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Orange County Information Technologies Strategic Plan <br />5. nearby parks <br />6. nearby public transportation <br />Subscription Services <br />Rather than rely solely on the public coming to our <br />website for information, Orange County IT wants to <br />look at mechanisms for targeting audiences and <br />pushing information out as a service. Specifically, <br />members of the public may wish to have the County <br />contact them with new developments in their areas of <br />interest, through aself-enrolling subscription service. <br />For example, realtors could subscribe to updates on <br />zoning and land use planning; contractors could <br />subscribe to updates on inspection information; <br />physicians could subscribe to information on breaking <br />health department issues. <br />Orange County IT recommends developing <br />subscription service technologies to enhance citizen <br />services. To control costs of producing content, <br />ongoing web content updates could be categorized <br />and delivered to the public via email. <br />INFRASTRUCTURE APPLICATIONS <br />There are important upgrades that must be made to Orange <br />County's technical infrastructure in order to ensure customer <br />needs are consistently met. <br />Network Modernization Project <br />The high speed fiber that interconnects all of the major <br />downtown Hillsborough facilities, as outlined in the <br />section titled "Network" on page 7, Network, has enabled <br />significant efficiencies of operation and flexibility in <br />serving the public. The benefits accrued by these <br />initiatives include: <br />• Ability to serve public needs from a variety of locations, <br />each interconnected to a common database through <br />high-speed fiber networking <br />16 <br />Page 15 of 25 12/1/2008 <br />