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Current 2013-2014
connecting minds. building community.
MISSION
Founded in 1999, OSHEAN is a non-profit coalition of universities, K-12 schools, libraries, hospitals, government
agencies, and other non-profit organizations dedicated to providing innovative Internet-based technology solutions
for its member institutions and the communities they serve.
OSHEAN is an active member of the local and national technology communities, regularly contributing expertise and
resources to a wide range of initiatives, from school enrichment activities to community forums on technology-related
issues in the public interest. OSHEAN regularly pursues opportunities for local, regional and national collaboration
and plays a leadership role in professional education for IT professionals and policy development in the information
technology arena.
OSHEAN is dedicated to building, through the use of innovative practices, a communications infrastructure that
will serve the needs of the region’s K-20 education institutions, state and federal government agencies, non-profit
research organizations, workforce development initiatives, and economic development efforts. OSHEAN is also
committed to creating an environment that encourages collaboration and learning through shared experiences and
resources to continually develop expertise within its member organizations.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Susan Cerrone Abely
Chair of the Board
CharterCARE Health Partners
John Smithers
Vice Chair of the Board
Johnson & Wales University
Garrett Bozylinsky
Secretary
University of Rhode Island
Michael Pickett
Treasurer
Brown University
STAFF
A LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT
John Bilotta
RISTE
David Marble
President and CEO
Jon Domen
Senior Network Architect
Carole Cotter
Lifespan
Tim Rue
Chief Technology Officer
Kevin Longo
Network Systems Administrator
Donna-Marie Frappier
Cranston Public Schools
Ralph Fasano
Director of Member Services
Brian Schafer
Network Analyst
Joan Gillespie
Ocean State Libraries
Rob Gay
Technical Programs
and Services Manager
Nimota Garcia
Communications Administrator
Paul Forte
Rhode Island College
Jack Landers
RI Department of IT
Stephen Vieira
Community College of RI
Ron Verdi
Network Operation Manager
Jody Gill
Accountant Manager
Linsey Morse
Member Services Representative
Greg Silva
Member Services Associate
Melanie Turcotte
Business Operations Officer
Six months ago, I was honored to be selected to lead OSHEAN into the next phase of
service to its membership. I have been gratified by the support and open communications
exhibited by our community and look forward to continuing the dialogue as we move
into what will be an exciting and transformational year in the development of the
OSHEAN collaborative.
This past year we saw the completion of the integration of RINET, bringing the K-12
and library communities into our membership, and very soon we will complete the
development of Beacon 2.0, a 400 mile/400 gigabit regional fiber network. These two
important milestones move OSHEAN into a new era for the collaborative. OSHEAN is
now in a position to leverage the extraordinary Beacon 2.0 asset to deliver unparalleled transport and L2/L3 services as well
as the next generation of over-the-top application layer services. The capacities and speeds inherent in Beacon 2.0 afford
IT organizations opportunities to explore the burgeoning world of Cloud services. Vast increases in wide area network
speeds have given rise to a new market of network hosted application layer services and OSHEAN is aggressively working
to offer these opportunities to or membership. These offerings have the potential to greatly reduce capital and operation
expenditures while creating opportunities for increased flexibility and resiliency.
Once again, this year’s OSHEAN Current is designed to showcase some of the many initiatives developed by our
membership. These achievements are tangible, important and represent best practice. We look forward to building
on these developments, socializing best practice and collaborating with membership to architect the new offerings
which embody the mission and value of OSHEAN.
David Marble
President & CEO
MEMBERS
OSHEAN membership includes all higher education institutions in RI, state and local government, health care organizations, five
institutions of higher education in Massachusetts and K-12 schools and public libraries throughout RI.
For a full listing of OSHEAN Members, please visit our website, www.oshean.org
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CONNECTING VIA CANVAS
Salve Regina recently launched Canvas, a new learning management system offered by Instructure, that will
facilitate more collaboration and communication among faculty and students across the university.
In planning to replace its former learning management system, a project team surveyed several people within
the university to determine the best new learning tool to use. “In our search, we explored a variety of systems
we felt would be most beneficial for Salve’s faculty and staff,” said Ty Brennan, Salve Regina University’s Chief
Information Officer. “After conducting a semester long pilot, we found that Canvas by Instructure provided
the best solution for us.”
Canvas is a web-based learning management system that offers online communication between faculty and
students on a variety of educational needs. Components of the new online system include weekly modules of
instruction materials, group discussions, multi-media sharing, assignment submission procedure and grading
functionalities, among many other features.
“For the spring 2013 semester we had 15-20 classes in pre-production mode, using the new Canvas system,”
Brennan said. “Our next challenge is to roll out the new system to the entire campus community for the
upcoming fall 2013 school year.”
Salve has tasked a group of 10 university staff members—with departmental representation from Information
Technology, the Center for Teaching and Learning and the Registrar’s Office—to lead the project, to make the
transition to Canvas seamless.
To further ensure a smooth transition to the new system, project staff members are addressing several project
deliverables. These deliverables include providing ample communication of the Canvas implementation
throughout campus via blogs, portals and newsletters, offering numerous training sessions, providing a
support plan for faculty in developing and operating their courses in Canvas, conducting quality assurance
testing of course functions, developing encryption procedures for file transfers and installing an administrative
system (Ellucian’s Colleague) interface with Canvas.
“We understand how change can be difficult for some, and we want this change to be a positive experience
for all involved, be the faculty, students and support staff,” Brennan said.
This year we say goodbye to three OSHEAN Board of Directors, who have played a major role in shaping
the OSHEAN organization:
Garry Bozylinsky of University of Rhode Island
John Smithers of Johnson & Wales University
Terri-Lynn Thayer of Brown University
We were so fortunate to have each of these leaders on our Board and they will be greatly missed!
VIDEO SERVES CAMPUS COMMUNITY
Multi-media and video services for learning spaces continue to evolve and offerings are becoming more appealing to college
campuses worldwide. New England Institute of Technology (NEIT) has been aggressive in this area, as they seek to enhance learning
environments by the integration of video services that are user-friendly, cost effective and adaptable to NEIT’s specific needs.
NEIT has launched a new service based on the Kaltura Video platform, a cloud-based online application that gives faculty and
students the ability to publish, upload, record, create screen capture movies, manage videos and organize and distribute information.
“NEIT was in search of a service that catered to the needs of its community. We think we found that in our new Kaltura Video
platform,” said NEIT Director of Online Education Larry Bouthillier.
Bouthillier spearheaded the project with colleagues Mary Preziosi, a systems engineer, and Rick Tobin, an educational technologist.
Although there are many online video applications, Kaltura’s uniqueness is what drew NEIT to populate its system with its capabilities.
“What’s great about Kaltura is that every function the system allows you to do with video is accessible by an API,” Bouthillier said.
Kaltura has used the API to build video functionality into other systems, including Sakai, Wordpress and Blackboard. Bouthillier said
Kaltura is great because as video use continues to grow on campus, everyone can manage their content in one place.
“If a faculty member wants to record a small video clip, they can easily log their credentials into Blackboard, locate the place to
upload the video, click the Kaltura link and add their media for their respective class session,” said NEIT Assistant Provost Tom
Thibodeau. Faculty members are no longer restricted to text-based
teaching assignments, while students are encouraged to explore
different learning alternatives.
The response from faculty members has been phenomenal, and
teachers have shown excitement about bringing the new service into
their classes. “Since the start of spring term, there have been 457 videos
uploaded by 43 different faculty members,” Bouthillier said.
With those early results, Kaltura is sure to become an indispensible
tool for NEIT students, faculty and staff.
The response from faculty members has been phenomenal, and
teachers have shown excitement towards bringing the new service
into their class. “Since the start of spring term, there has been 288
videos uploaded, by 34 different faculty members,” said Bouthillier.
CONNECTED/CONNECTGOV - EMERGENCY NOTIFICATION
ConnectED/ConnectGOV provides, a notification service to members which allows
organizations to quickly notify staff, students, faculty, physicians and parents by various
methods including text, email and phone in the case of an emergency at their location.
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CUMULUS CLOUD SERVICES
The Cumulus Cloud Service Suite includes a wide variety of offerings designed to leverage the advancements in
virtual computing technologies and OSHEAN’s high speed fiber backbone. OSHEAN can offer hosting for member
VMware environments as well as access to a variety of services delivered through strategic partnerships. These
services afford opportunities for significant reductions in capital and operational cost for services such as flex
computing, storage, disaster recovery, virtual desks, video and Voice over IP.
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CUMULUS VIDEO COMMONS
OSHEAN makes video streaming, video conferencing and video bridging services available to members as
needed. OSHEAN members can subscribe to the Accordent Media Management System, which allows various
module content (Evaluation & Certification, Event Scheduling, and Directory Services Integration) and a wide
array of customizations options made available to members.
INNOVATIVE TEACHING
Motivated by a career of using analytical tools, Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Eugene Quinn was quick to explore how technology could enhance his teaching
methods.
By using Stonehill’s online assessment tools, Quinn discovered an innovative way
to deliver problem sets to his classes and track their progress. An important
function of the system, Quinn explains, is that once they answer a question, the
program provides instant feedback. “Students immediately see whether they
got it right or wrong and also see an explanation of how to do the problem
to reinforce what they’ve learned,” he says. “Research shows that people learn
better when they get immediate feedback instead of handing in an assignment
and getting it back days later.”
For the assessment feedback, Quinn employs one of Stonehill’s newest technologies:
lecture capture. Using an iPad, he writes out a problem and solution while verbally
explaining the process. It is recorded as a video, which Quinn then links to the
appropriate answer online.
Quinn has uploaded about 200 videos, some only a couple of minutes in length and others that are seven to eight minutes
long, that serve as a summary of the lecture materials. Students use the lecture capture software too, as a way to present
their solutions to the class. Their videos are also permanently recorded and posted in the course module, so students can
watch each other’s work.
“It’s good practice of presentation skills for when they are out in the workforce,” Quinn says.
Quinn’s next challenge is to demonstrate the impact of technology in terms of what – and how – Stonehill students learn.
“Technology is evolving very rapidly. The vast majority of students say they prefer doing work online, but it’s not just about
what they like,” Quinn says. “It’s what works in terms of learning more effectively.”
Faculty across Stonehill use online assessment tools in similar ways, providing Quinn with a rich bank of information from a
variety of disciplines and types of courses. To date he has collected 86,000 responses and continues to develop data-mining
programs to extract information from the system. “By recording student responses – how long it takes to answer a question,
right versus wrong answers, multiple choice trends – we can see how people use the technology,” Quinn explains.
MOBILE APP SUPPORTS STUDENTS
At Johnson & Wales University, the IT department has focused its mobile
initiatives on the university’s mission, “Inspiring our students for a lifetime of
personal and professional success.” That lifetime starts when applicants first
use JWU’s mobile site to watch videos, explore programs, and visit campus. It
lasts decades after graduation, when students use the alumni mobile site to
network, and the Alumni App to find fellow graduates’ businesses in major
U.S. cities.
2012 saw JWU’s biggest mobile initiative yet: an app targeted to students’
four-year journey at JWU and designed around their specific needs. Today, using
JWU’s suite of mobile services, students can join a class discussion, check dining
hall menus or gym hours, chat with a professor, check term grades, message the
library and register for campus events – all while riding the bus to class, grabbing
lunch or checking in from their internships.
Android users gave the app a 4-star rating, and confirmed it was
user-friendly, easy to navigate, and handy. However, it’s when students
remark, “I know exactly where to go to look for something,” or, “It’s
all I need in one app,” – that’s when JWU can pause and say, “Mission
accomplished!”
Each year, colleges face exciting technology challenges. JWU
students, like any other users, expect instant access and service—
anytime, anywhere. Supporting students means creating solutions
that account for the growth of content consumption on mobile
devices and any projected growth in the mobile space. It also
means anticipating students’ needs as technology improves
daily.
He is eager to analyze the data and hopes to get a handle on how quickly students progress through course content with
the aid of new technologies. “If students do better,” he says, “that’s the bottom line.”
INTERNET ACCESS
OSHEAN’s selection and use of Internet Service Providers (ISP) is to provide members with reliable
internet access service. OSHEAN subscribes to three Internet Service Providers totaling 11Gbps of
bandwidth. Each vendor’s services allow for members to utilize redundant routes and adequate
capacity at the most cost effective price.
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OCEAN STATE LIBRARY GRANT
OSHEAN, with its partner Ocean State Libraries (OSL), completed its Federal Broadband stimulus grant
awarded by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), to assist Rhode
Island patrons with library based computer access. The $1.6 million grant, awarded as part of the
Federal Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP), provided 10 mobile computer centers as
well as 600 computers/printers for public libraries at over 70 locations throughout the state. In addition,
OSL also added new routers and switches for every public library site, a bigger router for the OSL office,
and had grant funded training provided to the public over two years.
OSHEAN BEACON 2.0 NEARING COMPLETION
KEY STATS
LOOKING FORWARD
OSHEAN is excited to announce that we are right on target with the August 2013 date for
full Beacon 2.0 project completion. This year has seen great strides toward the completion
of OSHEAN’s initial Beacon network. The fiber backbone in Rhode Island covering all five
counties is fully complete, and progress continues to complete the remaining laterals to
member CAI locations. In Bristol County, Massachusetts, the backbone fiber and laterals are
also nearing completion. All 12 of the core optical nodes in Rhode Island and Massachusetts
have been deployed, which will allow the Beacon network to provide a total capacity of up
to 400Gbps.
Funding
Federal Funding: $21.7M
Private Investment: $10.7M
Total Project: $32.4M
The completion of the BTOP grant period on 8/31/2013 is just the
beginning of the Beacon network. With the core optical network
in place, OSHEAN will have the capacity to support members’ future
bandwidth growth, and make it easy to turn up new dedicated
circuits between any locations on the Beacon network. With the
extensive fiber backbone, there will be many opportunities to
connect new member locations through the use of new or existing
fiber laterals.
OSHEAN BEACON 2.0 FIBER ROUTE
Fiber
Lease Term: 20 Year IRU, 20 Year Renewal Options
Miles of Fiber: Over 475 new miles planned
RI Vendor: Cox Communications
MA Vendor: Lightower/Sidera Networks
Community Anchor Institutions
K-12: 42 planned
Gov’t: 28 planned
Health Care: 20 planned
Higher Ed: 18 planned
Libraries: 14 planned
Other: 2 planned
Technical Specs
Total Capacity: 400Gbps
Total Core Nodes: 12 proposed
Platform: Optical DWDM Transport
Technology: MPLS-TP
Equipment Vendor: Atrion Network Services
General Facts
Federal Program: Broadband Technology
Opportunities Program (BTOP)
Project Term: 09/01/2010 - 08/31/2013
Job Years: 210
Services:100Mbps - 10Gbps
BEACON FIBER
OSHEAN is nearly complete with the implementation of the Beacon under the federal BTOP grant. Through the use
of long term fiber leases and strategic fiber swaps, OSHEAN will have an extensive fiber backbone throughout RI and
southeastern MA, allowing us to provide members with high capacity, cost effective network transport within the
OSHEAN network and to regional and national research networks. The Beacon fiber will serve as a foundation to meet
members’ growing bandwidth demands and foster new collaborative applications.
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LEASED CIRCUITS
OSHEAN offers leased data, voice, and hybrid circuits from selected carriers, which may be used to connect to
the OSHEAN network, or between Member sites. OSHEAN provides centralized management of circuits, working
directly with the carriers to simplify the ordering, billing, and management process for the Member.
DIGITAL DOWNLOAD DELIVERS MORE
Since May 2007, Ocean State Libraries (OSL) has offered all public library patrons in Rhode Island a way to download
books, music and video via its EZone web page. The EZone portal is primarily comprised of digital eBooks and
Audiobooks that allow for quick access to users’ reading and auditory needs.
Since its inception, the EZone web page has provided a great deal of service to public library patrons. In 2013, OSL
expects 12% of all library visitors will use EZone and enjoy more than 500,000 checkouts. This represents a growth
since 2007 from less than 1% of all library patrons to more than 12% using the service. Even more dramatic, digital
checkouts as a percentage of physical checkouts have grown from less than ¼ of 1% to 6-8% this year. “I do know
that the technology is getting easier to use, the competition in the field is growing, and some of the reluctant
publishers are doing tests with libraries on a portion of their collection,” said Lisa Sallee, OSL Assistant Director.
Some may assume that since all the material on EZone is digital, the eBook should be available to anyone all the
time. “That type of plan is available for some types of titles and the plan is usually an annual subscription where
unlimited patrons can checkout those titles but for a year only,” Sallee said. “Perhaps the most misunderstood
aspect of finding favorite authors and titles online at the library is that some of the biggest publishers do not make
their content available for libraries to purchase in digital format.”
“Libraries are always looking for ways to improve their service for patrons and to reach as many users as possible
in the most efficient and economical way,” Sallee said. “Hopefully one day, we will have all content easily available
all of the time and that users will find it intuitive and easy to use.”
SERVING STUDENTS’ NEEDS
RILINK’s mission is to assist schools in their effort to close gaps in student achievement. The organization recently
negotiated two new contracts to provide additional resources for collaboration in member schools, an important
effort that will help RILINK fulfill its long-term mission.
Using a service provided under contract with Follett Software for Destiny Library Manager, teachers in 153 Rhode
Island schools can now locate within RICAT books and web-based resources to help their students meet Common
Core and Rhode Island State standards. With one simple search in their school library catalog at www.ricat.net,
they can find quality content correlated to the standards they are teaching. Both keyword searching and browsing
through individual standards by topic and grade level make it more convenient to use library and web resources
as integral curriculum planning tools.
RILINK also negotiated a contract with the SpringShare Corporation for librarians from participating member
schools to use its LibGuides CMS product. The tool will allow the librarians to develop online resource guides to
enhance their library programs and collaborate with teachers, students and parents. These resources, available
at guides.rilinkschools.org, use LibGuides CMS to create guides and manage content and users. This full content
management system does not require knowledge of html and provides for easy sharing of modules and content
within a community of international users.
MANAGED NETWORK SERVICE
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For Members who do not wish to maintain their own router to connect to OSHEAN services, OSHEAN can
provide an installed, monitored, and managed router at a cost effective recurring lease price. Circuit trouble
resolution and tracking is also included in this service, including Telco leased lines and OSHEAN Beacon
2.0 circuits. The provided equipment will be refreshed as necessary, end-of-life, end-of –support, increased
capacity, etc.
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VMWARE
IVANS
OSHEAN entered into a three year VMware Enterprise Licensing Agreement, providing members with significant
savings on VMware licenses and associated support. In addition, members receive discounts on Liquidware Lab
products. Under this program, OSHEAN simplifies the ordering and license management process.
Through IVANS LIME Medicare Access, OSHEAN healthcare organizations are provided a
high-speed verification service for Blue Cross Blue Shield AR Medicare claims submission
and eligibility to effectively manage.
NEW SERVICES ADVANCES CAMPUS
In recent years, the Community College of Rhode Island—and its IT Department in particular—has expanded and
diversified the services it offers to students, faculty and staff.
The Department of Information Technology plans to develop a new standard for support, loosely based on Information
Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL), and focused on Information Technology Service Management (ITMS). This
process-based practice is intended to align the delivery of IT services with the needs of the college community. “This
is a paradigm shift from managing IT as stacks of individual components, to focusing on the delivery of end-to-end
services using best practice models,” said Steve Vieira, CCRI Chief Information Officer. Through the implementation
of the new service management tool, the department will alter its way of doing business to transform itself from the
prototypical IT design to one that is essentially process driven.
Instead of having a strict technology focus—where the standard procedure is being reactive, silo-based and
operationally specific— the ITSM process will evolve toward a preventative, proactive, and business perspective
service orientation for the college. A comprehensive catalog will detail the new service offerings and explain how the
organization is changing in a way that aligns with the directions and needs of the college.
The department’s ultimate goal is to provide high-quality technology services in a streamlined way, allowing students
and faculty to have an on-demand set of tools at their disposal. This structured approach for “service delivery” and
“service support” includes other areas such as the management of application, infrastructure and security. “With
the background support solutions of ISO 20000 and ITIL, the mission for IT is to develop and publish a set of policies,
processes and procedures that can be referenced and appropriately vetted throughout the college,” said Vieira.
Even with all these changes, the Department of Information Technology will continue to seek valuable feedback from
the people it serves. It has already established an advisory structure of three committees: the Institutional Technology
Advisory Committee, the Information Systems Advisory Committee and the Academic Technology Advisory Committee,
whose primary function is to evaluate and rate projects and requests of IT to determine which of them align most
closely to the strategic goals of the college. This governance structure has been effective for the department, and
moving forward this list of evaluated appeals will be complemented by IT’s new process-driven and formalized
structure. Integrating these elements will help the department deliver exceptional service in a more efficient and
effective manner.
TECHNOLOGY ENHANCES CONTINUITY
It’s safe to say that CharterCARE Health Partners has had its fair share of technology-driven projects over years.
From merging medical facilities to Safe Harbor expansions and disaster recovery initiatives, CharterCARE has come
full circle as it leads the healthcare community to a more robust technological environment.
“Over the past five years, we have been working on our Safe Harbor progress, in addition to the building and
growing of our disaster recovery plan around the site in Springfield, MA,” said Andy Fuss, CharterCARE Health
Partners’ Director of Technology. “Over the past two years we have put considerable effort into turning this
facility into a ‘hot site,’ and now Safe Harbor performs as our second data center. It’s a disaster recovery site and a
continuity hub for CharterCARE.”
While making the transition, Fuss and his team overcame the
challenges of moving data, data replication, and server protection
by using a multi-tiered approach. “We performed our first test of
bringing back the MEDITECH Hospital Management System on our
Springfield servers with the ISB/RecoverPoint and SRM. We were
able to log in to our system in the recovery environment in 25
minutes. This is with data that was only 25 minutes old!”
In addition to successfully running all of the historical medical
records and historical accounting systems from Springfield,
CharterCARE has brought up a large data repository in Springfield
where it is deploying applications to interpret and analyze the data.
Fuss adds that recent testing shows promise that CharterCARE’s
time and effort has paid off in utilizing its OSHEAN bandwidth
to protect two acute hospitals, multiple doctor’s practices and 60
off-site locations. “We look forward to continuing on our journey
and marching towards a full 50/50 distribution of live servers
between our sites.”
CUMULUS SAFE HARBOR - DISASTER RECOVERY FACILITY
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OSHEAN, working through its membership in NEREN (Northeast Research and Education Network, www.
neren.org), has collaborated with affiliates in Connecticut & Massachusetts to provide transport to an offsite,
telecommunications, alternative data center in Springfield, MA. Dubbed Safe Harbor, this facility offers secure
access to rack, power and pipe, housing of web and email servers and allows members to maintain their
presence on the Internet in the case of a disaster or emergency at their main site. Through the power of a
high speed independent Internet network, connectivity may be utilized to not only communicate with people
outside an immediate affected area, but also allow replication of applications crucial.
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FILTERING
OSHEAN Ensures that Library and K-12 members, connected through the Beacon Network, have a content filtering
solution which meets the requirements of the Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA). OSHEAN supports two
filtering options, both of which comply with the standards required for E-rate subsidy funding. These options
allow libraries and k-12 to customize their filter preventing access to users material that violates the organizations
acceptable use policy.
RI SCORES HIGH
Thanks to dedicated efforts by Rhode Island’s Office of the Secretary of State and the state
Board of Elections, Rhode Island provides its voters with more resources online than any other
state in the Northeast.
The Secretary of State’s web site at sos.ri.gov hosts look-up tools that enable voters to find their polling
place, review a sample ballot, check the status of their absentee ballot and confirm the accuracy of
their voter registration information. The state Board of Elections offers a provisional ballot look-up
tool. The Secretary of State’s office also maintains the state’s voter registration database, encourages
voter registration and turnout, and creates guides to running for office and voting.
Other organizations are taking notice of these efforts. The Pew Charitable Trusts, a non-profit
focused on public policy and civic life, recently published an assessment called “Online Lookup Tools
For Voters 2012” that reviewed states’ election-related web sites in five critical areas: polling place
lookup, voter registration status lookup, absentee ballot status lookup, provisional ballot status
lookup, and sample ballot lookup. Pew assessed the availability of the five lookup tools in all 50
states.
“How do voters find the information they need on and before Election Day? State election websites
or Google? Tons of people look online but can’t always find what they’re looking for because some
states don’t offer online resources,” said Stephanie A. Bosh, communications manager for Pew’s
Elections Initiatives.
The results of Pew’s review showed that Rhode Island is one of only nine states with a perfect score,
and the only one in the immediate region.
Secretary of State A. Ralph Mollis said his office takes pride in providing citizens with the tools they
need to be civically engaged.
“These tools have become a crucial way to ensure that voters are well prepared to go to the polls,”
he said. “Just take November’s election, for example. Our Voter Information Center had more than
300,000 page views in the seven days leading up to Election Day.”
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DOMAIN NAME SERVICES (DNS)
FIREWALL
In addition to name resolution, OSHEAN provides a fully managed DNS solution to members including record
management and acting as the authoritative source for member zones. For members who house their DNS
internally or with a third party, OSHEAN can provide secondary/tertiary sources for serving DNS records. The
k12.ri.us domain space is offered free to OSHEAN K-12 members in Rhode Island.
OSHEAN provides a hosted managed virtual firewall configured to a members’ specifications, provide training
and hand them the keys. The member can then continue to manage their firewall settings as they always have.
Or if members prefer, OSHEAN can help with adds/moves/changes and offer best practice security advice.
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