About Us

Who we serve

WVNET works with K-12 schools, higher educational institutions, libraries, state and county governments, and various not-for-profits.

High-speed internet connectivity to every school, library, government building, and county courthouse
Secure server hosting and administration
Cybersecurity tools and education
Email services including virus and spam filtering, email list management
Statewide software and hardware purchasing consortium
Information security and network firewall protection
Learning Management Systems hosting and support
Consulting services and support
Web design and development

Our Mission

West Virginia Network for Educational Telecomputing (WVNET) is a dynamic service organization providing telecommunications and computing services within West Virginia. WVNET offers services to state colleges and universities, state government, K-12, public libraries, and county government. As a centralized state resource, WVNET reacts to customer needs in providing efficient and cost-effective deployment of technology, training and support.

Our Vision

WVNET is a centralized resource taking the lead in providing quality technology services and support to the citizens of West Virginia. WVNET supports and promotes the missions of its member institutions by providing telecommunications capabilities and enhanced access to resources and programs for their supported communities. WVNET will provide such access through the effective use of the appropriate information technology networks at a cost affordable to its users

Our Values

WVNET values excellence, leadership, partnerships, quality of service, a focus on customer needs, expertise in technology futures and deployment, communications with member organizations, professional development, change and change management, and flexibility in both service offerings and governance to meet its mission.

Our Goals

Support high-speed information networks within the state of West Virginia. Connect the statewide network to networks within the National Information Infrastructure.

Serve as an information technology resource center for the colleges, universities, K-12 and government in West Virginia and promote the use of information technology throughout the state.

Monitor the purchasing and supporting hardware, software, and information technology services in a cost-effective manner, and within the framework of a cooperative association with its members.

Ensure and promote that professional knowledge base and subject matter expertise among all WVNET clients and internal staff by encouraging professional development, providing training opportunities and literature.

Connecting West Virginia to the World since 1975

Our History

WVNET was created in 1975 to provide central computing facilities and wide-area network communications linking its “central site” computing resources in Morgantown with the campus computing systems at most of the colleges and universities throughout the state.