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For immediate release: October 21, 2004
Contact: Beth Roszman
NASCIO Reports Findings from its Recent Nationwide Architecture Tour of the States
(Lexington, KY) - The National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) has released its Enterprise Architecture Assessment Tour Report to state CIOs and other officials. This resource can be downloaded at http://www.nascio.org/publications.
NASCIO's Architecture Working Group (AWG) conducted the assessment tour to facilitate the evaluation of government enterprise architecture programs and create opportunities for collaboration. The NASCIO Enterprise Architecture Maturity Model was used as the basis for evaluating the enterprise programs in ten states, one county, and one federal agency. This report summarizes the tour and presents some of the highlights from the presentations and discussions that took place during the assessment visits.
"NASCIO's Architecture Working Group visited 12 government sites and gained great insight into how enterprise architecture programs are actually working in state, federal and local government settings. The shared knowledge and discussions contained in the report will be of great value to government technology practioners. We plan to do additional visits during the next year," said Tom Jarrett, Delaware CIO and NASCIO president.
This report includes a list of lessons learned along with links to websites and NASCIO's SMART resource library which contain most of the documentation shared during these visits.
Funding for the project was provided by a grant from the U.S. Department of Justice, the Bureau of Justice Assistance, Office of Justice Programs.
NASCIO represents the state chief information officers from the 50 states, six U.S. territories and the District of Columbia. Members include cabinet and senior level state officials responsible for information resource management. Other IT officials participate as associate members and private sector representatives may become corporate members.
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For more information contact NASCIO Programs and Communications Coordinator Beth Roszman at (859) 514-9167, NASCIO Enterprise Information Architect Eric Sweden at (859) 514-9189, or NASCIO Program Manager Vince Havens at (859) 514-9215.
Association Management Resources, Inc. (AMR) provides NASCIO's executive staff. For more information about AMR visit http://www.amrinc.net/.
