TECHNICAL PANEL
Nebraska Information Technology Commission
Tuesday, January 11, 2000, 9:00 a.m.
Varner Hall, 3835 Holdrege Street, Lincoln, Nebraska
MINUTES
CALL TO ORDER, ROLL CALL AND NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING:
Mr. Weir called the meeting to order at 9:05 a.m. Roll call. All members were present.
PUBLIC COMMENT:
There was no public comment.
APPROVAL OF DECEMBER 14TH MINUTES:
Corrections to the minutes included correcting the names of Doug Silverman to Don Silverman and Gardner Group to Gartner Group. Mr. Schafer moved to approve the minutes as corrected. Mr. Winkle seconded the motion. Roll call vote: Decker-Yes, Beach-Yes, Schafer-Yes, Weir-Yes, Winkle-Yes. Motion carried.
PROJECT UPDATES
TINA (Division of Communications, State of Nebraska):
The first draft of the Community of Interest Needs Analysis has been posted to the web site. Interested parties have been informed that the needs assessment is available. The Division of Communications has received both negative and positive feedback. There are some inaccuracies in the report. The Nebraska Telephone Association is interested in participating in the study and has organized a group to develop recommendations. The next draft of the needs assessment report will have the inaccuracies corrected. The database will include information on circuits available in the State of Nebraska. Eventually, data will contain other information. Mr. Winkle reported that the Community Council was enthusiastic about the report. Members were requested to get comments back to Ms. Decker. The panel decided to bring providers together late February for an update on statewide plan. A later meeting will be planned to discuss the TINA study.
Security Architecture (Information Management Services, State of Nebraska):
Mr. Schafer reported that the working group is moving forward with this issue. There is a meeting scheduled for Wednesday, January 12, 9:00 a.m. The consultant working with the group on LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) will be presenting recommendations.
STATEWIDE TECHNOLOGY PLAN
Strategic direction for Part 3 Technical Infrastructure: Mr. Weir distributed a revised document for Part 3 of the statewide plan which included detailed information and a glossary of terms. After discussion of the format and content of the document, the Technical Panel decided to submit the basic framework of the document to the NITC for the January 19th working meeting (narrative describing the Purpose, Goals, General Principles, and Components to be addressed. After adoption of the statewide plan, the Technical Panel will utilize experts to assist in the development of Part 3. It was recommended to include the glossary in the NITC clearinghouse. Mr. Becker and Mr. Weir will work together to develop document for the NITC January 19th meeting.
Review action items proposed by other councils: Members were given a document listing action items of the three councils-Community, Education, and Government. Mr. Winkle reported this was also shared with the Lieutenant Governor. After meeting with the Lieutenant Governor, staff decided to re-organize the list into three themes: Economic Development, I.T. Efficiency and Management, and E-government. Mr. Winkle and staff will review the current list to 1) take out action items already completed, 2) list action items recommended for referral for further technical development, and 3) organize the remaining action items 40-45 into the theme categories.
Develop Action Items for technical infrastructure (Part 5.C)*: Distributed three action items for members review. The following three action items were presented to the Technical Panel for review and recommendations.
Prepare policies and guidelines for the security architecture for state government. Mr. Schafer informed the panel that IMServices has been working with a consultant to assist with the process. The panel recommended one more task - "Develop a working group to further develop policies and guidelines for the security architecture". Mr. Schafer will make appropriate changes on the document.
Prepare an enterprise architecture framework to guide the state's investments in IT. The panel recommended the following changes. Change the wording of "document best practices" to "identify best practices". Under III. Goal and Objectives list in order of importance: 1) Network Architecture, 2) Security Architecture, 3) Electronic Commerce Architecture, 4) Application Architecture, 5) Collaboration and Workflow Architecture (Groupware), 6) Data and Information Architecture, 7) Hardware Platform Architecture, 8) Systems Management Architecture. Mr. Becker will make the changes on the document.
Aggregation: Mr. Winke drafted broad principles. Mr. Winkle will get Ms. Decker an electronic copy to revise for the NITC working session on January 19th.
OTHER BUSINESS
Mr. Schafer alerted members that at the next meeting the Technical Panel will be reviewing grant applications submitted to the State Records Board. Community Technology Fund applications due February 18th and the Government Technology Collaboration Fund grant guidelines will soon be approved with a possible deadline of March 15th.
Mr. Weir reported that Secretary of State Scott Moore is interested in a partnership with UNL and their consultant to collaborate digital library development.
Ms. Decker reported that the FCC ruled the Minnesota Right-of-Way illegal.
The Technical Panel members were invited to attend the NITC January 25th meeting, 1-5 p.m. at the Nebraska Center for Continuing Education-Omaha Room, 33rd & Holdrege, Lincoln, Nebraska.
NEXT MEETING DATE AND TIME:
The next meeting of the Technical Panel will be on February 8, 2000, 9:00 a.m. at Varner Hall, 3835 Holdrege Street.
Mr. Weir adjourned the meeting at 11:20 a.m.
Minutes were taken by Lori Lopez Urdiales, Administrative Assistant, Office of the CIO/NITC and reviewed by Steve Schafer, Chief Information Officer and Rick Becker, Government Information Technology Manager, Office of the CIO/NITC.
Meeting Minutes