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Top StoriesRecognition Awards Finalists
To promote the innovative ideas and best practices from all of the award submissions, NASCIO has developed the Recognition Awards Archive which includes examples from the last 10 years of the program. Visit www.nascio.org/awards/archive.cfm to search the collection by keyword or browse by year and category. Join us in congratulating the 2010 recognition award finalists: Cross Boundary Collaboration & Partnerships State of Arkansas - Universal Financial Aid Management System Data, Information & Knowledge Management State of Michigan - K-20 Improvement Project Digital Government: Government to Business State of California - Leafy Green Inspection Tracking System Digital Government: Government to Citizen State of California - C-IV: Providing Californians Accurate and Efficient Access to Health and Social Service Benefits Digital Government: Government to Government State of California - Water Information System (WINS): Improving the Efficiency and Transparency of Water Billing Enterprise IT Management Initiatives State of Michigan - Business One-Stop Improving State Operations State of Florida - MyFloridaMarketPlace Information Communications Technology Innovations State of Colorado - Ahead of Its Time: The Colorado Statewide Digital Trunked Radio System Open Government Initiatives State of Colorado - Online Transparency Initiatives Risk Management Initiatives State of Michigan - The Government Cloud Protection Program: Disaster Recovery Services Transformed for the Perfect Storm These projects will be featured at the Annual Conference during the Best Practices Lunch on Monday, September 27. One project in each category will be named the award recipient at the State Dinner later that evening. Profiles of Progress: State Health IT Initiative
State CIOs Promote Business Innovation and Request ReformIn a study released by NASCIO, TechAmerica and Grant Thornton, state CIOs emphasized the need to upgrade IT governance and strengthen central IT organizations in order to achieve goals for enhanced services and new efficiencies under tightened budgets. Facing the expectation of lower IT budgets and increased demands for new IT-enabled services, CIOs are consolidating applications and data centers, rolling out shared services and managed services models, and embracing emerging technologies, such as cloud computing and social media. Key challenges facing the CIOs are IT governance, in which they often find an imbalance between accountability and authority, IT portfolio management, and procurement processes. In the 60% of states that have an active portfolio management methodology in place, CIOs gave those processes a middling "C" grade. Likewise, procurement processes were found wanting, as most state CIOs see the need for reforms that will align state IT procurement with commercially oriented contracting practices. The survey addresses CIO views on IT portfolio management, IT investments and budgets, statewide IT business models, procurement, project management practices, and emerging technologies. A full copy of the survey is available via the following link: www.nascio.org/publications/surveys.cfm. Annual Conference UpdatesInnovation and Opportunity: Transforming Government through IT NASCIO's 2010 Annual Conference will be held September 26-29 at the Lowes Miami Beach Hotel in Miami Beach, Fla. Visit the conference website for the most up-to-date information. Hotel rooms are booking up fast! Keynotes/Session Topics - On Monday, September 27, learn "What Makes the Great Ones Great" in a keynote address from Don Yaeger, New York Times bestselling author and long-time associate editor of Sports Illustrated. Afterward, join us for interactive Discovery Discussions on place-based decision-making, cyber security, and social media. In the afternoon hear from our experts during panel discussions on multi-state initiatives and cloud computing. The Tuesday, September 28 program begins with our headline panel, "Transforming Services: Private Sector Lessons for Government," where you will hear insights from executive leaders of three corporate member companies. Then participate in one of the Discovery Discussion sessions exploring data center design, the upcoming gubernatorial transition, and IT sourcing trends. After lunch there will be plenary panels on smart and sustainable government and the CIO-state budget officer relationship. Be sure to join us for two dynamic discussions on Wednesday, September 29. To kick the morning off, we'll present an interactive session with noted IT Futurist Thornton May. Sit side by side with your colleagues from the public and private sector to discuss the linkages between analysis of real-time, insightful data and innovation. Our final session will explore "Leadership in Tough Times: Implications for the Transition" with representatives from federal, state and local governments. Sponsorship deadline is August 31. Find Your Place in the Sun by clicking here to secure your sponsorship. Win a $20 Starbucks Gift Card - Visit the Virtual Resource Center to view the latest research and thought leadership from NASCIO's Annual Conference sponsors. Simply click on a sponsor logo to see what that company is presenting, or look information up by topic. The resource center is easily searchable by keyword, so you can find exactly the right information you're looking for at http://bit.ly/NASCIOAnnualConfVRC. We will have a weekly drawing for a $20 Starbucks gift card for visitors who access a whitepaper in the resource center. The last drawing will be on September 22. Remember to check back frequently - additional sponsor materials will be added to the resource center regularly. The more you read, the more chances you get - enter as many times as you like. Watch on WashingtonOn Capitol HillThe House and Senate have adjourned for the August recess. The two chambers are scheduled to return September 14. The House and Senate left without completing a great deal of businesses. However, the House did come back temporarily from their recess to pass the state aid package, which rescinded $302 million from the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP) to offset expenditures in the bill. Both chambers will be busy when they return in the fall to pass a number of measures from the 13 fiscal 2011 appropriations bills, which range from to small business tax legislation to deciding whether to extend the tax cuts. The House and Senate are expected to adjourn in October for last minute campaigning, returning after the election for a lame duck session. Telecommunications Providers Objecting to State Fees on VOIPTelecommunication companies sent a letter to the Federal Communication Commission urging the commission not to subject voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) to state fees for the Universal Service Fund. Currently, states are prohibited from collecting fees for VoIP. Nebraska and Kansas have petitioned the FCC for a ruling to allow states to collect fees on VoIP services. The FCC is expected to make a decision soon.D-Block UpdateOn August 5, Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Chairman Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) introduced legislation (S 3756) that would direct the FCC to reallocate D block back to public safety. The Public Safety Spectrum and Wireless Innovation Act would establish a framework for the development of a nationwide interoperable public safety network. S 3756 would also provide funding for construction and maintenance of the network by authorizing the FCC to conduct incentive auctions whereby current spectrum licensees would voluntarily give up spectrum in exchange for a portion of the proceeds of a commercial auction. Additionally, the legislation would direct the FCC to establish standards that allow public safety officials, when not using the network, to lease capacity on a secondary, but preemptible basis to non-public safety entities, including other governmental users and commercial users. Finally, the bill requires the Government Accountability Office to produce a report every two years on the current capabilities of fixed and mobile satellite broadband to assist public safety entities as well as direct the General Services Administration to draft rules so public safety agencies could access services and equipment under the same rates afforded federal agencies. Senator Rockefeller has announced plans to consider the Public Safety Spectrum and Wireless Innovation Act when Congress returns in September. However, the Obama Administration has put together a task force on public safety interoperability to examine the technical and legal issues surrounding the FCC's proposal to allow priority roaming onto commercial networks. NASCIO has been invited by the task force to participate in the forum in September to address key issues related to the development and deployment of a national public safety broadband network. Topics for discussion include operational requirements, funding, standards, spectrum requirements, and governance for the network. NASCIO will continue to follow this issue. Reclassification of BroadbandThe fight continues between broadband providers and public interest groups over reclassification of broadband. Four senior members of Congress wrote FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski strongly urging him to take regulatory action to preserve the openness of the Internet. Members of Congress are split about reclassification and 17 governors have submitted letters to the FCC regarding reclassification. Reclassification could be on the agenda at the next monthly FCC meeting on September 23. The tentative agenda will be released in early September. Newly Released ReportsNTIA's Notice on State Broadband Data and Development Grant Program Progress Report FCC Seeks Public Comment on National Broadband Plan Recommendation to Create a Cybersecurity Roadmap FCC Seeks Public Input for Next Broadband Deployment Report Recovery Act: Further Opportunities Exist to Strengthen Oversight of Broadband Stimulus Programs NTIA's Federal Register Notice: Cybersecurity, Innovation and the Internet Economy Cyberspace: United States Faces Challenges in Addressing Global Cybersecurity and Governance NASCIO In The News
CIO TransitionsJim Burns has left his position and Jack Doane is the new director and CIO for Alabama.
Mike Gwartney, director of the Department of Administration for Idaho, retired on July 31. Chief Deputy Teresa Luna took over his post on an interim basis. Anne Margulies, assistant secretary and CIO of Massachusetts accepted a new position as the CIO for Harvard University. Deputy CIO John Letchford is now serving as the acting CIO. Members In The News
ARIZONAChad Kirkpatrick, Arizona CIO, discussed e-mail consolidation with Government Technology.
NEW YORKMelodie Mayberry-Stewart, New York CIO, is providing innovative state government services to citizens and businesses.
NORTH CAROLINAJerry Fralick, North Carolina CIO, and Gov. Bev Perdue are considering consolidating IT outsourcing as a way to improve the state's technology infrastructure.
OREGONDugan Petty, Oregon CIO, uses social networking tools to boost collaboration and save time.
UTAHStephen Fletcher, Utah CIO, believes federal agencies can serve as models for insurance exchanges.
VIRGINIASam Nixon, Virginia CIO, tries to fix the state's IT outsourcing efforts.New MembersNASCIO would like to welcome HCL Technologies, PAETEC, Salesforce.com and Tata Consultancy Services as new corporate members and the City of Battle Creek (Mich.) as a new associate member.Committee & Work Group UpdatesThe Enterprise Architecture and Governance Committee will be hosting the next presentation in the Best Practices and Innovations series August 24 from 2:00 - 3:00 pm ET. "New York City Connect Initiative - Standards Based Information Exchange within State Health and Human Services" will present the New York City Strategy for Information Sharing and how it has guided the design and implementation of collaborative information exchanges. This forum is open to all NASCIO members. Register now! The Enterprise Architecture and Governance Committee and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) are finalizing their joint research brief, "DO YOU THINK? OR DO YOU KNOW? PART II, The EA Value Chain, The Strategic Intent Domain, and Principles." The Enterprise Architecture and Governance Committee is currently working on an issue brief and survey related to the national information exchange model (NIEM). More details will be available soon. The Executive Committee appointed Montana CIO Dick Clark to the committee. He will fulfill the remaining term of Mike Locatis. The Health IT Working Group is continuing its analysis of the Patient Protect and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (PPACA). Examination and analysis of the PPACA and Health Care Education and Reconciliation Act of 2010 will identify the implications of these new laws and provide IT solutions for exchanges, web portals and expanded program areas. The State Digital Identity Working Group hosted two all-states calls in August and is now planning for a state member workshop that will be held prior to the NASCIO Annual Conference. The workshop is scheduled for September 26 from 9:00 am - 11:30 am and will focus on the imperative of digital identity in the states. Members of the State Identity, Credentialing, and Access Management (SICAM) Subgroup continue to meet as part of document development sessions for a SICAM Roadmap. The working group anticipates that a straw-man for the SICAM Roadmap will be available for state members to review at the workshop in September. NASCIO: Making ConnectionsSteve Fletcher, NASCIO president and Utah CIO, spoke August 18 to the National Center for State Courts about NASCIO's enterprise architecture and governance program. Doug Robinson, NASCIO executive director, spoke on a panel at the joint annual meeting of CoSA, NAGARA, and SAA, which took place August 11-12 in Washington, D.C. Eric Sweden, NASCIO senior enterprise architect, spoke at the Texas Association of State Systems for Computing and Communications (TASSCC) conference in Dallas Texas on August 4. The presentation, "Do You Think or Do You Know?" explored business intelligence and business analytics. Doug Robinson attended the IJIS Institute Industry Briefing, July 29-August 1 in Ft. Myers, Fla. Kyle Schafer, NASCIO vice president and West Virginia CTO, represented NASCIO at the National Association of State Chief Administrators (NASCA) conference August 15-17 in Atlanta, Ga. Mark Your CalendarUpcoming Committee Calls
Corporate Member Partner ProfilesEach month, NASCIO will randomly draw three corporate members to be featured in the monthly newsletter. To view a complete list of NASCIO's corporate partners, click here.Apple
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NASCIO's Recognition Awards program celebrates its 22nd consecutive year with the announcement of 33 outstanding projects as finalists for 2010. To select these honorees, the Awards Committee, chaired by Nebraska CIO Brenda Decker and North Carolina CIO Jerry Fralick, evaluated more than 130 nominations from 30 states. Emphasis was placed on recognizing initiatives that exemplify best practices, support the public policy goals of state leaders, assist government officials innovatively executing their duties, and provide cost-effective service to citizens.
As government leaders increasingly support health IT as a means to improve patient care and reduce costs, it is increasingly imperative that states implement an enterprise-wide architecture for the statewide exchange of health information. A new compendium by NASCIO's Health IT Working Group, Profiles of Progress 4: Health IT Initiatives, documents how states are responding to the challenge. The compendium analyzes what role, if any, the state CIO is playing in these efforts. The report is available for download at 
