Post by Mike Klassen in City Focus Aug 30, 2010:
Mayor Gregor Robertson decreed that he and council, plus his staff need Apple iPads and state-of-the-art iPhone 4 handsets, and 15 of each of the units are now on order through Vancouver's IT department. In case you've not noticed already, Canada's Blackberry devices produced by Ontario's Research in Motion company, are the device du jour for cities and other levels of government across the continent. However, there is that "hipness factor" which apparently is drawing Hizonner into the Apple fold. Yes, it seems that in order to be seen as a "progressive" government, it makes more sense for Robertson & co., and the City Manager to be carrying around iPads and iPhone 4s. Now, of course this produces massive headaches for IT departments, who by nature have one set of support and security protocols across the board. But we're told that the City Manager effectively told staff – if that's what the Mayor wants, that's what he gets.
1 comment:
Just like Obamination in the states, nothing like "Left Wing Liberal Pinkos" spending money they don't have!
Just following in the footsteps of Glen Clark and his merry band of bolshevik's that left a 20 billion dollar debt with their incompetence.
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