During a webinar yesterday, Code for America officials discussed timelines and deliverables for projects that will help local governments do more with less. An educational services platform, two civic engagement projects and a catalog devoted to institutionalizing open source software in city government round out the inaugural set of projects being developed by the 2011 [...]
According to an announcement late last week, Facebook Inc. has decided to build a $450 million data center facility in Rutherford County, North Carolina. Through a combination of tax incentives, public-private partnerships and meteorological endowment, the state is making a play to become a data center Mecca. Update: This Monday, Gov. Purdue announced that Wipro [...]
Consolidation, virtualization, budget and health are the top issues facing state CIOs right now according to the results of an annual survey of state CIOs from the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO). This year’s survey also marked a significant change in priorities as state CIOs respond to the new health IT requirements [...]
According to an interim report, produced by Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell’s Commission on Government Reform & Restructuring, the Commonwealth is looking to promote expanded use of telework in government, while enhancing business-centric and citizen-centric customer services. Making up the lion’s share of the reports 107 suggestions, the shared services committee recommended ways to make collections [...]
As part of an information-gathering effort, Code for America yesterday began asking the Twitter-verse for case studies, success stories and ideas for how cities are becoming more open. By using Expert Labs’ ThinkUp social media analytics tool, the non-profit hopes to see if wisdom from the tweeting millions can help generate a playbook for Open [...]
During a Tuesday panel discussion hosted by the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF) at the Newseum, industry leaders and government officials discussed the future of mobile broadband and related public policies that will enable America to be a the forefront of that sector’s development.
During last week’s Gov 2.0 Summit, Open Government Expert David Eaves sat down with CivSource to discuss open data initiatives at the state and local levels of government. Mr. Eaves suggests that significant strides need to be made in both government culture and strategy before the widespread benefits of open data can be realized in [...]
Earlier this summer, the Obama administration announced enhancements to its Federal IT Dashboard – a website designed to monitor the federal government’s $80 billion in annual information technology investments. If utilized property, says one observer, initiatives like the IT Dashboard could be used to do far more than evaluate project timelines and spend. According to [...]
The California Emergency Management Agency (Cal EMA) is using a new solution from IBM and Pancetera to better manage their archived data while improving backup of their live data. By consolidating and managing some 80 percent of its data on virtual machines, Cal EMA expects to reduce 75 percent of its decades-old data backup.
Arizona’s Government Information Technology Agency (GITA) announced its FY 2011 Statewide Strategic IT Plan this week, outlining the state’s technology priorities and recapping some of the state’s accomplishments. Achieving efficiency & cost savings, enabling the private sector and building platforms for citizen engagement are among the five statewide goals outlined in the Plan.
