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

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 (MA)to be closely watched as early proof-points. More

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