Feb. 7, 2013 10:00 am
Baltimore city financial forecast predicts $745M in budget deficits over the next decade
Update 2/7/13 11:05 a.m.: Don’t panic yet, people. For some context, look to the Baltimore Brew, which reports that “the city’s current 2013 budget is balanced, there is $90 million available in a ‘budget stabilization reserve,’ and next year’s projected shortfall of $30.3 million is modest compared to recent budget deficits.” Baltimore city is on track [...]
Jan. 16, 2013 8:30 am
CIO Chris Tonjes wants 25 miles of fiber to expand Baltimore’s fiber network [VIDEO]
As Baltimore city’s CIO Chris Tonjes told the crowd at December’s Baltimore TechBreakfast, he’s looking to change up some of the tenets of the mission of the Mayor’s Office of Information Technology. Part of his proposed shift is to have MOIT focus more on greater public engagement and improving digital access across the city, as [...]
Jan. 7, 2013 9:00 am
Chris Tonjes: city CIO discusses VoIP phones, speed cameras and water billing at TechBreakfast [VIDEO]
As city CIO Chris Tonjes said at December’s Baltimore TechBreakfast, his biggest challenge is tempering his expectations to take into account the pace of city bureaucracy. Filed also under “challenges,” perhaps, is overseeing some less exciting matters. For instance: a possible VoIP upgrade to the city’s phone system, upgrading a derelict water billing system and [...]
Jan. 3, 2013 10:00 am
Chris Tonjes: CIO presents city IT department’s new mission at Dec. TechBreakfast [VIDEO]
The biggest challenge for city CIO Chris Tonjes? Moving at the pace of city bureaucracy, where building consensus around new approaches and ideas has a tendency to take awhile. As Tonjes said last Thursday at Baltimore TechBreakfast, “I have to temper my expectations based on time.”
Dec. 28, 2012 9:30 am
Baltimore Tech in 2012: Technically Baltimore’s 15 takeaways from this last year
Relatively speaking, Baltimore’s early-stage technology community has been busy in 2012. Call it hype. Call it cheerleading. Call it noise. But whatever the name, it’s plain that Baltimore city’s tech ecosystem is growing at a clip previously unseen. Admittedly, there’s progress yet to be made, as Baltimore searches for its identity among other tech startup cities in the [...]
Dec. 26, 2012 8:30 am
Circulomics wins research awards worth $800K // Keimmie Booth to speak at TEDxBaltimore // Chris Tonjes at TechBreakfast [Startup Roundup]
This is the Startup Roundup. Every Wednesday morning, Technically Baltimore will put together the smaller pieces that make up our startup ecosystem. Biotechnology company Circulomics “has been awarded two Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) Phase I awards, totaling $800,000 over 2 years, to develop its Ligo-miR microRNA assay technology and PicoSep single molecule analysis instrument,” reports CityBizList. The [...]
Dec. 4, 2012 10:30 am
Challenge Box is inaugural Startup Weekend Education winner, 8 total startup teams formed [VIDEO]
A crowd of about 80 people gathered to hear the final presentations from Startup Weekend Education. “What is it that you want to do to change education?” This was the question Andrew Coy posed to participants at Baltimore’s first-ever Startup Weekend Education, who, as of late afternoon Sunday, had spent close to 54 hours on the ground [...]
Nov. 19, 2012 10:00 am
Baltimore visits Philadelphia: Geeks on a Train
More than a dozen Baltimore technologists visited Philadelphia Friday to take in two of that city’s technology clusters. See coverage of the day here from our sister site Technically Philly, which organized the day there, and partnered with GBTC and us to help rally the crowd. It was a deeper followup to Geeks on a [...]
Nov. 7, 2012 9:30 am
Chris Tonjes: city to install WiFi at all 6 historic public markets before 2013
Update 11/8/12 2:06 p.m.: While ”Believe Wireless Broadband is providing the wireless access points and Internet service to Lexington Market at no cost,” the company has “not discussed anything with the city about the other markets,” said Marian Huller, vice president of Believe, in an e-mail. “Our only contact has been with the gb.tc and Lexington [...]
Nov. 2, 2012 11:22 am
Tech Night: gb.tc’s 2012 annual celebration of tech community draws more than 400, mayor to Lexington Market [VIDEO]
The view from the Startup Arena in the second floor atrium of Lexington Market at Tech Night. Update 11/2/12 6:28 p.m.: Clarified information on Thursday’s attendance at Tech Night compared to previous years. More than 400 people from Baltimore’s tech community packed the atrium at Lexington Market for Thursday’s Tech Night, including Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake—the [...]