General Synod to go digital ?
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/article38998
- Author
- Forget, André
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2016 April
- Author
- Forget, André
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2016 April
- Volume
- 142
- Issue
- 4
- Page
- 3
- Notes
- "General Synod might get a technological boost at its July 7-12 [2016] meeting in Richmond Hill, Ont., with the introduction of tablet computers for delegates and members, said planning committee chair Dean Peter Wall. The committee will ask Council of General Synod (CoGS) during its spring meeting, to approve a proposal of doing away with putting voluminous documents in traditional three-ring binders and instead lease tablets, onto which information can be preloaded". "Wall first saw this technology in action while observing The Episcopal Church's (TEC) General Convention in Salt Lake City last summer [2015], and said he was struck by how much more efficient it was. .... (General Convention -- TEC's governing body -- has about 1,100 members. The Anglican Church of Canada's General Synod is expected to have between 250 and 280 delegated this year.)" "While the total cost of the tablets is estimated to be around $30,000 (which includes the cost of the app, back-up tablets and on-site technical services) the money that will be saved on printing, photocopying and paper will amount to around $18,000 -- meaning the tablets will cost around $12,000 more than is usually allocated for distribution of information materials, said Wall".
- Subjects
- Anglican Church of Canada. General Synod (41st : 2016 : Richmond Hill, Ont.) - Rules and practice
- Anglican Church of Canada. General Synod (41st : 2016 : Richmond Hill, Ont.) - Cost
- Computers - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Computers and the church - Anglican Church of Canada
- Computers - Religious aspects - Episcopal Church
- Technology - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Wall, Peter A. (Peter Allan), 1951-