Evaluation of the Telecommunications and Information Infrastructure Assistance Program. Case Study Report. The Trans-Border Information Technology Collaborative (TB-ITC), University of Texas at El Paso, 94056. El Paso, Texas

摘要

The project originally began as a 12-month planning project to improve the information infrastructure for the City of El Paso. The grant recipient was the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), which became the lead agency in the Trans-Border Information Technology Collaborative (TB-ITC), a consortium of organizations and agencies formed to conduct telecommunications planning for the region. The TB-ITC is a collaborative effort involving a variety of educational institutions, businesses, governmental agencies, and community-based organizations within the region encompassing western Texas, southern New Mexico, and northern Chihuahua, Mexico. The organization has focused primarily on education but also has tested and explored different uses of state-of-the-art software and videoconferencing equipment for the delivery of education, health, art, government, and business communication requirements across the entire region.