Paperless Council

Every local government faces the question of how best to provide council members, the local government staff, and the public with information about the agenda items for the council's next meeting. The Paperless Council examines the "paperless council," defined as a council that uses information technology (IT) to facilitate and enrich the process of preparing information for council meetings and making the information available to everyone involved.

Auteur
Sheldon S. Cohen, president of Systems Consulting Group, Inc., has advised local governments in 22 states on planning, selection, implementation, and management of information technology. He holds an MPA, has held an adjunct faculty appointment at the University of Massachusetts in Lowell, and served as an assistant town manager in the 1970s. His publications include articles for the GFOA and Microsoft, and his work has been cited in Computerworld and Software Magazine.