“The more abundant the information in the world,
the more economics becomes the science of allocating attention.”
— George Gilder
Today we break down the literature for building, maintaining and supporting the computing infrastructure of education communities. We use the term “infotech” gingerly to explain action for a broad span of technologies that encompass enterprise servers and software, wireless and wired networks, campus phone networks, and desktop computers that provide administrative services and career tech video production. The private sector has moved at light speed to respond to the circumstances of the pandemic; so have vertical incumbents evolving their business models to seek conformance revenue in this plasma-hot domain.
Starting 2023 we break down the topic accordingly:
Infotech 100: Survey of the principal standards developing organizations whose catalogs are incorporated by reference into federal and state legislation. Revision cycles.
Infotech 200: Campus computing facilities for research and education
Infotech 300: Communication networks, wired and unwired at the demarcation point; crucial for defining the responsibilities and boundaries between the service provider and the customer.
Infotech 400: System, middleware and application for education and research
We have begun to track case studies of satellite-based internet services to rural and remote schools and community colleges.
Throughout 2025 we will expand our inquiry in this time slot. There are obvious global security issues to enlighten approaches to assuring communication security if, for example, undersea cables are maliciously destroyed.
The literature radiates continually by consortia, open-source, or ad hoc standards-setting domains rather than the private standards system administered by global and standards setting bodies; to wit:
International:
IEC (EN 50600), IET, ISO, ITU
Vocabulary
United States:
Data Center Operations and Maintenance Best Practices
Everywhere else:
3GPP & 3GPP2, Apache Software Foundation, ISTE, OneM2M, Uptime Institute
The ICT domain is huge, replacing physical libraries. The foregoing is a highly curated sample.
We continue to include teaching and learning media standards on our colloquia however it is likely that will break up this topic into at least two related colloquia as 2023 proceeds; with primary focus on the design, construction and maintenance of the physical ICT infrastructure. Much depends upon the interest of our clients, colleagues and other stakeholders. We collaborate closely with the IEEE Education and Healthcare Electrotechnology Committee.
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