100 years ago regional and national companies promoting the new technologies of electricity, natural gas and water delivery, urban rail systems and the automobile competed for dominance in the newly minted town of Palo Alto. Stanford professors Wing and Marx led the community to establish city-owned utilities, resulting in lower prices for all utilities and 90-100% green elctric energy for residents today.
Today, information infrastructure giants are fighting to dominate urban markets, including Palo Alto. The City of Palo Alto has established the goal of providing open-access fiber optic infrastructure to every residence and business in Palo Alto for telephony, television and data services.
The technology and politics of information resource development will be discussed, past history, present trials and the development path to successful implementation, including qualifications and requirements for a successful bidder with reference to the current project: Strategic Partnership to Develop and Deploy a City-Wide Universal Telecommunications System in the City of Palo Alto - Request for Proposal.
About the speaker:
Mark Heyer is an internationally recognized pioneer of the information age. Born on the campus of Stanford University, raised in Marin County, National Market Development Manager for Interactive Products with Sony in New York in 1980, now back in Palo Alto as founder of the Silicon Valley World Internet Center in the Stanford Barn, Heyer is currently running as the first information candidate for Palo Alto City Council.
Mr. Heyer seeks to apply Internet networking principles and techniques to the enhancement of geographic communities. He is developing the concept of "information resource" development as a method of quantifying and understanding the disparate information ecologies of existing communities.
Contact information:
Mark Heyer
726 Marion Ave.
Palo Alto, CA 94303
650-325-8522
mark@heyertech.com