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Honoring the Life and Legacy of Carole I. Smith and Recognizing February 14th - 20th as the 11th Annual Black Family Technology Awareness Week.
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WHEREAS, On Monday, January 4th, 2010, Carole I. Smith, Founder and Executive Director of the Mayor's Commission on Technology ("MCOT") departed this life as a true public servant dedicated to empowering the citizens of Philadelphia through technology; and
WHEREAS, In 1996, Ms. Smith founded MCOT and has received various awards for focusing the City of Philadelphia on the importance of technology in shaping the City's 21st century economy; and
WHEREAS, Ms. Smith has served three Mayors as Executive Director of MCOT, was the President and CEO of the Workforce 2000 Initiative, was a columnist for The Neighborhood Leader, a community newspaper, hosted a weekly radio program, Carole's Corner on Technology, on 900 AM WURD, and produced and hosted MCOT's weekly webcast/cable TV program, "Philadelphia's Got IT" on Comcast, the City's and School District's Cable Channels, and MCOT's website; and
WHEREAS, In 2006, Carole was selected by the Pennsylvania Commission for Women's inaugural Role Model Book, "Voices" and was inducted into the 3E Institute's Educator 500 Program at West Chester University as an entrepreneurial educator and she was inducted into Temple University's League for Entrepreneurial Women Hall of Fame in 2004 and in 2002 appointed a Fellow at Temple University's Fox School of Business and serves as an Adjunct Professor at Lincoln University; and
WHEREAS, With a M.S. in Public Administration, Ms. Smith was educated at Yale University, Occidental College, and Temple University and she was the President of the Greater Philadelphia Chapter of the National Forum for Black Public Administrators and a member of the Board of Directors of the National Urban Fellows, Inc, Community College of Philadelphia, American Women's Heritage ...
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