2008 IT Funding
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5. List 2008 collaborative activities and funding sources
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Arkansas Extension continues to benefit from the collaborations formed as a result of PLN. Some of the current collaborations include
- Centra partnership with Texas A&M, more critical due to shrinking budgets
- Collaboration with University of Arkansas Fort Smith for Banner DR
- Part of ARE-ON (Arkansas Research and Education Optical Network) committee
In addition to the traditional funding sources, other funds include
- Revenue from support of Fair Management sales
- Matching funds from FSNE
- Rice Promotion Board
- Cotton Incorporated
- Soybean/Irrigation
- Ag Technology Transfer
- Fertilizer Tonnage funds
- Software donaation in support of Luminis portal
Texas AgriLife IT in the past year has:
- Contracted with eXtension to provide Moodle support and training
- Centra partnerships with Arkansas, Louisiana, Kentucky, and Oklahoma moved to Texas A&M System Centra system; provided greater capacity for the same annual cost
- Developed Excellence in Extension benchmarking database application for use CES wide; funding from ECOP
- Developed benchmarking database application for SAESD; no funding
- In partnership with County Commissioners Courts, implemented year-round technology purchasing program for county Extension based equipment
- Continued support for CECP Online; no funding
Oklahome State University Extension IT collaboratives include:
- partnership with TAMU, UKY, UA, and LSU for Centra web conferencing
- various eXtension activities
NC Extension IT
- Continued involvement with CYFERNet and goCybercamp
University of Kentucky
--Continue partnership with TAMU for Centra
--eXtension
--Continue to explore the use of grants to help push Extension IT initiatives
--Utilize Central IT offerings such as MS SharePoint and Microsoft Office Communications Server
Alabama Cooperative Extension System
- Two grant-funded projects for which our IT Unit received salary funding for development work performed:
- Alabama Community Healthy Marriage Initiative
- Healthy Homes Partnership
- Partnered with Auburn University Office of Information Technology and School of Forestry to fund deployment of MS SharePoint 2007 (MOSS).
- Adobe Connect has been purchased by the AU Fisheries Department and is available for Extension use.
- eXtension Imported Fire Ant COP
LSU AgCenter IT
- Numerous grant funded initiatives
- Rental of Compressed Video sites to State of LA professional development training group
- eXtension
