Communication

Speaker: Erv Blythe, Vice President for Information Technology, Virginia Tech

On April 16, 2007 a student at Virginia Tech shot and killed 32 faculty and students before killing himself in an academic building on campus. 25 others were wounded. The university is still dealing with the aftermath, and expects it to be an ongoing concern for the foreseeable future. This EDUCAUSE Live! session will consist of encapsulated summaries of the information-technology-related lessons learned, presented by the Vice President for Information Technology, Erv Blythe. Among them are the impact on the university's communication system; the notification issue; radio communications interoperability; the sheer logistics of accommodating the communications infrastructure and control center needs for a variety of emergency responders and law enforcement; identity management and privacy; and data preservation and computer forensics. Overriding all of these issues is the question of federal, state and local policies and ways in which policy issues were encountered, confronted, and managed.

Non-EDUCAUSE resources:

• The internal review report for the Communications Infrastructure
• Governor Kaine's Review Panel final report

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