ACTI-CCM Working Group

ACTI-CIA

In March 2013, members of what at that time was known as the ACTI Communication, Collaboration and Mobility (ACTI-CCM) Working Group reviewed and updated its mission to better reflect the work and goals of the group. At the same time, the group decided to update its name to ACTI Communications Infrastructure and Applications (ACTI-CIA) Working Group to support their updated mission.

Mission

The ACTI Communications Infrastructure and Applications (ACTI-CIA) 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.

ACTI-CIA aims to help the organizational decision-makers in this space (senior IT managers, CIOs, CTOs, COOs, CFOs, provosts, etc.) focus on the important communication technology issues: emerging and evolving technologies, operational challenges, peer benchmarking, policies and procedures, federal and state regulations, staffing and service structures, strategic planning, sustainable funding models, and other relevant topics. In addition, we believe it is crucial 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 and challenge.

The scope of this working group typically includes investigations around:

• Telecommunications, including IP telephony, dual-mode phones, wireless, mobile infrastructures, and fixed-mobile convergence
• Unified communications
• Collaborative communications, including presence awareness, videoconferencing, telepresence, application sharing, and collaboration platforms
• Communication in the cloud
• Support for specific communications technologies, such as VoIP, SIP, campus LAN/Wi-Fi, cellular, GPS, and GIS
• Emergency communications management and notification
• Social networking

The working group welcomes input, ideas, and participation from the higher education community. Contact us at acti@educause.edu

Membership

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

Governance

ACTI-CIA 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 CIA 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.