1. Democratizing Collaborations Equity and Access
Dr. Gil Gonzales Ph.D
NSF National Research Platform Workshop
Montana State University
Bozeman, Montana
August 8, 2017

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

6. New Mexico Higher Education
Research
University of New Mexico (Albuquerque)
New Mexico State University (Las Cruces)
New Mexico Tech (Socorro)

7. 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)

8. 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)

9. NMSeed New Mexico Science & Economic Development Network

10. 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

11. NSF Statewide Planning
NSF Regional Planning Award #  
Networking and Economic Development Community Broadband ( )
Municipal Government
Public Health
K-12 Education
Higher Education
State Information Technologies
Broadband Providers

12. 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)

13. Statewide CC*DNI
Regional Collaborations – Western Regional Network and PacificWave Expand CC*DNI “Thinking” with Tribal Colleges Network Connectivity Planning and Support

14. Thanks and Questions
Dr. Norma Grijalva (NMSU) Mr. Joe Franklin (NMT) Dr. Gil Gonzales