RINETMuni

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RINET-Muni

• Cities and Towns Collaborating Online!
• Howard Boksenbaum, DoIT
• RINET annual June 10, 2005

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RINET-Muni

• The States Problem (opportunity)
• HEALTH needed a Health Alert Network that could
  communicate with municipal officials
• EMA needed to communicate with local emergency
  management officials

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RINET-Muni

• RINETs Problem (opportunity)
• Municipalities wanted to use RINET for non-K12
  business

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RINET-Muni

• The Solution (carpe diem)
• RINET-Muni
• (of course)

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RINET-Muni

• Another problem! (opportunity!)
• Secretary of State needed to connect municipal
  Boards of Canvassers for a Central Voter Registry
  System

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RINET-Muni

• The Solution (carpe diem)
• More RINET-Muni
• (of course)

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Sponsoring State Agencies

• Department of Administration/OLIS
• Department of Health
• Emergency Management Agency
• Secretary of State
• Network Vendor
• RI Network for Educational Technology (RINET)
  10-year school network, etc.

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RINET-Muni

• A high-quality, private, integrated network
  linking municipalities for computer-based
  communications (routine/emergency) and electronic
  government services
• Connects municipalities with state agencies,
  federal government, schools and other public
  organizations through state-level linkages and
  Internet

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RINET-Muni Principles

• Base emergency communications on systems we use
  every day
• Multi-technology communications systems
• Computer, phone, fax, pager, radio, etc.
• Private system (security, reliability)
• State-agency provided funding for 4 years
  (initially)
• 1,320,000

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RINET-Muni Specifications

• Minimum 384K download/upload
• T-1 capability (municipal option)
• High-speed router
• Connectivity to the
• town hall basement wall
• Services include filters, spam control domain
  names,etc.

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Agency Objectives

• DOA/OLIS
• Secretary of State
• EMA
• HEALTH (see next slide)

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DOA Objectives

• Standards-based network infrastructure
  government-wide throughout RI with maximum
• Availability/recoverability
• Robustness
• Consistency /interoperability
• Flexibility

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SoS Objectives

• Network support for CVRS as a critical
  application
• Effective communication with Municipalities
• Network support for future mandates i.e.,
  posting meeting
• announcements/minutes

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EMA Objectives

• Ensure effective communications among emergency
  management and other officials
• Facilitate future training in emergency response

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HEALTH Objectives

• Ensure effective communications among public
  health and other officials
• Continuous, high-speed connectivity (CDC)
• Email, Internet, alerts, background info
• Municipalities (CEO, police, fire/rescue),
  schools
• Hospitals, labs
• E-Government
• Vital records, licensing (food), other

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RIMUG

• Making Agency Objectives a reality
• Generating new collaboratives
• GIS
• Tax collection
• RSS
• Event calendars

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The vision (opportunity)

• Rhode Island interconnected
• 
  ?

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Interconnected RI - Data Networks
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RINET-Muni

• Cities and Towns Collaborating Online!