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Intergovernmental Relations Team

Local State Integration
Subteam

Standards
  • What are the cooperative standards that should be established for technologies such as GIS, Internet, Multimedia Kiosks, Integrated Voice Response, Fax, etc. and how can standards be established?
    • Opportunities
  • What are the ooportunities for enabling government entities to inter-operate, that can be capitalized upon right away?
    • Proactive Approach
  • How can we insure that local and state integration opportunities are considered at the front end of projects?
    • Classification
  • How can we drive common staffing classifications among local and state telecommunications and network staff?
    • Training
  • How can we leverage the investment in training made within the state to provide all communities with training opportunities?
    • Aggregate Demand
  • By what mechanism can we aggregate public service demand statewide to take advantage of economies of scale and to reduce costs?
    • Reference
  • A list of other online reference resources

    • Standards

    Opportunities

    Proactive Approach

    Classification

    Training

    Aggregate Demand

    Reference

    For the City of Anaheim, the road to the information superhighway is being paved by fiber-optic cable. Once completed, this path will not only open a wealth of telecommunications opportunities for residents and the City, but also will provide an important new tool for Anaheim's business retention and attraction efforts.

    California Electronic Government Information - Hypertext links & resource descriptions for over 230 California state, regional & municipal databases available over the Internet or through dial-up bulletin board systems. Entries grouped by source & listed by title. Links to other compilations & search engines. Entire file available for downloading.

    Local Governments Not Ready For The Information Superhighway - In April 1994, the International City/County Management Association (ICMA), the National League of Cities (NLC), the National Association of Counties (NACo) and Public Technology Inc. (PTI), joined together to launch a national awareness campaign on the local information infrastructure. The goal of the awareness campaign - which was funded by PTI - was to educate local government leaders about the impact of telecommunication issues in their communities. The campaign was also designed to help leaders become more involved in the NII on their own and through the leadership of the organizations involved.

    A Compendium of Innovative Technology Projects Designed to Improve Government Service Delivery and Reduce Costs.

    The city of Austin is re-working its telecommunications systems with an eye to the future and new possibilities.

    Welcome to NCINFO, server for the Institute of Government at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This site provides access to the resources of the Institute of Government, the largest and most diversified of the university-based governmental training and research organizations in the United States. NCINFO was developed in partnership with the North Carolina Association of County Commissioners and the North Carolina League of Municipalities. From here, you can connect to many local, state, and federal government information resources.

    The USA CityLink Project is the most comprehensive United States city and state listing on the web, as well as one of the most visited sites on the Internet today. It provides users with a starting point when accessing information about US states and cities. This project is marketed outside of the United States, as well as domestically through national media sources. Both traditional and internet marketing methods are used to attract users to this site. This Project attracts users wanting to travel or relocate to a United States State or City. This Project has captured the attention of the information-seeking internet community and maintains very prominent links in major directories.

    The Virginia Institute of Government grew out of a broad-based coalition of individuals and associations who saw the need for a new organization that would expand the training, technical assistance, and information resources available to Virginia local governments.

    The Municipal Research & Services Center (MRSC) is a non-profit organization created in 1969 to provide Washington municipalities with a technical, consultative, research, publication, and training program that promotes excellence in local government. It continues a program established in 1934 under the Bureau of Governmental Research and Services (BGRS) at the University of Washington. The program, now in its 62nd year, serves all of Washington's 275 cities and towns.

    The International GovNews Project (GovNews), the result of a collaborative effort in cyberspace between public and private sector volunteers, has completed the groundwork for the wide, cost effective electronic dissemination and discussion of large amounts of public government information through its creation of a special government "category" on the Internet's Usenet news system. The Project seeks to stimulate electronic access to public government information and electronic "open democracy" by improving information dissemination, communication, coordination and collaboration by and between world governments and between world governments and their constituencies. GovNews (or gov.*) is a new global framework for the efficient electronic exchange and communication of public information at all levels of government around the world via the Internet. Such information is organized into categories within a "hierarchy" and is distributed widely around the world on the Internet's Usenet or NetNews (NNTP) service platform.

    The Federal Geographic Data Committee - The FGDC was established through the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular A-16 and charged with the responsibility to coordinate various surveying, mapping, and spatial data activities of federal agencies to meet the needs of the Nation. Major objectives of Circular A-16 are to avoid duplication and minimize costs in mapping and spatial data activities, which involves establishing standards and providing wider access to geospatial data. The FGDC also has been charged with coordinating geospatial data related activities with other levels of government and with public, private, and academic sectors.

    Georgia GIS Data Clearinghouse - The Georgia GIS Data Clearinghouse was established in May 1996 by the "Information Technology Policy Council" of Georgia and implemented by the University System of Georgia, with funding provided by the State of Georgia. The purpose of the Clearinghouse is to collect, document, format, and publish GIS information collected by multiple agencies of Georgia state government. The GIS Advisory Committee of the Georgia Information Technology Policy Council helps determine state policies related to the Clearinghouse, and all statewide GIS activities.

    Technology Research Group - The Technology Research Group (TRG) studies the evolution and use of High Performance Computer Communications and information technologies, and develops recommendations for effective outreach strategies. The successful outreach efforts of the Education & Outreach Division of NCSA have created "living laboratories" or natural settings for studying models of technology transfer, and the impact of new technologies in the real world. The Technology Research Group continues outreach activities through activities such as the internationally recognized Champaign County Network (CCNet) and U.S. Tech Corps. Funded largely by corporate sponsors, our ongoing research program identifies implications of new information and communication technologies, including Internet, for the future of individuals, organizations and businesses.

    The collaborators along with 70 other organizations are currently participating the Champaign County Network (CCNet) effort to establish an infrastructure providing access to community-relevant data from local, regional, state and national data resources. This project will provide a concrete demonstration of a means of creating a local clearinghouse as a node of the National Geospatial Data Clearinghouse. This testbed, and resulting training materials, will be available to other communities nationwide that wish to evaluate the methods, procedures and infrastructure established as part of this project.

    In 1994, CCNet was officially incorporated as a not-for-profit subsidiary corporation of the Champaign County Chamber of Commerce. Its primary goal is to make Champaign County a prototype fully-integrated community on the InformationSuperhighway, with a variety of connectivity solutions fulfilling the information and communcation needs of different types of businesses, organizations and individuals. The mission of CCNet is to create a supportive environment for Champaign County to cooperatively develop applications which utilize advanced communications technologies. This environment supports life-long learning, expanded opportunities for economic competitiveness, and universal interactive access to public and private sector based information services in order to provide a model for other communities. CCNet Task Forces: Business, Education, Health Care, Agribusiness, Community & Government, Libraries, Geographic Information Networks, Technology, Marketing, Training.

    One of the goals of CCNet is to create a testbed environment with a variety of different networking solutions. The connection solutions range in bandwidth and medium and are each deployed based on specific applications needs. To date, three different emerging technologies have been deployed to connect CCNet sites to the Internet. Remote Link Adapters (RLA's) from Hybrid Technologies, Inc. , allow users at a site to receive data from the Internet at high speeds (approximately 2.5 Mbps) and Integrated Switching Digital Network (ISDN) connections allow users at a site to access and provide information on the Internet at medium speeds (approximately 128Kbps). SLIP or PPP access is being used over plain old telephone service (POTS) by individuals in the community just beginning to explore the Internet. Other connection options are being tested. CCNet was designed to be a sustainable network, with cost recovery for hardware and services. CCNet sites cover most of the cost of the hardware at their individual site, and the connection to the Internet as well as some of the infrastructure costs. However, a number of vendors have partnered with CCNet and donated their products and services to the CCNet project to help build a sustainable information infrastructure in Champaign County.