SCIway Blueprint:

A Plan for Developing the Public Portion of

South Carolina's Information Highway


Prepared by the Appalachian Council of Governments
for the South Carolina Budget and Control Board
under a grant from the
United States Department of Commerce
National Telecommunications and Information Administration
Telecommunications and Information Infrastructure Assistance Program
(TIIAP)
Grant Number: 45 - 50 - 94014
December, 1996

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
1. Introduction

1.1 What is SCIway?
1.2 SCIway versus SCINET
1.3 Purpose and focus of this plan
1.4 How SCIway Blueprint was developed
1.5 Objectives of the NTIA planning grant
1.6 Organization of this plan
1.7 Why developing the public portion of SCIway is important

2. Definitions of Important Terms
3. Summary of Major Findings and Recommendations

3.1 Providing on-line public information and services that will make life better for South Carolinians
3.2 Connecting government agencies to SCIway and the Internet
3.3 Helping South Carolinians access SCIway and the Internet
3.4 Helping South Carolinians use SCIway and the Internet effectively
3.5 Planning, coordinating, and promoting the development of SCIway

4. Providing On-line Public Information and Services that Will Make Life Better for South Carolinians

4.1 Types of public information and services South Carolinians want to be able to access on-line
4.2 On-line public information and services currently available
4.3 Recommendations

5. Connecting Government Agencies to SCIway and the Internet

5.1 Current state of government agency networking
5.2 South Carolina's first shared state government data network
5.3 SCINET: an array of networks
5.4 Recommendations
6. Helping South Carolinians Access SCIway and the Internet

6.1 Major findings
6.2 Recommendations
7. Helping South Carolinians Use SCIway and the Internet Effectively

7.1 Major findings
7.2 Recommendations
8. Planning, Coordinating, and Promoting the Development of SCIway

8.1 What is the Information Resources Council?
8.2 What are the characteristics of effective government and how are these characteristics being promoted in the Information Resources Council and the SCIway Blueprint?