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| | | | Subterranean homesick privatization Happy hump day, Baltimore. To those of you that signed up for this newsletter after I badgered you during a Baltimore Innovation Week event, welcome! For the rest of you: Hello again! BIW programming continued at a steady clip today, with more insightful talks and panels that featured the likes of Paulo Gregory (Cohado, Black Butterfly Network), Seema Iyer (Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators Alliance), Enrica Jang (Edgar Allan Poe House & Museum) and other notable local leaders. But today, my thoughts are on something that might almost literally shake the ground below all of us. The Baltimore Banner reported that Mayor Brandon Scott today proposed a $50,000 contract with FMI Capital Investors that several councilors argued could risk putting Baltimore's underground conduit system — a 700-mile underground network of wiring for phones, electricity and internet — up for sale without adequate public feedback. City Council President Nick Mosby ultimately pushed a vote on the contract to after the November election, during which city residents will vote on a ballot measure that asks if we should ban potential privatization of this system. The debate over the system's future, as the article noted, is set against a backdrop of city negotiations with BGE, questions about the conduit system's usefulness (especially when telecoms instead build 5G towers) and if privatization could stall the mayor's quest for a more connected, digitally equitable city. But what do you think about the contract, the ballot measure or the overall issue? Is a conduit system useful enough to keep in city hands? Would selling it make our already entrenched digital divide even worse? Would the positives of privatization outweigh the negatives? Let us know your thoughts by replying to this email or sending another to baltimore@technical.ly. – Technical.ly editor Sameer Rao (sameer@technical.ly) | | | | | Top Stories | | By Plus, Baltipreneurs and 1501 Health are back for another year of their programs. DC- and Baltimore-area startups: take note. Read more » By These company heads have advice that's valuable for any workplace. Read more » By Squadra Ventures COO Margaret Roth Falzon recaps the insights and advice that founders shared during the session she organized for Baltimore Innovation Week 2022. Read more » By The startup, which counts recent Johns Hopkins university alums among its senior-most employees, will put the funds toward developing prototypes of its flagship device for delivering medicine directly to patients' brains. Read more » | Blast from the past 3D Maryland is a 2,000-square-foot, $500,000 facility from the Howard County Economic Development Authority that could become a statewide initiative for broadening awareness and impact of new manufacturing techniques. Read more » | Your Job in Tech Search all open jobs and hiring companies Featured Jobs Think Company operates in the United States as a fully remote company. As such, please consider this a remote (work from home) position. Please note that Thinkers are expected to operate within...Find out more » Drive superior results and put your analytical mind to work Are you ready to put your classroom experience into action? Vanguard’s College to Corporate Internship Program as part of the broader Data...Find out more » Drive superior results Why join Vanguard’s Data & Analytics Advanced Development Program (ADP)? This program will provide an opportunity to collaborate alongside a team of premier data analysts...Find out more » This Week in Jobs Even influencers miss the fine print. Read more » SUBSCRIBE to TWIJ Post a Job Get a Job | Events View all events Promote your event | | |
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