in the next few weeks.
Ben asked who is responsible for mesh networks. Erin explained police is working with council on policies.
Erin also talked about public benefit of mesh network including metro information, SDOT and
4. Cable Refranchising – Community Needs Assessment: Board discussion with Cheryl Johnson from CTC Communications (90 min)
Tony Perez talked about improving customer services by improving the amount of time it takes to reach a real person at Comcast. He asked CTTAB to experiment and pass along the information to his office. Tony introduced Cheryl Johnson from CTC Technology and Energy and asked that the conversation focus stay with CTTAB members. Other ways to give input are the online survey and future discussion groups. Cheryl Johnson is seeking to find out what CTTAB members think is important in upcoming negotiations.
Cheryl’s questions and introductions
Reminder that we are no longer looking at just stand alone cable, its voice and data too even though we don’t regulate all of that.
We have to prove and document the needs of the community.
What are current and potential services are important in seattle?
Discussion and concern raised about asking for contact information in the survey.
Beryl asked that question 9 be broken up into two questions.
Intent is to walk through survey and get some feedback on the actual questions now and have CTTAB members put additional information in the survey
Question: Are free cable modems still important to the city?
Rob: Yes high demand through TMF grantees.
Phillip: Yes, it’s being used by all organizations
Brian: Is there a way to be more precise or open with language? IE 5 years from now, cable modems might not be the way people access the internet.
Tony: Good opportunity to help future proof the tool. This will be a tool, only one piece.
David: Clarified the current use of cable modems.
Cheryl: Can also email feedback.
Discussion ensued from many member of CTTAB about specific questions in the survey.
Cheryl and Tony handed out this template, asking attendees to gather info on call wait times from Comcast and other service providers.
5. Review and vote on the new Seattle Channel Executive Summary language. (10 min)
John Giamberso has posted the new language here: http://cttab.seattle.gov/2013/11/01/seattle-channel-scec-executive-summary-revision/
John also posted the Channel Diversity report on the CTTAB blog. See the Report.
John is looping back with CTTAB to get input on the Channel Mandate executive summary. Future plan for document are:
Updating Seattle Channel 5 year plan
Using priorities for negotiations
Erin responded to questions about the cable fund. Money is earmarked in an ordinance for community outreach.
Seattle Channel works to leverage partnerships, could do more
Ben moved to endorse the summary. Nourisha seconded.
6. Get Online for Health Campaign: help distributing materials –Stacey (5 min)
Stacey showed CTTAB posters and handouts for Get Online for Health
Asked CTTAB to give out posters at gatherings and groups to spread the word for get online week for health
Next quarters topic will be jobs and employment
7. December meeting and elections (5 min)
David and Rob noted that elections for the Chair and Vice Chair will take place at the December meeting. Rob will send out a note with the officer job descriptions. Members were encouraged to run for positions.
8. CTTAB Recruiting
Discussion started about recruitment and priorities for next year. Beryl suggested we solicit input from Mayor’s office and Council early so we might be able to plan and recruit based on their priorities.
CTTAB has one opening and two possible renewals. Renewing members need to be reconfirmed by council and the Mayors office.
9. CTTAB race and social justice workshop
Ben briefed CTTAB on the upcoming race and social justice workshop
December 12- The room fits 40 people, so there is room for adding more people
Tickets for pre workshop and visit the exhibit
Post exhibit workshop being planned for:
January 6, 3-5pm location TBD, at Seattle Municipal Tower
9. CTTAB Member Skills Survey
Rob passed out survey of topical expertise
8/9 CTTAB members answered
Rob reviewed the results
Purpose might help up recruit skills for vacancy
Is it possible to ask council what they’re working on
What do we want to work on for the retreat?
11. Other business
Next CTTAB meeting: Tuesday, December 10th
Meeting adjourned at 8:06.
Seattle Channel: Comparable Government Stations
The Seattle Channel staff completed this survey of comparable government stations with input from the Seattle Channel Committee and DOIT upper management. The narrative part of this report provides a quick view of the results especially for questions about changing technology, changing viewing habits, and increasing civic engagement. The spreadsheet section provides all the information for the stations surveyed including information about budgets, staffing and programming.
Narrative:
Spreadsheet: Click here to view
Seattle Channel Mid-Year Diversity Report
NLC Digital Inclusion mobile workshop materials
On Nov. 13th, David Keyes, with Sabra Schneider and staff, led a mobile workshop of 52 attendees from towns and cities across the country who were in Seattle for the National League of Cities Congress. The workshop visited Neighborhood House at Rainier Vista and the STAR special technology learning center at Center Park. Presentations covered the national digital inclusion framework, tips from the US Department Of Commerce BTOP Public Computing Center program, City of Seattle local government programs and partnerships, RecTech Community Center computer lab programs, and Comcast partnerships and Internet Essentials. Here are materials from the workshop:
Samantha Becker, University of Washington Information School:
David Keyes, City of Seattle:
(Also available on Slideshare)Michelle Chambers and Asfaha Lemlem, RecTech/ Associated Recreation Council:
Emy Tseng, US Department of Commerce NTIA BTOP Program:
Terry Davis and Walter Neary, Comcast of Washington, Internet Essentials Program (Updates, Partners)
Seattle Channel Promotional Spot
This promotional spot is currently playing on Comcast Cable channels
Seattle Channel SCEC Executive Summary Revision
The final version of the revision of the Executive Summary of the Seattle Commission on Electronic Communication Recommendations of December, 2001 is ready for approval by vote of the CTTAB committee. The objective of this work was to revise and update the original Executive Summary of the Commission’s recommendations. The complete report is available on the Seattle Channel’s website: http://www.seattle.gov/scec/
The process of revising and updating the Executive Summary included the following:
- presentation and solicitation of ideas and comments from the CTTAB committee at its August, 2013 meeting
- review of draft versions of the document via emails and meetings by Seattle Channel committee members and other CTTAB members
- revision of the document by the Seattle Channel staff based on feedback from the above processes
- approval from the upper management of the Department of Information Technology
Future plans for the document are to inform and guide the annual updates of the Channel’s five year plans and to have an updated version of the Seattle Commission on Electronic Communication Recommendations
.Digital Inclusion Committee Workplan
Here is the initial 2013 workplan for the Digital Inclusion and Technology Matching Fund Committee, as last presented to the Citizens Telecommunications and Technology Advisory Board (CTTAB) in June.
pdf:
Seattle neighborhoods prep their voices for Low Power Radio (LPFM)
October 15th was the day the F
CC had planned to start accepting license applications for new Low Power FM community radio licenses. The government shutdown temporarily delayed the applications, but that didn’t stop the LPFM party in Seattle. See a map of Seattle/Puget Sound Applicants. A room full of potential applicants from Seattle and the Puget Sound area gathered to celebrate their goal of getting licenses to operate and create new community outlets for diverse voices. The event was hosted by Brown Paper Tickets, which has led the effort to support station applications here. This includes Hollow Earth Radio which received a City of Seattle Technology Matching Fund grant from the Department of Information Technology to help their application and community engagement.
See a video of the event, more about LPFM and Rainier Valley Radio in the Seattle Times and coverage of the event in the Stranger.
Seattle’s CTTAB tech advisory board filed comments in 2012 to encourage the rules that are allowing these new station licenses (see letter below or on the FCC site). Sen. Maria Cantwell was one of the sponsors of the Community Radio Act that directed the FCC to open up the airwaves to new community radio stations. FCC opens a once-in-a-lifetime application window
Also see a video of the January forum on LPFM held at Langston Hughes Cultural Arts Center
