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2007 Florida Statutes

Section 282.0041, Florida Statutes 2007

282.0041  Definitions.--For the purposes of this part, the term:

(1)  "Agency" means those entities described in s. 216.011(1)(qq).

(2)  "Agency Chief Information Officer" means the person appointed by the agency head to coordinate and manage the information technology functions and responsibilities applicable to that agency and to participate and represent his or her agency in developing strategies for implementing enterprise information technology services identified in law and developing recommendations for enterprise information technology policy.

(3)  "Agency Chief Information Officers Council" means the council created in s. 282.315

(4)  "Agency for Enterprise Information Technology" means the agency created in s. 14.204

(5)  "Agency information technology service" means a service that directly helps the agency fulfill its statutory or constitutional responsibilities and policy objectives and is usually associated with the agency's primary or core business functions.

(6)  "Customer relationship management" or "CRM" means the business processes, software, and Internet capabilities that can help state agencies manage customer relationships of the organization at the enterprise level.

(7)  "Enterprise level" means all executive branch agencies created or authorized in statute to perform legislatively delegated functions.

(8)  "Enterprise information technology service" means an information technology service that is used in all agencies or a subset of agencies and is established in law to be designed, delivered, and managed at the enterprise level.

(9)  "E-mail, messaging, and calendaring service" means the enterprise information technology service that enables users to send, receive, file, store, manage, and retrieve electronic messages, attachments, appointments, and addresses.

(10)  "Information technology" means equipment, hardware, software, firmware, programs, systems, networks, infrastructure, media, and related material used to automatically, electronically, and wirelessly collect, receive, access, transmit, display, store, record, retrieve, analyze, evaluate, process, classify, manipulate, manage, assimilate, control, communicate, exchange, convert, converge, interface, switch, or disseminate information of any kind or form.

(11)  "Information technology policy" means statements that describe clear choices for how information technology will deliver effective and efficient government services to residents and improve state agency operations. Such a policy may relate to investments, business applications, architecture, or infrastructure. A policy describes its rationale, implications of compliance or noncompliance, the timeline for implementation, metrics for determining compliance, and the accountable structure responsible for its implementation.

(12)  "Project" means an endeavor that has a defined start and end point; is undertaken to create or modify a unique product, service, or result; and has specific objectives that, when attained, signify completion.

(13)  "Standards" means the use of current, open, nonproprietary, or non-vendor-specific technologies.

(14)  "Total cost" means all costs associated with information technology projects or initiatives, including, but not limited to, value of hardware, software, service, maintenance, incremental personnel, and facilities. Total cost of a loan or gift of information technology resources to an agency includes the fair market value of the resources, except that the total cost of loans or gifts of information technology to state universities to be used in instruction or research does not include fair market value.

History.--ss. 3, 11, ch. 83-92; s. 17, ch. 87-137; ss. 10, 11, ch. 90-160; s. 4, ch. 91-171; s. 10, ch. 91-221; s. 5, ch. 91-429; s. 3, ch. 92-98; s. 95, ch. 92-142; s. 14, ch. 94-226; s. 11, ch. 94-340; s. 9, ch. 97-286; s. 16, ch. 2000-164; s. 51, ch. 2001-61; s. 10, ch. 2001-261; s. 4, ch. 2007-105.

Note.--Former s. 282.303.