Democratizing Collaborations Equity and Access Dr. Gil Gonzales Ph.D NSF National Research Platform Workshop Montana State University Bozeman, Montana August 8, 2017
Background and Experience Served as CIO in complex and highly distributed organizations (since 1986) Focused on Regional Connectivity to Reduce Digital Divide Delivered Services to Drive Organizational Competition Arizona, California, New Mexico
New Mexico Case Study Higher Education Leadership in Support of Planning and Execution Highly Distributed and Decentralized IHEs Coordinated Program and Engineering Support Driving NM IHEs to a Research Orientation New Collaborations, Success in the Periphery
Broadband Public Schools - 2016 Internet Costs Down: School 13% decrease from $4.8M to $4.2M More Capacity Purchased: The 89 Districts in NM purchased ~30G to ~50G Per/MB Cost Down: Based on E-rate data, the average cost / meg (per month) in the state was lowered from ~$14 to ~$7 Highest Cost Per/MB: $181
New Mexico Higher Education Research University of New Mexico (Albuquerque) New Mexico State University (Las Cruces) New Mexico Tech (Socorro)
New Mexico Higher Education Comprehensive Western New Mexico Univ (Silver City) Eastern New Mexico Univ (Portales) Northern New Mexico Univ (Espanola) Highlands New Mexico Univ (Las Vegas)
New Mexico Higher Education Community Colleges Central New Mexico Community College (Albuquerque) Clovis Community College (Clovis) Mesalands Community College (Tucumcari) New Mexico Junior College (Hobbs) San Juan College (Farmington) Santa Fe Community College (Santa Fe) Luna Community College (Las Vegas)
NMSeed New Mexico Science & Economic Development Network
NM Seed - UNM, NMSU, and NMT Established Collaboration to Expand STEM/Broadband CIOs Met with Comprehensive Presidents (2014) Collaboratively Comitted Resources Shared Engineering Expertise Shared Grant Writing Expertise Assigned Responsibility to Support Schools Committed to NSF - Each School, Different Needs Needs of the Region Needed to be Defined and Supported
NSF Statewide Planning NSF Regional Planning Award #1541340 Networking and Economic Development Community Broadband (2015-2016) Municipal Government Public Health K-12 Education Higher Education State Information Technologies Broadband Providers
Statewide CC*DNI Comprehensive CC*DNI Submissions Community College CC*DNI Align State Broadband Resources to Support Research Needs Initial Planning to Build Statewide Data Sharing (Science DMZs, DTNs, Security, and Authorization - InCommon)
Statewide CC*DNI Regional Collaborations – Western Regional Network and PacificWave Expand CC*DNI “Thinking” with Tribal Colleges Network Connectivity Planning and Support
Thanks and Questions Dr. Norma Grijalva (NMSU) Mr. Joe Franklin (NMT) Dr. Gil Gonzales gonzales.gil@outlook.com