2012 Revised Code of Washington
Title 43 - STATE GOVERNMENT — EXECUTIVE
43.41A Office of the chief information officer.
43.41A.006 Definitions.

RCW 43.41A.006 Definitions.

The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise.

     (1) "Backbone network" means the shared high-density portions of the state's telecommunications transmission facilities. It includes specially conditioned high-speed communications carrier lines, multiplexors, switches associated with such communications lines, and any equipment and software components necessary for management and control of the backbone network.

     (2) "Board" means the technology services board.

     (3) "Committee" means the state interoperability executive committee.

     (4) "Educational sectors" means those institutions of higher education, school districts, and educational service districts that use the network for distance education, data transmission, and other uses permitted by the board.

     (5) "Enterprise architecture" means an ongoing program for translating business vision and strategy into effective enterprise change. It is a continuous activity. Enterprise architecture creates, communicates, and improves the key principles and models that describe the enterprise's future state and enable its evolution.

     (6) "Equipment" means the machines, devices, and transmission facilities used in information processing, including but not limited to computers, terminals, telephones, wireless communications system facilities, cables, and any physical facility necessary for the operation of such equipment.

     (7) "Information" includes, but is not limited to, data, text, voice, and video.

     (8) "Information technology" includes, but is not limited to, all electronic technology systems and services, automated information handling, system design and analysis, conversion of data, computer programming, information storage and retrieval, telecommunications, requisite system controls, simulation, electronic commerce, and all related interactions between people and machines.

     (9) "Information technology portfolio" or "portfolio" means a strategic management process documenting relationships between agency missions and information technology and telecommunications investments.

     (10) "K-20 network" means the network established in RCW 43.41A.085.

     (11) "Local governments" includes all municipal and quasi-municipal corporations and political subdivisions, and all agencies of such corporations and subdivisions authorized to contract separately.

     (12) "Office" means the office of the chief information officer.

     (13) "Oversight" means a process of comprehensive risk analysis and management designed to ensure optimum use of information technology resources and telecommunications.

     (14) "Proprietary software" means that software offered for sale or license.

     (15) "State agency" or "agency" means every state office, department, division, bureau, board, commission, or other state agency, including offices headed by a statewide elected official.

     (16) "Telecommunications" includes, but is not limited to, wireless or wired systems for transport of voice, video, and data communications, network systems, requisite facilities, equipment, system controls, simulation, electronic commerce, and all related interactions between people and machines. "Telecommunications" does not include public safety communications.

[2011 1st sp.s. c 43 § 705.]

Notes:

Effective date -- Purpose -- 2011 1st sp.s. c 43: See notes following RCW 43.19.003.