The Michigan Secretary of State office is moving to put a wide variety of materials on the World Wide Web. And in Ann Arbor, online resources for the Washtenaw County court system include online motion filings and online dockets. Infrastructure Michigan can respond to many opportunities if it is preeminent in networking infrastructure. Michigan is home to Merit Network, Inc., a nonprofit corporation which has served as a leader in computer networking for more than 30 years. The organization was formed in 1966 to interconnect computers at three Michigan universities.
Merit is now the largest Internet service organization in Michigan.
Merit provides connectivity to educational institutions, libraries, health care providers, governments and businesses. Merit's network puts 95 percent of the state's residents within a local dial-up. No roadmap to Michigan's information technology network exists. Phone companies consider such information to be proprietary. The Michigan Public Service Commission, federal agencies, trade publications, phone company officials andconsultants all failed to provide the Michigan Information Technology Commission with pertinent statistics in this arena.