The Santa Cruz City Council is working to link up the city’s disparate technology efforts to create greater transparency and improve service delivery. A new three-part initiative aims to help local technology companies grow while centralizing public works through better use of technology.
Getting face time with the boss when it comes to information security is a hard thing to do in government. Much like the electricity that keeps lights on in our homes, we only begin to think of cyber security when there is a breach or a high-volume displacement of data. CivSource recently sat down with [...]
Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton announced that the Chief Operating Officer for Information Technology Services for the Minnesota System of Colleges and Universities (MnSCU), Carolyn Parnell, will be the states new Chief Information Officer. In her capacity atop the Office of Enterprise Technology (OET), Ms. Parnell will guide the state’s IT strategy and manage internal and [...]
According to Delaware Governor Jack Markell an initiative to move notary applications and processing into the digital age is making progress. The governor said more than 40 percent of the state’s notary publics have signed up for the streamlined service since being launched last October. The state has nearly 10,000 notary publics, and Gov. Markell [...]
According to new rules published last week by the Treasury Department’s Financial Management Service, Social Security recipients can expect to receive their checks through electronic funds transfer (EFT) beginning May 1, 2011. Officials believe the move to direct deposit could save upwards of $1 billion over the next 10 years.
According to Rick Webb, former state chief information officer for the state of North Carolina, the fiscal crises besetting state and local governments presents the perfect opportunity for state CIOs to showcase the power of technology to deal with a “perfect storm” of declining budgets and increasing demand for services. “CIOs are feeling enormous pressure [...]
According to a report from the Office of Chief Information Officer (OCIO), the state of California is making progress on its network consolidation agenda. The states IT agency posted a scorecard on the status of executive branch agencies migrating to the California Government Enterprise Network (CGEN), indicating that nearly 80 of the state’s 123 departments have [...]
In what is surely to become a trend, the state of Washington became the second in as many weeks to announce consolidation and realignment plans within its administrative branch. According to Gov. Gregoire’s proposal, she intends to reduce the number of state agencies from 21 to 9 to save $30 million over the next biennium. [...]
Minneapolis is poised to be one of the only major cities in the US with citywide wi-fi. In the last five years, major cities from Chicago to New York have made grand announcements toward this end but so far none of them have delivered – until now. Minneapolis is offering its residents a 59-square mile [...]
A new report finds technology agenda items among the 37 incoming governors played a more important role during the 2010 campaigns than in past elections. IT-specific promises ranged from enhancing educational performance and streamlining business regulations, to making government operations more transparent.
