Like technology directors in other districts, Mr. Newcombe is trying to get more out of what he has by relying on networked computers.

After 12 years as a technology director in independent schools in New York, I can say unequivocally that the opposite is true.

It never dawned on me," said Don Beverly, the district's technology director, "and that's the gut truth.

The technology director of another company added: "There are dozens of companies in this field.

But the position of technology director, who will lead the service onto the Internet, has not yet been filled.

The office of the schools district's technology director, currently Richard Alves, is here too.

"As more software became available in schools, we determined the need for a strong policy," said the technology director for the city school system, Irwin Kaufman.

His father works in Brooklyn as the technology director of the Board of Education.

Jim Merrick, the technology director at Nintendo, said the individual machine's specifications "mean nothing to the end user."

She was previously the managing editor, and then the technology director and technology commissioning editor for openDemocracy.net.