Episode 31

What is up with technology in Vermont?

July 30, 2021: We joke on this show about the mishaps and blow-ups with the internet and IT systems in this state. But, as the debacle with the Vermont Department of Labor's unemployment portal during COVID demonstrated, bad IT has consequences. Scott Woodward, a technology consultant, weighs in on IT in the Green Mountains.

Vermont Agency of Digital Services: https://digitalservices.vermont.gov

Scott Woodward: https://www.forestandwater.com

Theme music by Red Heart the Ticker: http://rhtt.net

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Olga Peters

Producer and host Olga is a journalist by day and a screenwriter by night. On the Montpelier Happy Hour she combines a newshound's doggedness with a fiction writer's sense of "what if...".
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Emilie Kornheiser

Regular contributor Emilie Kornheiser represents Windham District 2-1 in the Vermont House of Representatives (that’s Brattleboro.) She always appreciates an opportunity to unpack the stories that drive us and hopes her gravestone will read “she asked good questions.” You can find more about her and her work in the legislature at emiliekornheiser.org.