Regionalization / Consolidation

News Features

• e.Republic's Center for Digital Government Names 2008 Top Web Portals and Applications
  

  The most innovative, user-friendly state and local government portals plus outstanding agency and department Web sites and applications.

• Georgia Consolidates Procurement
  

  State plans to provide a more competitive environment for suppliers to vie for state contracts and a preferential position on its eprocurement network.

• South Carolina Builds Enterprise Social Services Information Dashboard
  

  "We have massive data sitting in government computers that represent pieces of the puzzle. If you put it together we can better understand our children, and our parents and us as humans."

• City of Philadelphia Receives GIS Award
  

  The city built a spatial data warehouse in 2000, followed by enterprise geospatial Web services in 2001.

• Texas "Blue Alert" System to Help Apprehend Suspects in Attacks on Officers
  

  "A powerful tool that leverages the eyes and ears of many toward the apprehension of criminals who threaten our protectors."

• Regional Law Enforcement Data Exchange System Expands
  

  "Individually, none of our towns can afford the number of police needed to keep track of all the activities of an increasingly mobile population of offenders."

• Austin CIO Pete Collins Resigns Amid Investigation
  

  Collins' resignation ends probe into possible improper use of city property.

• Michigan Garners Most Finalists in 2008 NASCIO Awards Program
  

  "State information technology best practices should be promoted and shared."

• Government Should Focus on Data Feeds, not Web Sites, Researchers Say
  

  Agencies should use XML to feed innovative third-party sites, paper recommends.

• CIOs and Elected Officials: Strategies for Better Communications
  

  CIOs must engage politicians in regular conversations on IT.

White Papers / Case Studies

• Georgia Consolidates Procurement
  

  State plans to provide a more competitive environment for suppliers to vie for state contracts and a preferential position on its eprocurement network.

• South Carolina Builds Enterprise Social Services Information Dashboard
  

  "We have massive data sitting in government computers that represent pieces of the puzzle. If you put it together we can better understand our children, and our parents and us as humans."

• Texas "Blue Alert" System to Help Apprehend Suspects in Attacks on Officers
  

  "A powerful tool that leverages the eyes and ears of many toward the apprehension of criminals who threaten our protectors."

• Michigan Garners Most Finalists in 2008 NASCIO Awards Program
  

  "State information technology best practices should be promoted and shared."

• Virginia Launches Easy Access Site for Seniors, Disabled
  

  Part of the commonwealth's No Wrong Door initiative.

• Cloud Computing: Public-Sector Opportunities Emerge
  

  Public CIOs analyze the benefits and risks of cloud computing.

• Coalition of Geospatial Organizations Announces Formation
  

  "We intend to begin immediately developing a collaborative advocacy agenda and aggressively pursuing those issues on which we can all agree."

• Washington Re-Launches MyVote Site
  

  Displays only the candidates and ballot measures that apply to the individual voter.

• Where's the Data? GIS Helps Answer Enterprise Questions, Says NASCIO
  

  "GIS is really a portfolio of capabilities that extends across the enterprise."

• Enterprise IT Governance Project Launched in New York
  

  To engage key stakeholders such as the NYS Chief Information Officers (CIO) Council, which represents approximately 87 CIOs from state and local agencies.

Best Practices

• Georgia Consolidates Procurement
  

  State plans to provide a more competitive environment for suppliers to vie for state contracts and a preferential position on its eprocurement network.

• South Carolina Builds Enterprise Social Services Information Dashboard
  

  "We have massive data sitting in government computers that represent pieces of the puzzle. If you put it together we can better understand our children, and our parents and us as humans."

• Texas "Blue Alert" System to Help Apprehend Suspects in Attacks on Officers
  

  "A powerful tool that leverages the eyes and ears of many toward the apprehension of criminals who threaten our protectors."

• Michigan Garners Most Finalists in 2008 NASCIO Awards Program
  

  "State information technology best practices should be promoted and shared."

• Virginia Launches Easy Access Site for Seniors, Disabled
  

  Part of the commonwealth's No Wrong Door initiative.

• Cloud Computing: Public-Sector Opportunities Emerge
  

  Public CIOs analyze the benefits and risks of cloud computing.

• Coalition of Geospatial Organizations Announces Formation
  

  "We intend to begin immediately developing a collaborative advocacy agenda and aggressively pursuing those issues on which we can all agree."

• Washington Re-Launches MyVote Site
  

  Displays only the candidates and ballot measures that apply to the individual voter.

• Where's the Data? GIS Helps Answer Enterprise Questions, Says NASCIO
  

  "GIS is really a portfolio of capabilities that extends across the enterprise."

• Enterprise IT Governance Project Launched in New York
  

  To engage key stakeholders such as the NYS Chief Information Officers (CIO) Council, which represents approximately 87 CIOs from state and local agencies.

Member News

Hyland Software Acquires Liberty Information Management Systems

Hyland Software, the developer of the OnBase enterprise content management (ECM) software suite, today announced that the company has acquired Liberty Information Management Systems (Liberty IMS).

State of Minnesota Signs Agreement with Microsoft for Single Email System

The State of Minnesota has signed an agreement with Microsoft to provide a single email and calendaring system for the entire executive branch.

Microsoft and Illinois State Police Collaborate on Best Practices and Information Technology Architecture for Homeland Security Fusion Centers

Architecture to be a model for agencies and departments across all jurisdictions.

Digital Communities Members