ACTI Communication, Collaboration, and Mobility (ACTI-CCM) Working Group

The ACTI Communication, Collaboration and Mobility (ACTI-CCM) Working Group focuses on the challenges that higher-education institutions face with respect to enterprise communication, collaboration, and mobility. Group participants pool their collective resources, time, and energy towards investigating specific challenges and opportunities in this space, sharing individual solutions, and developing effective practices for the higher-education community.

Mission

Communication, collaboration, and mobility are evolving at an incredible pace. IP telephony, unified communications, dual-mode phones, fixed-mobile convergence, presence awareness, videoconferencing, telepresence, application sharing, collaboration platforms, communication in the cloud, Wi-Fi, WiMAX, emergency notification, RFID, GIS, GPS, social networking, and more, all contribute to higher education’s collaboration potential and to its confusion. Our vision is to help the higher-education community efficiently and effectively realize the former, and avoid, to the extent possible, the latter.

If this collaboration potential can be fully realized, it will undoubtedly impact the overall mission of higher education in very positive ways.

Scope of Work

As an ACTI working group, our intention is to pool our collective resources, time, and energy towards investigating specific challenges and opportunities in the CCM space, sharing individual CCM solutions, and developing CCM best practices for the higher-education community at large. Our efforts will include peer surveys and comparisons (as in past collaboration with ECAR), case studies that illustrate successes or identify pitfalls, article publications, federation, other joint projects and pilots, and explorations of vendors, products, protocols, policies, and specific CCM-related technologies and issues. Most importantly, we hope to help the organizational decision-makers in this space (senior IT managers, CIOs, CTOs, COOs, CFOs, Provosts, etc.) focus on the important CCM issues: emerging CCM technologies, operational challenges, policies and procedures, regulatory issues, staffing and service structures, strategic planning, sustainable funding models, and the like.

We believe it is crucial that ACTI continues to provide a forum for meeting with vendors, especially as more core IT services are potentially commoditized and/or cast into the cloud, and as the seamless integration and interoperability of multiple vended and locally-developed solutions becomes even more of a necessity.

ACTI-CCM Membership

The ACTI-CCM Working Group isopen to anyone from an ACTI member institution interested in communication, collaboration, and mobility, and the kinds of activities upon which we’ll embark.

ACTI-CCM Governance

ACTI-CCM nominates and elects two co-chairs to serve for staggered two-year terms to ensure year-to-year continuity. One of these co-chairs will be elected to serve as a representative to the ACTI Priorities Committee.

Ideas for new projects and undertakings will come from the CCM membership, with input from ACTI members and the broader higher education community. Guidance in identifying new developments and strategic priorities will also come from the overarching ACTI Priorities Committee, focusing on those advanced core technologies with the greatest potential to impact higher education’s mission.

Contacts

Resources

ACTI-CCM Resources

• ACTI-CCM Winter 2012 Update
  Presentation at the January 10, 2012 ACTI Member Meeting
• ACTI Communication, Collaboration, and Mobility (CCM) Meeting, October 18, 2011 (EDUCAUSE Annual Conference 2011)
  • ACTI-CCM Meeting Agenda
• Special Projects
  • Emergency Notification Systems
  • Spectrum Info

Net@EDU Converged Communications Working Group Resources
The ACTI Communication, Collaboration, and Mobility group has a long history. It has its beginnings in the now-defunct EDUCAUSE Net@EDU initiative (which itself began in 1998), first as the Communications Strategies Working Group and then, following a merger with the Net@EDU Wireless Working Group in 2007, as the Converged Communications Working Group. When Net@EDU gave way to ACTI in 2010, the group was again recreated as the ACTI Communication, Collaboration, and Mobility Working Group. The below resources are specific to the Net@EDU working group.

• Converged Communications Working Group Annual Report (2007-2008)
• CCWG Meetings 2007-2009
• Net@EDU Archives

ACTI-CCM Working Group List

The ACTI-CCM working group conducts business through the ACTI-CCM discussion list. Participants must be associated with an ACTI member institution and will be able to join or leave the list when their membership on the working group is confirmed.