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21 <br /> 6. nearby public transportation <br /> Subscription Services <br /> Rather than rely solely on the public coming to our website for information, <br /> Orange County IT wants to look at mechanisms for targeting audiences <br /> and pushing information out as a service. Specifically, members of the <br /> public may wish to have the County contact them with new developments <br /> in their areas of interest, through a self-enrolling subscription service. For <br /> example, realtors could subscribe to updates on zoning and land use <br /> planning; contractors could subscribe to updates on inspection <br /> information; physicians could subscribe to information on breaking health <br /> department issues. <br /> Orange County IT recommends developing subscription service <br /> technologies to enhance citizen services. To control costs of producing <br /> content, ongoing web content updates could be categorized and delivered <br /> to the public via email. <br /> INFRASTRUCTURE APPLICATIONS <br /> There are important upgrades that must be made to Orange County's technical <br /> infrastructure in order to ensure customer needs are consistently met. <br /> Network Modernization Project <br /> The high speed fiber that interconnects all of the major downtown Hillsborough <br /> facilities, as outlined in the section titled "Network" on page 15, Network, has <br /> enabled significant efficiencies of operation and flexibility in serving the public. <br /> The benefits accrued by these initiatives include: <br /> • Ability to serve public needs from a variety of locations, each interconnected <br /> to a common database through high-speed fiber networking <br /> • Flexibility to move County operations to and from various locations in the <br /> event of an emergency <br /> • Ability to share data across departments and locations, previously only <br /> supported through cumbersome and time-consuming manual data transfer <br /> • Overall increase in internet access, access to state systems and other <br /> systems beyond the user's current physical location <br /> • Ability to centralize server equipment, thus increasing our ability to protect <br /> equipment from intrusion, disaster and environmental hazards <br /> • Ability to leverage centralized data backup methods, thus increasing data <br /> retention for archival information <br /> Orange County has pressing needs for further network upgrades. Specifically: <br />