Editorial: City government calls for tech support

Allan Frank, city CIO
Here’s a test.
Just how innovative and influential, forward-thinking yet practical is the technology community in Philadelphia? Because you’re being challenged.
We’re still reeling from a presentation that Allan Frank, the city’s chief information officer, gave at a meeting of Refresh Philly Monday night.
The Nutter administration is investing $100 million during the next four years into city technology, including a complete overhaul of Phila.gov, as he told 75 mostly professional, tech-savvy 30 and 40-somethings in a modern, white-walled conference room on the 45th floor of the Comcast Center yesterday.


