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State CIOs Wrap Up Successful D.C. Fly-in
NASCIO held its annual Fly-In on May 9, and experienced record member participation from the states and territories attending a diverse array of briefings and meetings. NASCIO members represented 39 states and the territories of Guam and American Samoa.
The NASCIO delegation spent their time working and meeting with federal agencies, strategic partner associations and congressional members and staff on a multitude of key issues currently under consideration by Congress and President Obama's administration. The Department of Homeland Security arranged a classified cyber security briefing with the National Security Agency (NSA) for state CIOs only. The U.S. Federal CIO Steve Van Roekel hosted the second joint NASCIO-Federal CIO Council Meeting to discuss opportunities for collaboration surrounding digital government strategy and shared priorities. The delegation also met with key NASCIO partners to discuss issues ranging from health care reform implementation to building out the public safety broadband network. Some NASCIO members also met with representatives of their state delegation to discuss the how states are affected by cybersecurity legislation and the role state government plays in this important issue.
NASCIO President Dugan Petty said, "The 2012 Fly-In was extremely successful. The opportunity to meet face-to-face with members of Congress, administration officials and key strategic partner associations to discuss key policy and regulatory issues that impact state CIOs is priceless. Each and every one of these discussions advances the interests of state CIOs and enhances NASCIO's reputation in our nation's capital."
NASCIO Releases Guidance Report on MITA 3.0
In response to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services release of Medicaid Information Technology Architecture (MITA) 3.0, the NASCIO Health Care Working Group has formulated guidance for states to navigate Medicaid IT transformation to achieve lower costs, better health outcomes, and system interoperability. NASCIO continues to be an advocate for enterprise solutions and views the MITA framework as a way state CIOs can decouple legacy systems and break down existing silos in state government. The report, A Golden Opportunity for Medicaid IT Transformation: State CIOs and the MITA Framework, is now available at www.nascio.org/publications/researchBriefs.cfm.
NASCIO Presents Dr. Alan Shark with Prestigious Technology Award
NASCIO has awarded Alan Shark, chief executive officer and executive director of the Public Technology Institute, with the association's 2012 NASCIO Technology Champion (NTC) award. Shark received recognition for his outstanding contributions in promoting government performance excellence through sound IT solutions, policies and practice. The award was presented during the NASCIO Midyear Conference in Baltimore, Md.
"This is a fantastic award and I hope not only to live up to my past achievements – but also to look to the immediate future by re-energizing efforts to foster innovative ways to better collaborate across all levels of government," said Dr. Alan Shark.
Capitals in the Clouds: On Mission and Means
This month, NASCIO released a fourth report in its series on cloud computing, Capitals in the Clouds: On Mission and Means. Available at www.nascio.org/publications, the brief focuses on the key security concerns faced by state CIOs and their security staff, as they incorporate the cloud service delivery model into the tools they employ to support state services and protect and maintain state data. The brief also discusses states' initial cloud projects and emphasizes that engaging external cloud services involves significant risks if new services have not been properly vetted by state security staff or are over-sold on the basis of misunderstood requirements.
Submit a Nomination for NASCIO's 2012 Recognition Awards before Time Runs Out
The deadline is quickly approaching to submit a nomination for the 2012 State IT Recognition Awards. The deadline to apply is June 4, 2012. For details, including the categories and eligibility, visit www.nascio.org/awards/2012awards/index.cfm.
NASCIO's State IT Recognition Awards will honor outstanding state IT projects that exemplify best practices, support public policy goals of state leaders, assist government officials in innovatively executing their duties and provide cost-effective services to citizens. NASCIO state and territory members may submit one project in each of the ten categories. Projects are judged on innovation, significance and overall benefit. Two finalists and one award recipient will be named for each category and announced at the 2012 Annual Conference in San Diego, Calif.
MIDYEAR CONFERENCE RECAP
Midyear Conference Sponsor Resource Center
Representatives from 47 states and territories and more than 100 partner organizations gathered May 8-11 for the NASCIO Midyear Conference in Baltimore. The Programs Committee did an excellent job of planning the conference, according to the evaluation results. The comments below sum up many of the comments received.
The conference was a great forum to share ideas and build new relationships and strengthen others, and reinforced what huge value NASCIO brings to state CIOs. The whole truly is greater than the sum of the parts. The conference also ended on a very strong note with three excellent sessions including the very fascinating "CIO Edge" presentation. -John Letchford, Commonwealth of Massachusetts CIO
The NASCIO Midyear Conference was a great opportunity to receive federal presentations and briefings directly from our federal partners. The value of doing that in a setting that allowed me to analyze the information with other state CIOs and our corporate partners gave me the opportunity to really understand the information that we received. -Brenda L. Decker, State of Nebraska CIO
If you missed out on a presentation at the conference or would like to revisit one, you can find it at www.nascio.org/events/2012midyear/Resources.cfm. Check out the conference and D.C. Fly-In photo slideshow at www.nascio.org/events/2012midyear/. The Midyear Conference Sponsor Resource Center will remain open until the end of May. Access the wealth of resources provided by conference sponsors at www.nascio.org/events/2012Midyear/src.cfm. 
Additionally, this was the first year we participated in a "give back" program to benefit the local community. Thanks to everyone who made donations to Digital Harbor High School. With your help, we exceeded our goal and presented the school with a check for $1,785 to support the technology certification testing.
"We are honored that NASCIO chose to donate time and money to help our students take technology industry standard certification exams," said Bryan Eyer, principal for the Digital Harbor High School. "The very generous donations will go far in helping students achieve their goals. Thank you so much for your generosity. More students will have the opportunity to take and pass their industry level exams because of you."
Stay Connected in the NASCIO Community
Do you have great ideas for programming at the NASCIO Annual Conference? If so, you can join the discussion in the Programs Committee forum on the NASCIO Community. Contribute your ideas and you can help shape the Annual Conference in San Diego, October 21-24. Congratulations to the top five most engaged members in the NASCIO Community this month:
- Tim Brett, Deltek
- Sanjeev "Sonny" Bhagowalia, State of Hawai'i
- Allyson Brewer, State of Louisiana
- Todd Crosby, State of Hawai'i
- Steve Siegler, State of Missouri
Recognition Awards Spotlight
This month, the spotlight is on the State of Oregon, which was recognized in the category Open Government Initiatives in the 2011 NASCIO State IT Recognition Awards.
Spotlight Project: The First Citizen Social Interactive State Data Portal
"We greatly appreciate NASCIO's recognition of Data.Oregon.gov as the 2011 Open Government Initiatives Award Recipient," said Sean McSpaden, Oregon Deputy State Chief Information Officer. "Ultimately, we believe data.oregon.gov will help increase government transparency and encourage public participation and collaboration with Oregon government. To have our efforts recognized by our peers in other states was truly an honor and affirmed that Oregon's transparency and open government initiatives are headed in the right direction."
Events of Interest
iHT2 Health IT Summit
June 12-13, Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
Register for the iHT² Health IT Summit and hear from national thought leaders on proven strategies for aligning IT strategies with business strategies as well as discovering best practices for securing ePHI, HIE models and implementing mobile health initiatives. Learn more at http://ihealthtran.com/fortlauderdalehome.html.
Meet our newest members:
- Infor Global Solutions, Inc. (Corporate Member)
Committee & Work Group Updates
Brian H. Cameron, Ph.D., executive director for the Center for Enterprise Architecture at the Pennsylvania State University, and president of the Federation of Enterprise Architecture Professional Organization (FEAPO), spoke on the Enterprise Architecture and Governance Committee earlier this month. Dr. Cameron presented an overview of the bachelors and master programs in enterprise architecture, and FEAPO.
The Health Care Working Group will host a call on May 30, which will include a presentation from Meredith Taylor from the Markle Foundation and Deven McGraw from the Center for Democracy and Technology.
The IT Procurement Modernization Committee continues to develop a series of short issue briefs on IT procurement. This series will seek to identify solutions to problems states run into during procurement and contracting. The committee plans to explore the topics of enterprise procurements and performance bonds in conjunction with TechAmerica.
The State Digital Identity Working Group continues the comment period on the SICAM Guidance and Roadmap. Volunteers have submitted comments to the SICAM draft that is posted on the NASCIO Community.
NASCIO received word late last week that Twitter had posted revised general terms of services (TOS) that exclude federal, state, local governments from the clauses relating to controlling law, jurisdiction, and venue. This follows conversations between Twitter legal staff, the NASCIO Social Media Legal Working Group, and the National Association of Attorneys General, during which state concerns about these sections of Twitter's terms were explained. The new language should be beneficial for the majority of states that have significant concerns about venue and controlling law; we urge those states to review the full Twitter TOS at http://twitter.com/tos.
YouTube has begun contacting state agencies that requested revised terms of service through NASCIO's Social Media Forum. As previously reported, the NASCIO Social Media Legal Working Group negotiations with YouTube were concluded earlier this year, and requests to use those terms have been received from several states. We urge states to continue forwarding requests to Liz Fossett (lfossett@amrms.com), utilizing the spreadsheet previously sent through the NASCIO Community.
Several Security and Privacy Committee members are currently serving as a survey review group for the 2012 Deloitte-NASCIO cyber security survey, to be issued in June 2012.
The State and Local Collaboration Working Group continues to focus on a best practice framework for describing state and local collaborative initiatives. Forward best practices to Eric Sweden at esweden@amrms.com.
NASCIO has re-chartered the State Connectivity and Broadband Working Group in order to assist states and CIOs in their analysis and planning of the public safety network. This is a result of the passage of the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act, in which Congress authorized development of a nationwide, interoperable public safety broadband network. Craig Orgeron, Mississippi CIO, and Darryl Ackley, New Mexico CIO, will co-chair this working group.
NASCIO: Making Connections
Doug Robinson, NASCIO executive director, joined senior administration officials and private sector leaders for a colloquium on the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC) on May 23 in Washington, D.C. NSTIC is President Obama's private sector-led and government-facilitated vision to make online transactions more trustworthy, secure, and privacy enhancing, giving consumers more confidence and enabling businesses to enhance customer relationships and to create innovative new products and services.
Robinson will moderate a panel at the XChange Public Sector Conference on June 6-8 in Charlotte, N.C. The State CIO panel will include John Letchford, Massachusetts CIO, Jonathon Womer, North Carolina CIO and Stu Davis, Ohio CIO.
Mark Your Calendar
Upcoming NASCIO Committee Calls and Meetings
- Health Care Working Group – Wednesday, May 30, at 3:00 pm Eastern
- State Digital Identity Working Group – Thursday, May 31, at 3:00 pm Eastern
- Executive Committee – Thursday, June 7, 3:30 pm Eastern
- State IT Procurement Modernization Committee – Wednesday, June 13, at 2:00 pm Eastern
- Awards Committee – Thursday, June 14, at 2:00 pm Eastern
- Security and Privacy Committee – Tuesday, June 19, at 1:00 pm Eastern
- Corporate Leadership Council – Wednesday, June 20, 3:00 pm Eastern
- Social Media Forum – Tuesday, June 26, at 2:00 pm Eastern
- Health Care Working Group – Wednesday, June 27, at 3:00 pm Eastern
- State Digital Identity Working Group – Thursday, June 28, at 3:00 pm Eastern
Corporate Member Partner Profiles
Each 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, visit www.nascio.org/aboutNASCIO/corpProfiles.e.Republic
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Contact: Cathilea Robinett |
Phone: (916) 932-1300 |
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| e.Republic, Inc. is the nation's leading publishing, research, event, and new media company focused on information technology for the state/local government and education markets. Serving government for over 20 years, e.Republic publishes the market's leading periodicals, holds the largest intergovernmental conferences in the nation and produces over 100 custom events annually, created "by government for government". |
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L-3 Stratis
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Contact: Barry Moultrie |
Phone: (703) 434-4316 |
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| STRATIS is the Information Technology Center of Excellence in L-3. Simply put STRATIS sets the standard for the delivery of Information Technology services by any L-3 division. We have been successfully serving State and Local governments, the Department of Defense, and federal civilian government agencies and with a broad range of IT services and solutions for more than 30 years. |
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Socrata
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Contact: Safouen Rabah |
Phone: (206) 340-8008 Ext 151 |
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| Leading federal, state and local governments have adopted Socrata's turnkey cloud-based Open Data solutions to transform their public data assets into a platform for economic development, efficient service delivery, citizen engagement and transparency. The Socrata Open Data Platform™ provides a universally-accessible, socially-enriched experience where citizens, developers and government employees can easily explore, visualize, share and reuse data, in the format and channel of their choice. |
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In This Issue
Other Events of Interest
Government Health IT Conference & Exhibition
June 11-12, 2012 – Washington, D.C.
iHT2 Health IT Summit
June 12-13, 2012 - Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
Security Industry Association Government Summit
June 19-20, 2012 – Washington, D.C.
National Association of State Budget Officers Annual Meeting
July 29 - August 1, 2012 - Providence, R.I.
iHT2 Health IT Summit
July 24-25, 2012 - Denver, Colo.
National Governor's Association Annual Meeting
July 13-15, 2012 - Williamsburg, Va.
iHT2 Health IT Summit
August 22-23, 2012 - Seattle, Wash.
National Health IT Week
September 10 - 14, 2012
iHT2 Health Technology Innovation & Investment Forum
September 19, 2012 - New York City, N.Y.
iHT2 Health IT Summit
September 19-20, 2012 - New York City, N.Y.
PTI Technology Leadership Conference
October 21-23, 2012 – San Diego, Calif.
NASCIO Annual Conference
October 21-24, 2012 – San Diego, Calif.
International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance
October 22-25, 2012 – Albany, N.Y.
iHT2 Health IT Summit
November 7-8, 2012 - Beverly Hills, Calif.
iHT2 Health IT Summit in Austin
December 5-6, 2012 - Austin, Texas
