The city of San Jose added a new layer to it’s already far reaching accountability and sunshine laws last week — the city council unanimously approved a measure requiring council members to disclose electronic communications, including those received on their personal email or cell phones from lobbyists or others with a material interest in the [...]
According to two policy letters issued over the last week, California’s Office of the State Chief Information Officer (OCIO) has amended the state’s Statewide Information Management Manual (SIMM) to include social media and teleworking standards. The letters are the latest in a string of policies being issued OCIO, including open source, green IT use and [...]
According to an executive order signed last week, North Carolina-based contractors who are competing for state work against an out-of-state company will be given a price-matching opportunity if the bids are within a specified range. Governor Bev Perdue said Executive Order No. 50 will give North Carolina businesses a much needed boon to their businesses.
Yesterday, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed an executive order to standardize IT governance across the state by defining timelines for IT consolidation and shared services of data centers, e-mail and security measures. The order also calls for a 30 percent reduction in energy usage from IT by 2012.
A task force assigned to make Hawaii’s state government more efficient and increase productivity has released a report recommending various information technology and procurement reforms, as well as the establishment of a senior chief information officer.
The $787 billion funding streams created as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act passed in 2009 will end in 2012. Accenture’s Mark Howard discusses what programs and practices will last far beyond the two-year ARRA life cycle. From transparency measures to econometric forecasting, federal reporting mandates and increased grants competition has ushered a new [...]
Last week, the New York State Chief Information Officer and Office for Technology (CIO/OFT) joined over 200 industry officials in a session to discuss how the state could leverage emerging strategies in cloud computing. New York joins a growing choir of states, from Michigan to California, who are examining the benefits of delivering hosted IT [...]
During a forum held at the Brookings Institution yesterday in Washington, D.C. Microsoft senior vice president and general council, Brad Smith, proposed federal legislation meant to address the emerging practice of computing over the Internet, also known as cloud computing. Smith and other forum participants stressed the need to raise privacy and security issues associated [...]
