Jack McCredie's Parting Thoughts - December 6, 2005
At the Micronet meeting of Tuesday, December 6, 2005, Jack McCredie, outgoing Associate Vice Chancellor for Information Technology and campus Chief Information Officer, shared his thoughts one more time with the group.
In email to Micronet's coordinators following the talk, Jack wrote: "Thanks for asking me to give some 'parting thoughts' at the Micronet meeting today. Here are the references I mentioned."
Thomas Friedman, The World is Flat: A brief history of the 21st century
"The dozen opportunities & challenges I mentioned:"
- Security & privacy
- Re-invent central & departmental IT organizations
- Transform teaching & learning environments
- Governance, structure, & organization of IT
- Collaboration technologies
- The flattening world
- Open source
- Massive digitization
- Government regulations
- Intellectual property rights
- Competition from Google, Yahoo, et al.
- Rationalize the national higher education networking environment
"Regarding this last item - I am attaching the principles recently agreed to by the boards of Internet2 and National Lambda Rail."
This Merger Principles document can be downloaded as a Microsoft Word file.
Jack concluded: "And thanks again to all Micronet participants for your support during the past 13+ years! Happy holidays."
