§ 54-59-02 — Information technology department - Responsibility - Public policy

The information technology department is established with the responsibility for all wide
area network services planning, selection, and implementation for all state agencies, including
institutions under the control of the board of higher education, counties, cities, and school
districts in this state. With respect to a county, city, or school district, wide area network services
are those services necessary to transmit voice, data, or video outside the county, city, or school
district. In exercising its powers and duties, the department is responsible for computer support
services, host software development, statewide communications services, standards for
providing information to other state agencies and the public through the internet, technology
planning, process redesign, and quality assurance. The department may not exercise its powers
and duties in a manner that competes or otherwise interferes with the provision of
telecommunications service to a private, charitable, or nonprofit entity by a privately or
cooperatively owned telecommunications company.