partners
Primary
Sponsor
School
of Government
The School of Government's mission is to improve
the lives of North Carolinians by engaging in
practical scholarship that helps public officials and citizens understand and strengthen state
and local government. The School is the largest
university-based local government training,
consulting and research organization in the
US, sponsoring up to 200 classes, seminars,
schools and specialized conferences for more
than 12,000 public officials each year.
The success of the School is due to its unique
relationship with North Carolina's more than
700 county and municipal governments. Elected
officials, city and county managers, finance
directors, purchasing agents, information services
directors, attorneys, budget directors, school
officials and a vast array of professional managers
and employees have regular contact with faculty
and staff of the School. This work is supported
by the Internet; currently, the School manages
30 listservs and discussion boards that support
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The University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has
been built by the people of the State and has existed
for two centuries as the nation's first state university.
Through its excellent undergraduate programs, it has
provided higher education to ten generations of students,
many of whom have become leaders of the state and
the nation. Since the nineteenth century, it has offered
distinguished graduate and professional programs.
The University is a research university. Fundamental
to this designation is a faculty actively involved
in research, scholarship, and creative work, whose
teaching is transformed by discovery and whose service
is informed by current knowledge.
The mission of the University is to serve all the
people of the State, and indeed the nation, as a center
for scholarship and creative endeavor. The University
exists to teach students at all levels in an environment
of research, free inquiry, and personal responsibility;
to the body of knowledge; to improve the condition
of human life through service and publication; and
to enrich our culture.
North Carolina Association
of County Commissioners
North Carolina's 100 counties are vibrant and essential
partners with state government in providing services
to the state's more than seven million citizens. As
the form of government closest to the people, counties
offer unique a perspective that makes them critical
players in decisions affecting their citizens. The
North Carolina Association of County Commissioners
serves as the counties' advocate before the executive,
legislative and judicial branches of state government.
All of the 100 county boards of commissioners are
eligible for membership of the Association since the
early 1900's. Collectively through the Association,
they strive to preserve and protect the authority
and ability of county governments to deliver the services
for which they are responsible. The Association employs
a staff of 20 professionals to run the day-to-day
operations and to provide expertise in the areas of
lobbying, fiscal and legal research, communications,
intergovernmental relations, information technology,
field visits and insurance.
North Carolina League
of Municipalities
Since its formation in 1908, the North Carolina League
of Municipalities has cities, towns and villages is
a vigorous voice in the General Assembly, where League
lobbyists champion municipal interests and authority.
It's also an extension of every member municipality's
staff-ready and willing to provide advice and assistance
on almost any municipal matter.
The League is cities and towns, mayors and governing
boards, and municipal staffs working together to provide
the best municipal government possible to the citizens
of North Carolina. The Board of Directors sets policies,
and the NCLM staff offers a broad array of services
tailored to municipal needs. Mayors, managers, clerks,
council members, finance directors and others contact
League headquarters when they need statistics, legal
advice, updates on employment practices, legislative
briefings and surveys. The League also connects member
cities and towns to local government neighbors in
North Carolina and throughout the country.
North
Carolina Local Government Information Systems Association
NCLGISA is an association of North Carolina local
government data processing officials. The North Carolina
Local Government Information Systems Association is
an organization established to improve the efforts
of local governments in North Carolina to plan, design,
program, implement, and operate information systems.
Its purpose is to assist its members in sharing experiences
and ideas and in undertaking cooperative efforts intended
to achieve the association's goal of improving the
effectiveness of local government information systems.
The association is a state chapter of Government Management
Information Sciences (GMIS).
North Carolina
Office of Information Technology Services
The Office of Information Technology Services (ITS)
is a partner for IT solutions for North Carolina.
ITS is committed to working with our agency customers
to develop an efficient, effective, customer-centric
e-state. ITS can help business and government:
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Promote the delivery of more effective and efficient
services
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Provide increased accountability to citizens
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Offer easier access to useful information
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Enable enhanced participation in the democratic
process
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Present new opportunities to encourage economic
development
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Improve society through telemedicine and distance
learning
Rural Internet Access
Authority
The North Carolina General Assembly in its 2000 session
approved the creation of the Rural Internet Access
Authority to oversee efforts to provide rural areas
with high-speed broadband Internet access.
The authority's main goals are ambitious: to provide
local dial-up Internet access from every telephone
exchange in North Carolina within one year; and to
provide high-speed Internet access at competitive
prices (at least 128K for residential customers and
at least 256K for business customers) to all North
Carolinians within three years.
The authority is established within the state Department
of Commerce, with the Rural Center providing administrative
and professional staff support for the authority.
The authority is governed by a 21-member commission,
which includes members of state government, business
and education leaders, members of the Microelectronics
Center of North Carolina (MCNC) and representatives
from the state's telecommunications companies, including
Internet service providers, rural telephone cooperatives,
local telephone exchange and independent telephone
companies, commercial wireless.
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