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Internet Radio Newsletter May /June

An Interview with Jim Katz

We conducted an interview with the the Department of Administration and Finance for The City of Jacksonville. Specifically with the Technology Strategy & Communications Team of the ITD (Information Technology Division).

The Information Technology Division is an overall IT Division for the City of Jacksonville. It is involved in the management of many IT functions, as you will learn here.

Look over the chart below before you listen to our radio interview.

The chart is divided into basically three parts. The inner yellow circle area is subdivided in two on the left is the functions of the City IT (information technology) department that essentially serves the inner workings of city services. On the right side are those services that go out to the public. Surrounding the inner circle is a red circular section that encompasses security issues for the entire set of operations.

There is no way we could have discussed all these varied areas in a half hour interview but the coj.net has a great web site that you can use. Also check out the chart below to see all that they do in some detail. Here is a link so you can visit the coj.net web site and utilize what the City provides through its network

In order to listen to any of thecomputersociety.org radio programs, it is necessary that your audio system be set up properly. The format we are using is mp3 files delivered as streaming audio. The interview is approximately 5 megabytes large and lasts nearly 30 minutes.To begin click the link below. We begin talking about GIS which is Geographic Information Services which is about Maps and Mapping provided by the City....

Link for streaming audio mp3 file for Interview

The interview can also be downloaded without streaming by going to the following link and right clicking this link and choosing "save target as". For dial up connections saving a file can be faster than streaming. Just remember where you saved the file, then listen to it whenever you want.

Download link for Interview

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