1. A Plan of Work for 2002
February 7, 2002
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2. Who We Are Public, not-for-profit organizations
Operate statewide education networks
Serve the substantial portion of our states’ K-20 education and library institutions
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3. Our Theme: Mutual Aid Society
Given our common challenges,
We can, and ought to, organize ourselves to collaborate effectively and strategically:
Learn from each other how we run our enterprises
Help each other understand and meet our challenges
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4. December 2001 Survey: Most-Important “Enterprise” Challenge
Political (54%)
Financial (19%)
Technology (15%)
Managerial (11%)
Operational (0%)
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5. Survey: Business Practices Worth “Benchmarking”
Costing and pricing new and existing services
Deploying and supporting H.323 service
Operating a 24x7x365 NOC
Measuring change/predicting growth in demand for network services
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6. Survey: Current/Emerging Service That You Want to Learn More About
H.323 and statewide deployment
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7. Survey: Most-Likely Interstate Projects
Joint strategy-development on challenges
Joint R&D on high-priority services
Joint regional network facilities
Meetings for similar staff on common issues
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8. How StateNets Should Meet These Needs
Coordinate e-forums for professional development
Identify, document & disseminate best practices
Coordinate working groups
Conduct regular e-surveys
Coordinate group meetings & conferences
Draft position papers & advocate positions
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9. An Umbrella for StateNets
To reduce the costs (and hassle) of jointly funding our mutual efforts at professional development, improving our practices and services, and improving our political effectiveness, We need now to affiliate with a well-established, well-connected umbrella organization that our purchasing officers can live with…
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10. A Draft Plan of Work for StateNets
We should form a “mutual aid society”
governed by the senior executives
of our state education networks.
Here’s one executive’s view on
how and what to do this year…
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11. First Quarter 2002
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12. Q2, 2002
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13. Q3, 2002
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14. Q4, 2002
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