Taskforce members include

Scott Otis – ADC; Steve Sandness – Agate Partners; Matt Thomas – Best Buy; Gary Hansen – resident; Mike Neill – CH Robinson Worldwide Inc.; Mike Schnapf – Digital River; Dave Sandum – Eden Prairie Schools; Kiran Mysore – GE Fleet; Heather Peterson – Hennepin County Library; Marc Soldner – Hennepin Technical College; Lisa Hodne – Ingenix; Ron Woods – IT-Phenom; Rich Muller – Micro Business Strategies; Jim Dake – Midwave; John Eversman – Supervalu; Jody Russell – Thunder Communications Design.

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For a link to the new Technology Task Force blog, click here.

Blog created for Community Technology Task Force

As it is assessing the community’s telecommunication needs in the coming months, the newly created Community Technology Task Force will be looking to get resident and business input.

According to Bill Coleman, consultant with Community Technology Advisors, the task force now has a Web log citizens can visit at http://edenprairieweblogs.org/techtaskforce/.

According to that Web log, the Task Force was started recently “to advise city officials on telecommunication and technology issues. Over the next six months, task force members will review the city’s current telecommunications infrastructure and services, hold discussions with telecom providers about their future deployment plans, gather input from the business community and residents about their technology use and expectations, and develop a technology vision and recommendations for the Eden Prairie City Council.”

The blog will be a place for people to go and provide comments, said Coleman.

Those on the task force will use it  “as a continuing way to communicate with the public about the project and what we’re finding.”

Coleman said they’ll be launching an online survey in the next month that will be accessible through the blog and through the city of Eden Prairie Web site, www.edenprairie.org.

The surveys will be for businesses and residential households, he said.

On they business side, they’ll be looking find out how businesses connect to the Internet now. Additionally, they plan to ask about the firm’s ability to get telecommunications services, how well those services meet their needs and how satisfied they are with the pricing. The survey will also likely ask what they think the city’s role should be in promotion of telecommunications.

“We’ll ask the businesses what they think about the city’s prospective role in this service.”