New from the Strategic Planning Committee...
December 12, 2002: The Committee developed a new policy document and recommendations, Connecting Arizona: Ensuring Broadband Access for All [648k PDF], adopted by the ATIC Board and presented at the Governor's Technology Summit. Exciting things are in the works! Contact the Committee Co-Chairs to get involved.
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Strategic Planning Committee Purpose:
The State Strategic plan will provide the vision, framework and
strategies
for the development of a statewide telecommunications infrastructure to support business, education, economic,
and community development throughout
the state of Arizona.
Committee Co-Chairs
Kurt Jonckheer, President, Sequoyah International Restructuring,
Phone: 480-346-1286, E-mail: k.jonckheer@sequoyah.be
Kevin McNeill, Computer Engineering Research Lab (CERL), University of Arizona, Phone: 520.626.6930, E-mail: kevin@ece.arizona.edu
Steve Peters, Executive Director, Community Information &
Telecommunications Alliance (CITA), Phone: 520-321-1309, E-mail:
stevepeters@theriver.com
New participants are welcome. To get on the distribution list please contact either of the Committee Co-Chairs, Kurt Jonckheer or Steve Peters as above.
Committee Goals
- Insure availability of affordable, high quality, high-speed telecommunications services readily available throughout the state of Arizona. Remove barriers and develop market-driven strategies to encourage private-sector expansion of telecommunications infrastructure. Where no market-driven solution can be found, identify ways in which communities and the state can "fill-in" the gaps.
- Define voice, video and data applications that ride over the infrastructure that will link the Arizona community and support education, economic and community development.
- Define strategies to Bridge The Digital Divide.
- Assist local communities in development and implementation of technology infrastructure strategies and initiatives.
Committee Guidelines
- The strategic plan should focus on the needs and the desired services of the end-user within the State of Arizona, not just on the type of technology deployment.
- How the accessibility towards/for these services is offered is secondary as long as accessibility is present. (VSAT, Copper, Fiber,.).
- The strategic plan offers a 'framework' to be used by all the different Arizona entities in order to create a visionary plan for the global Arizona IT & Telecom infrastructure and services.
- The creation of the strategic plan should be viewed as a tool in order to invite all Arizona end-users to participate in formulating and defining their views, desires, and objectives towards services to be offered, services needed and all related IT and Telecom technology.
- Complementary to the other ATIC work committees, Cyber Security
Committee Source Documents:
For more information some of the Committee's working documents are made available below.
| Policy Briefs: |
 Connecting Arizona: Ensuring Broadband Access for All (December 6, 2002)
Adobe Acrobat file: connecting_arizona.pdf (648k PDF file)
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| Presentations: |
 ATIC's AZ Strategic Plan II Overview on February 8, 2002
Microsoft PowerPoint file: sp_020208.ppt (68k PPT file)
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Arizona Strategic Planning Resources:
An expanded set of Arizona telecommunications-related organizations can be found in the ATIC Arizona Telecom Directory (ATD).
Other Arizona Strategic Planning Resources:
An expanded set of Arizona telecommunications-related organizations can be found in the ATIC Arizona Telecom Directory (ATD).
More Resources:
See our additional national and international telecom-related strategic planning resources.
