education higher education government nonprofit internet2 founded 1999 rhode island headquarters north kingstown ri key people david marble president and ceo chip tolbert chief operations officer tim rue chief technology officer number of employees 18 2015 website www.oshean.org the ocean state higher education economic development and administrative network oshean pronounced ocean is a non profit coalition of universities hospitals government agencies and other non profit organizations providing internet based technology for its member institutions and the communities they serve . oshean is a member of the rhode island technology community regularly contributing expertise and resources to a wide range of initiatives from school enrichment activities to community forums on technology related issues in the public interest . oshean regularly pursues opportunities for local regional and national collaboration and plays a national leadership role in professional education for it professionals and policy development in the information technology arena . oshean is building a communications infrastructure for rhode island s institutions of higher education state and federal government agencies non profit research organizations workforce development initiatives and economic development efforts . history edit oshean inc. is a consortium of non profit organizations tasked with the creation of an internet communications network . oshean was founded in 1999 through a collaboration by rinet rhode island network for educational technology k 12 the university of rhode island and brown university . the consortium of non profit organizations now totaling 28 was originally formed to bring an internet2 point of presence to rhode island . initially several institutions of higher education in rhode island formed the oshean membership . in september 2001 the consortium expanded into the health care community after lifespan became oshean s 11th member . oshean further branched out to state government in october 2005 when the rhode island department of administration now the ri division of information technology joined the consortium . oshean reached beyond the borders of rhode island for the first time in 2002 to welcome wheaton college as its 13th member . in 2011 oshean merged with rinet rhode island network for educational technology and began to directly service pk 12 and libraries across rhode island . today oshean delivers an internet based communication infrastructure with member services . technologies include ultra broadband access to the internet and internet2 network security disaster recovery emergency preparedness video conferencing and voip . oshean collaboratively delivers and maintains a secure communications infrastructure for rhode island s research education health care and public service communities . external links edit oshean website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title oshean & oldid 718910121 categories non profit organizations based in rhode islandnorth kingstown rhode islandwashington county rhode island navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 6 may 2016 at 11 11 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view