"We are moving aggressively forward with making Kentucky a national leader in e-Health, and we want the involvement of the state's health care, business and community leaders in the e-Health transformation."

"Composing, sending or receiving text messages while driving is extremely distracting and dangerous for drivers and puts everyone who is using the roadway at risk."

"These newly acquired technologies will serve as both valuable collaboration tools and cost-effective methods for effectively communicating with public health agencies in Kentucky ... This demonstrates just one way in which public health and our response partners will open up new ways to deliver training and response plans to multiple agencies statewide."

Reduces enterprise risk, operational burden, and technology cost.

To promote the need for a common framework, or architecture, and standards for information sharing at all levels of government.

Recognizes our success in using technology to simplify citizen access to official government information and services.

"Because state government agencies have not had much experience with e-Filing, risk reduction was at the top of our list of requirements. We took three steps to reduce risk: We adapted a known standard. We used a vendor who had already had success implementing e-Filing, and we relied heavily on internal staff for process flow design. Our users didn't have to change the way they worked."

Homeland Security's Secure Border Initiative Net Technology Program was identified as being both poorly planned and poorly performing.

National safety groups, NENA and COMCARE, call on DHS Disaster Management to lead the next- generation data standardization project.

Four states and Google make sure search engines can find government data.

Technology expands FBI's information resources.

"Arizona Health-e Connection has become a national model for state governments to develop public-private partnerships that encourage the use of electronic record systems."

Projects have included efforts to identify environmental health problems and to link, through standardization of electronic data elements, disparate sets of existing health data with data on environmental hazards.

"Our vision is interoperable electronic health records that will give doctors and nurses facts at their fingertips as they care for patients."

"First responders should be able to talk to each other on demand to support critical incident response, and I am dedicated to ensuring our state makes that happen."

Oct. 15-19 in Arizona and Oregon, and the U.S. territory of Guam; participants from all levels of government, international partners and the private sector in a full-scale, simulated response to radiological dispersal device attacks.  

"The Internet is an innovative force that opens up the vast potential economic and social benefits of electronic commerce. Preventing the taxation of Internet access will help sustain an environment for innovation, ensure that consumers continue to have affordable access to the Internet, especially high-speed Internet, and strengthen the foundations of electronic commerce as a vital and growing part of our economy."

If states are considered laboratories for democracy, then state CIOs are the lab directors of digital government.