{"58718":{"#nid":"58718","#data":{"type":"event","title":"\\\u0022Outsourcing Local Government Services: Does It Work?\\\u0022","body":[{"value":"document.write(ReturnSomething());\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Center for Advanced Communications Policy and the School of Public Policy are hosting an ICT Roundtable event on the subject of \u0022Outsourcing Local Government Services: Does It Work?\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESpeaker: Dr. James White, Center for Advanced Communications Policy\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBackground: Following its establishment at the end of 2005, the city of Sandy Springs, Georgia, has quickly come to typify the concept of comprehensive municipal service outsourcing. In an attempt to measure both the economic and social efficacy of the concept, an original comparison between five \u201ccontract\u201d cities and five \u201ctraditional\u201d municipalities was completed in May, 2009, offering a view of the relative merits and demerits of outsourcing. This talk will outline the major findings of the research.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"The Center for Advanced Communications Policy(CACP)and the School of Public Policy are hosting an ICT Roundtable event on the subject of \u0022Outsourcing Local Government Services: Does It Work?\u0022\n\nBackground: Following its establishment at the end of 2005","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"CACP and the School of Public Policy are hosting and ICT Roundtable."}],"uid":"27167","created_gmt":"2010-06-21 16:34:32","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:51:45","author":"Rebecca Keane","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2009-11-09T11:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2009-11-09T12:30:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2009-11-09T12:30:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2009-11-09 16:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2009-11-09 17:30:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2009-11-09 17:30:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.cacp.gatech.edu\/","title":"CACP"}],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"3632","name":"CACP"},{"id":"8670","name":"ICT Roundtable"},{"id":"167078","name":"School of Public Policy"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003ECarol Silvers\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIvan Allan College of Liberal Arts\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=cs70\u0022\u003EContact Carol Silvers\u003C\/a\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}