I am going to attend this Monday's (Jan 26) Town Council meeting to address the issue of cost because it is a distracting maneuver. Nothing would be planned, let alone be acted upon, if it were pre-judged to be expensive. How do you know until you analyze the problem and a solution what the cost will be? You really can't. Instead, you make an instinctual decision based on past experiences and past data. When you are hunting mastodons this is prudent. When you are considering technology this is blindness.
Technology scares many people. It has a similar aura as does medicine. It is to be practiced, discussed, and decided upon by the trained experts. But, anyone who has had to care for a sick loved one knows that you can become an expert. It might only be in a single area of medicine but here you are an expert. You can meaningfully engage with the practitioners and the care. The amount of technology needed to be known about for community awareness is tiny. It has nothing to do with operating systems -- Windows or Macintosh -- or applications -- Microsoft Outlook or FileMaker. It has to do with understanding a few principles of data sharing and data securing. Understand the principles, let the experts debate the tools, and then come together to ensure that the tools enable the principles.
The last paragraph is not as clear as I would like. I am sure by Monday I will have a better story to tell.
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