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WINOG ConferencePark City, UT
August 17, 2005
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Wireless Washtenaw

• Washtenaw County
• Why Wireless
• Partners
• Benefits
• Project Management
• Structure
• Committees
• Roles and responsibilities
• Process
• Detail RFI partnership meetings
• Parameters
• Timelines

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Washtenaw County Overview

• County seat Ann Arbor, MI
• Population of 340,000 (6th largest county in
  MI)
• 2 major universities
• Legislative body consists of 11 Commissioners
• Services Provided
• Public Safety Justice
• Planning Environment
• Health
• Children
• Rev. Records
• Housing Homelessness
• Approx. 200,000,000 County wide budget
• 1,360 positions County

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The Vision
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Why Wireless??

• LinkMI Report January 2004
• County has urban and rural areas
• No plans to cover entire county
• Leadership Team Developed June 2004
• Discovery Team Organized September 2004
• 11 organizations involved
• Exploration Teams
• Technology Team
• Communication Team
• Funding Model Team
• Goal Best practices

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Collaborators
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Wireless Washtenaw Objectives
To provide citizens and visitors a pleasant,
seamless wireless Internet experience.
To provide a blend of free and for fee
services.
Wireless high speed internet access for
Washtenaw County equally available in urban,
suburban and rural settings in 2007.
To serve as a model for other communities.
To be a model of cooperation and collaboration
between government, business and education

To support economic development and improve the
quality of life in Washtenaw County.
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Community Benefits

• Economic Development ability to attract and
  retain businesses
• Enables enhanced educational opportunities for
  students
• Enhances the quality of life within local
  communities
• Facilitates rapid expansion of the Countys
  growing mobile workforce
• Reduces the cost and improves the reliability of
  mobile computing

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Community Benefits

• Displays significant community and
  intergovernmental collaboration
• Reduces the digital divide
• Improves the provision of services for both
  public and private organizations
• Provides for enhanced public safety services
• Reinforces our reputation as state, national and
  international leaders

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Why Partner with Washtenaw?

• Washtenaw is a leader in innovation
• Development of SPARK
• Enhances our reputation as a high-tech,
  innovative community
• Establishing a network infrastructure
• Wireless Washtenaw 2007
• Wireless access will be available throughout the
  county
• Collaboration is Key
• Collaboration makes possible significant
  community impact
• Government, education and business
• Private Partnership is Critical

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Wireless Parameters

• County or Stakeholders will not own or operate
• Washtenaw County will facilitate collaboration
  and develop streamlined process
• Leverage and inventory community assets to
  provide wireless service
• Private sector partners are the experts
• Private and Public goals must be met to provide a
  win-win scenario

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Interim Project Governance Structure
Washtenaw County Board of Commissioners Project
Sponsor
Advisory Committee Including Representation
from Initial Collaborators and Key Stakeholders
Business Advisors/Consultants
Private Sector Partners
Steering Committee Including Representatives
from the Leadership Team
Business Plan Tom Crawford - Chair Tim Robinson -
Vice Chair 8-10 members
Information Technology Andrew Palms -
Chair William Shell - Vice Chair 8-10 members
Communications/ Marketing Rich Sheridan - Chair
Ken Unterbrink - Vice Chair 8-10 members
Governance David Behen Chair Tony Vanderworp -
Vice Chair 8-10 members
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Committees and Teams

• Advisory Committee
• Serves as project Board of Directors
• Add some members HERE
• Steering Committee
• Serves as project Leadership Committee
• Business Advisors / Consultants
• Provides objective advice to project leadership
• Vendors
• Provides the technical resources to execute the
  project

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Workgroups

• Governance Workgroup
• Development of governance model for ongoing
  support and operation
• Business Plan Workgroup
• Determine success criteria for County wide
  adoption
• Information Technology Workgroup
• Provides leadership and direction on technology
  issues
• Communications Workgroup
• Provides ongoing communication to key
  collaborators and stakeholders throughout the
  entire project
• ALL HAVE CHARTERS

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Process
Pilot-Testing
IT Workgroup Design
Business Plan Governance Workgro
ups
Vision/Strategy
Communications Workgroup
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Timelines and Actions

• Executive Stakeholders Meeting March 28, 2005
• Public sector representatives and partners
• Local governments, universities, K-12, non
  profits, etc
• Private Sector Forum June 7, 2005
• 65 private sector companies attended
• RFI released
• RFI due July 7, 2005
• 18 respondents
• Met w/all respondents to discuss RFI
• Request for Proposal October 2005
• Selection of Partners December 2005
• Pilots Early 2006

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Actions???? How do you discuss

• Master Participation Agreement
• Meetings with all local units
• Data collection
• 2,000 surveys mailed
• On-line survey
• Large community events

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Contact Information

• Contacts David Behen
• Director of Information Technology
• Washtenaw County
• 734-222-6512
• Project Managers
• James McFarlane
• Washtenaw County IT
• 734-222-6587
• Uma Harithsa
• Washtenaw County IT
• 734-222-3578
• http//wireless.ewashtenaw.org

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