Regionalization / Consolidation

DC Features

• Bad Economy, Green IT and Web 2.0 Shape 2008 IT Trends
  CIOs grapple with work force turnover, budget prioritization and collaborative applications.
  
• Baton Rouge, La., Boosts Interoperability with Regional Approach
  Officials tackled interoperability for emergency response after hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
  
• Cloud Computing: Public-Sector Opportunities Emerge
  Public CIOs analyze the benefits and risks of cloud computing.
  
• Enterprise Mobility Now Quantifiably Shown to Drive Workforce Flexibility
  Report shows that enterprise mobility solutions have a measurable impact on workforce flexibility, employee responsiveness, and ability to gain knowledge and data from others.
• Shared Interests
  COMMONS Project seeks to distribute data about the Internet and solve broadband crises among underserved communities.
• Sustaining the Municipal Wireless Network
  What is a sensible approach to creating the sustainable municipal network business model?
  
  
• Singapore Wi-Fi Deployment Offers Best Practices for Municipalities Worldwide
  Careful planning and flexible, modular infrastructure simplify countrywide wireless rollout.
• What Is the Digital Economy?
  The second in our series of excerpts from Digital Prosperity, a new report from the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation. Here the authors seek to define the digital economy, noting that IT has been the key factor responsible for reversing the 20-year productivity slowdown and today is driving our robust productivity growth.
• Abandoning Net Neutrality Discourages Improvements in Service
  Charging online content providers such as Yahoo! and Google for preferential access to the customers of Internet service providers not in the best interest of the millions of Americans.
• Toward a Wireless World
  A look at wireless trends and innovations in local governments by the staff of Government Technology magazine in association with the Center for Digital Government.

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DC US News

• Report: Interoperability Requires Improvements in Governance
  "IT governance can be viewed as a sorting process used to respond to an ongoing stream of demands and opportunities for IT development and use.
  
• Michigan Digital Government Summit Presents Excellence in Technology Awards
  For leadership, project management, visionary ability, applications, collaboration and innovation.
  
• CTG Releases National Survey of Cross-Boundary Information Sharing
  Part of a long-term project to understand how governments share information across program, agency and jurisdictional boundaries as they work to improve programs and services.
  
• NASCIO Receives DOJ Grant for State-Level Justice Information Sharing
  "This grant will make it possible to continue our work in data architecture, information sharing and the leveraging of the National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) across state government."
  
• Recommendations to New York State on IT Governance
  Five recommendations for enterprise IT investment.
  
• Local Government RSS Feeds, Wikis Catch On
  "Web 2.0 tools provide local governments with additional means of communicating with constituents."
  
• NASCIO Report on Health IT Urges State CIO Involvement
  "The HITECH Act effectively blended health policy with technology policy, and state CIOs are uniquely positioned to help shape these policies in the future to align with their state's enterprise architecture."
  

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DC International News

• U.S. Lags Behind in Health IT, Says Study
  "This isn't high school -- it's okay to copy from your neighbors."
  
• Man-Made Crises 'Outrunning Our Ability to Deal With Them', Scientists Warn
  The world faces a compounding series of crises driven by human activity, which existing governments and institutions are increasingly powerless to cope with, a group of eminent environmental scientists and economists has warned.
  
• American Samoa Governor Meets on Call Centers, Other Matters
  "We are asking ... to allow American Samoa to be a part of any U.S. State Department delegation as an ‘observer' in any or all Pacific regional meetings."
  
• Russian Government IT Development Strategy: Free and Open Source Software
  "The most promising developments in RFOSS must be selected and then we must focus on them."
  
• Global Standards Symposium Meets in Johannesburg
  Technology leaders call for clarity in standards landscape.
  
• EU Parliament votes for Single European Telecom Market
  "This will level the playing field for telecoms operators in Europe, enhance legal certainty, and broaden consumer choice."
  
• INET Africa Speaks to Critical Need for African Interconnection
  "Where countries and networks are separated by lack of interconnectivity."
  

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