COMMITTEES | State and Local Collaboration Working Group
About | Background | Goals and Objectives | Roster
About the Committee
The State and Local Collaboration Working Group was chartered by NASCIO, under the auspices of the Enterprise Architecture and Governance Program. The purpose of this working group is to inventory, assess and promote state and local government collaboration concerning IT initiatives, shared services and common solutions. A premise of the working group is that public IT organizations must take advantage of different models to work jointly to provide outcomes for citizens at the state, local and federal level. NASCIO is very pleased to be working in collaboration with the Public Technology Institute (www.pti.org) on this important initiative.
Background
Budgets are continuing to drive the priorities for state CIOs, and a key strategy for cost containment or reduction is the sharing of resources through collaboration.
Additionally, citizen demand for streamlined, efficient government often drives state agencies to seek out opportunities to deliver traditional services in non-traditional ways. Engaging in state-local government collaboration is often viewed as a means to achieve the following:
- Cost reduction and savings
- Establishing relationships between organizations
- Providing increased or better services to citizens
- Access to shared technology and services
- Streamlining procurement processes and speeding transactions
- Improving information-sharing and quality
- Leveraging enterprise solutions
- Sharing risk
- Addressing fiscal constraints
Moving into the future, state and local governments have the opportunity to identify common areas of need and develop collaborative shared solutions across broader communities. This will require careful evaluation of jurisdictional requirements, strategic intent, and organizational processes leading to the pursuit of common business processes, common data, and common IT services.
This approach may be termed optimization and will entail examining existing best practices, standards and frameworks to uncover best practices and IT services that can be shared across jurisdictions.
Goals and Objectives
Committee deliverables may include 1) an inventory of cross-boundary collaboration activities and identification of local, state, federal and nonprofit organization best practices; 2) a report that identifies high-value best practices in cross-boundary collaboration, 3) collaborative initiative case studies that examine problems addressed, structures, governance models, implementation steps, costs and benefits, outcomes achieved and lessons learned, and 4) presentation of findings at the NASCIO Annual Conference.
Staff contact: Eric Sweden
Phone: (859) 514-9189
E-mail: esweden@amrms.com
Committee Roster
Co-Chair:David Behen, State of Michigan |
Co-Chair:Chuck Fredrick, City of Denver |
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David Ballard, CenturyLink Dave Barber, Software AG Matt Behrens, State of Iowa Marguerite Beirne, Westchester County NY DeLaine Bender, NASCIO Claudia Boldman, Commonwealth of Massachusetts Annette Bray, IBM Guy Clinch, Avaya Inc Pat Cummens, ESRI Glenn Davidson, KPMG LLP Justin Dew, ActivIdentity Mark Dixon, IBM Mr. Tim Durniak, IBM Tom Fletcher, State of South Carolina Liz Fossett, NASCIO Tiziana Galeazzi, State of Michigan John Glennon, Commonwealth of Massachusetts Sherri Hammons, State of Colorado Carol Henton, TechAmerica Richard Hillyard, Fujitsu Network Communications Chris Holmes, IBM Michael Kerr, TechAmerica Jeff Konishi, City of Englewood John Letchford, Commonwealth of Massachusetts Melanie Meador, Deloitte Consulting LLP Dr. Jerry Mechling, Gartner Inc. |
Linda Misegadis, Kronos Inc. Barry Moultrie, L-3 STRATIS Chris Neff, NIC Todd Olson, State of Colorado Paulina Orlikowski, HP Andris Ozols, State of Michigan Carolyn Parnell, State of Minnesota Mr. Ronald Partridge, Symantec Safouen Rabah, Socrata Mark Raymond, State of Connecticut Dante Ricci, SAP Public Services Charles Robb, NASCIO Doug Robinson, NASCIO Lauren Sallata, Xerox Bill Schrier, City of Seattle Cynthia Shackelford, State of Oklahoma Dr. Alan Shark, Public Technology Institute Ms. Amy M Smith, HP Morey Sullivan, Alexander Open Systems Eric Sweden, NASCIO Bulent Taskan, Windstream Lorrie Tritch, State of Iowa Greg Wass, Cook County Government Rick Webb, Accenture Mark Wiggins, Deloitte Consulting LLP |
