NASCIO has just published a new document on digital records: "Electronic Records Management and Digital Preservation: Protecting the Knowledge Assets of the State Government Enterprise." The paper is at the top of this page.
State government chief information officers are meeting today in Washington, D.C. to participate in the seventh annual NASCIO DC Fly-In. From the association's news release:
40 state representatives participated in NASCIO’s 2007 DC Fly-In, and took the opportunity to meet with members of Congress, committee staff and executives from federal executive branch agencies, as well as NASCIO’s strategic partners, to discuss critical issues and emerging trends in the state information technology (IT) arena. NASCIO's 2007 policy issues for federal action focus on strengthening national Cybersecurity through state homeland security program funding. Visit ww.nascio.org/advocacy/washWatch/to view the NASCIO Call for Action on this issue.
The focus of the Fly-In is cybersecurity.
It's no secret that state civil servants are fast retiring and changing the IT landscape. So it only makes sense that a new kind of CIO might emerge.
They don't remember when "we had a mainframe environment."
Government Technology has published its list of "Doers, Dreamers and Drivers," people who are "pushing the boundaries of government-as-usual."
Among the listed individuals are Chris Cummiskey, Chief Information Officer, Government Information Technology Agency, State of Arizona; Bill Ezell, Chief Information Officer, State of Tennessee; Doug Robinson, NASCIO's Executive Director; Mary Carroll, former Chief Information Officer, State of Ohio; and Doug Elkins, former Executive Chief Information Officer for the State of Arkansas.
Chis Anderson, he of The Long Tail fame, posted an article, Who needs a CIO?," which drew this response from Eric Lundquist at Eweek.
Ben Worthen at CIO.com has published more on the consumer-led IT phenomenon, suggesting that anywhere, anytime computing has created a shadow IT department:
The emergence of this second IT department—call it 'the shadow IT department'—is a natural product of the disconnect that has always existed between those who provide IT and those who use it.
And that disconnect is fundamental. Users want IT to be responsive to their individual needs and to make them more productive. CIOs want IT to be reliable, secure, scalable and compliant with an ever increasing number of government regulations. Consequently, when corporate IT designs and provides an IT system, manageability usually comes first, the user’s experience second. But the shadow IT department doesn’t give a hoot about manageability and provides its users with ways to end-run corporate IT when the interests of the two groups do not coincide.
Just what does computing have to do with emotion? CIO Magazine reports.
Government Technology: Wisconsin CIO Matt Miszewski will step down at the end of February.
According to Government Technology, NASCIO has released a new issue brief, Staying Connected to Your Customers: Strategies and Tactics to Grow Enterprise IT Services. The new report is on the use of customer relationship strategies for building relationships with agencies.
GovernmentVAR, a web site devoted to technology integrators and value-added providers, recently published some spending and trends information that I found interesting. Its State of the States article also quotes a number of state government CIOs in an effort to provide a heads up on the opportunities available to the private sector.
The spending forecast looks good for telecommunications and public safety, two areas where NASTD members are active:
Research firm Input predicts that IT spending in state and local government will reach more than $60 billion in 2008 and about $73 billion in 2011. Of that, $50 billion will be contracted to the private sector in 2008, $62 billion in 2011.
Two areas that will carry significant opportunity for the channel are public safety, which Input predicts will grow 12 percent to $3.4 billion in the next five years, and health care, which is expected to grow 10 percent in that same time frame, from $7.6 billion to $12.2 billion.
The most significant sector growth will happen in telecommunications (from 19 percent of the budget in 2006 to 23 percent in 2011) and services (from 23 percent in 2006 to 30 percent in 2011). Software products will stay at about 9 percent of the total IT budget, while computer hardware is expected to drop from 16 percent to 14 percent.
The trends, as broken down by GovernmentVAR:
Thanks to NASCIO's Enterprise Architecture Newsbriefs for providing the link.
While you're at GovernmentVAR, check out the audio from an interview with NASCIO's executive director Doug Robinson on the challenges for state government IT.
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