Robert Atkinson Quotes (6 Quotes)

On September 1, the water line was at our headquarters, ... Outside our headquarters, the water is gone. It's not until you leave the area to which you're specifically assigned and you go outside that you see the devastation, that you see the water still flooding buildings up to half-way up their length that you realize there's still a lot to do here.

Arkansas's approach may prove one of the most popular business models for funding and operating government portals today, but it is not a sustainable option, says Robert Atkinson, director of the technology and new economy project at the Progressive Policy Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based organization with the mission of advancing the government's agenda for the information economy. Governments that aren't willing to pay any money into electronic services can get up and running and put some applications online, ... Most jurisdictions in this country don't have the expertise to do this in-house. The risk of the outsourcing model is that they're getting the revenue from the users. Ultimately, I don't think the consumer is going to be paying for this. You don't pay now when you go to look at a deed.

You still have buildings that are well over halfway flooded with water, ... What you use as landmarks is, you use the streets signs, which you can barely see the tops of.

We're going to see a variety of passengers. There will certainly be corporate consumers, there will also be people going there for tourism.

The question would be how much leeway does the government official have to do that kind of snooping without proper judicial review That to me is the issue.

We're going to be operating three times a week at the start of this service to Buenos Aires,