According to a statement released Monday night, the Commonwealth of Virginia has yet to bring its statewide data storage system online after a malfunction August 25. The outage originally affected twenty-seven of Virginia’s eighty-nine agencies, and Technology Secretary Jim Duffey reports that three agencies are not yet fully operational: the Department of Motor Vehicles, the [...]
In this edition of CivSource’s The Gallery, Tim O’Reilly, founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media, Inc., discusses his vision of government that enables innovation through “platform thinking” and a government that is more responsive to its citizens in an age of electronic participation.
IBM and Wyse Technology are partnering on a new cloud solution to promote universal access for students. Initially, the partnership will deliver an IBM Smart Business Desktop Cloud offering to middle school students in Aurora, IL. The partnership is part of a collaborative program with Lrn2innovate, an education infrastructure provider and the Dunham Fund, a [...]
Accenture will lead a plan to develop and implement shared services for the University of North Texas System (UNTS), the company said in a press release today. UNTS will examine campus-level and university system-wide IT and HR/payroll functions to develop a five-year plan. According to the UNT System Vice Chancellor of Finance and the UNTS [...]
The Colorado Department of Human Services (CDHS), Division of Child Support Enforcement (CSE) is looking for a way to monitor and track an online training system for county and state CSE staff. The RFI is seeking information on software programs that can automate administrative, registration, tracking and notification tasks associated to CSE training.
Last week, the US Labor Department announced $9.6 million to improve unemployment insurance information technology systems. According to the Labor Dept., the money is designed to help states solidify IT security and contingency plans for their unemployment insurance (UI) systems.
A Florida health agency and a Texas-based Community College are both utilizing a simple and cost effective cloud-based solution to help them expand services, increase performance and better serve their constituents. Opening access to information, while reducing response time and personnel overhead, sits at the core of both their strategies. The Florida Department of Health, [...]
According to Lagan, a provider of government CRM and ECM solutions, the company launched an integration toolkit for its customers utilizing Open 311 solutions. Governments in the US, Canada, and Great Britain will be able to integrate service requests via social media networks, mobile applications and third-party websites, the company said Monday.
Allegheny County, Pennsylvania and Tyler Technologies have agreed to a $8.2 million deal for 2012 reassessment services, the company announced last week. Pennsylvania’s second largest county will upgrade their current Tyler software with GIS integration and hand-held devices for county workers.
According to a request for proposal (RFP) issued earlier this month, the City of Memphis, Tennessee is looking to extend an outsourcing contract for its IT infrastructure and Application Maintenance and Support (AM&S) services. The deal could be worth more than $35 million over five years, with two one-year options. The five-year base contract could [...]