• Top Stories
• NASCIO in the News
• Members in the News
• NASCIO on the Road
• Committee & Work Group Updates
• Mark Your Calendar

TOP STORIES

• 2007 NASCIO Recognition Awards Nominations Due June 6

  For the nineteenth consecutive year, NASCIO will honor outstanding information technology initiatives in the public sector through its Recognition Awards for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Information Technology. Projects may be submitted by any NASCIO state or territory member. Complete details about the 2007 award categories and submission criteria are available at http://www.nascio.org/awards/. The final deadline for nominations is Wednesday, June 6. Please contact Dianne Adams, NASCIO Programs Coordinator, at dadams@amrms.com with questions about the awards program.

• NASCIO Midyear Conference and 7th Annual DC Fly-In a Resounding Success

  State CIOs and officials from 41 states, along with representatives from over 100 related groups and companies, met in Chantilly, Virginia for the 2007 NASCIO Midyear Conference, May 1 - 4. The theme of the event was Technology - Enabling Government for Citizens, and the conference featured a wide variety of speakers and sessions. Digital audio files from Comptroller General David Walker's keynote address and several of the conference sessions are now posted on NASCIO's website. Also available are the interactive audience polling results and presentation slides from the conference. To access these resources, click here.

  NASCIO's 7th Annual DC Fly-In was held in conjunction with the 2007 Midyear Conference. The main issue for this year's Fly-In was Strengthening National Cybersecurity - State Homeland Security Program Funding. With record participation of 29 CIOs and policy officials taking part in nearly 60 meetings on Capitol Hill, this event was an effective tool to establish and strengthen relationships at the federal level and reinforce recognition of NASCIO as the primary resource for policy makers on state information technology policy and implementation.

• NASCIO Presents 5th Annual National Technology Champion Award

  During the Midyear Conference, NASCIO honored Cathilea Robinett, Executive Director of the Center for Digital Government with the annual National Technology Champion award in recognition of her outstanding contributions to advance public sector information technology initiatives. Through this award, NASCIO strives to acknowledge innovators who promote excellence in both technology and good government. Under Robinett's leadership the Center for Digital Government has developed a series of comprehensive longitudinal, national surveys to benchmark and track progress toward government modernization among political subdivisions. These efforts have created an IT knowledge base that is a leading resource to state and local government practitioners. For more information about Robinett and previous National Technology Champion award recipients, click here.

NASCIO In The News

Members In The News

• CIO Transitions

  ILLINOIS
  Doug Kasamis has been named CTO and Acting Deputy Director for the Bureau of Communications and Computer Services (BCCS), Department of Central Management Services for the State of Illinois. Kasamis, who has been employed with the state since October 2006, previously served as a Partner with Accenture's Strategy & Business Architecture service line, where he lead the company's Infrastructure Planning and Transformation practice.

  NEW YORK
  On April 20, Governor Eliot Spitzer and Lieutenant Governor David Paterson announced the appointment of Melodie Mayberry-Stewart to serve as the Chief Information Officer for the State of New York. Ms. Mayberry-Stewart has served as Chief Technology Officer for the city of Cleveland, Ohio since 2002. Please take the following link to view the official press release: www.ny.gov/governor/press/0420072.html.

  OREGON
  On April 10, Lindsay Ball, director of the Oregon Department of Administrative Services, announced the appointment of Dugan Petty as the department’s new Chief Information Officer. Petty, who has served as the department’s acting CIO since September 2006, will continue administering Oregon’s Enterprise Information Strategy and Policy Division (EISPD), which oversees planning and development of information systems for state government.

• Interviews with NASCIO Members featured on GTtv

  Three NASCIO members are currently featured as part of GTtv's Media Center video interviews.
  • PK Agarwal, Director of California's Department of Technology Services discusses the Value of Innovation
  • Clark Kelso, Chief Information Officer for the State of California talks about California IT Procurement
  • John Miri, Special Assistant to the CTO, State of Texas, discusses Technology in Texas

• Jarrett Named as ISE Mid-Atlantic Award Finalist

  Tom Jarrett, NASCIO Past President and CIO of Delaware, was named as one of the finalists for the Information Security Executive of the Year Mid-Atlantic Award 2007. The honor is awarded to a chief security officer or an executive in an equivalent position who has overall responsibility for risk management, data asset protection, regulatory compliance, privacy, and information security. Other finalists represented the higher education, banking and health insurance industries. Jarrett was the only state representative nominated in this region. For more information, click here.

• Missouri Named as Finalist for Two American Business Awards

  Missouri's Information Technology Consolidation Initiative has garnered national recognition and was named as a finalist in two categories for the 2007 American Business Awards. More than 2,000 entries from companies of all sizes and in virtually every industry were submitted for consideration in more than 40 categories. Missouri will be competing in the Best Information Technology Team and Executive categories. Winners will be announced on June 11. For more information and a complete list of finalists, click here.

  "Missouri is blessed with dedicated employees who work every day to make state government more efficient and effective for all Missourians. The Division of Information Services can be proud that their hard work and dedication has led to this great honor," stated Governor Matt Blunt.

• 2007 Intergovernmental Solutions Award Finalists Announced

  The American Council for Technology (ACT) announced the finalists for the 2007 ACT Intergovernmental Solutions Awards. Winners from federal, state and local government will be unveiled at an awards presentation on June 4 at the 27th Annual Management of Change Conference. More than 100 nominations were received for these awards and finalists were selected based on program criteria which included technology leadership, intergovernmental and collaboration, business transformation, available and transferable, and impact and results.

  The 2007 finalists in the state and local category are:

  • Alabama.gov Web Portal, State of Alabama, Department of Finance, Information Services Division
  • Integrated Forest Resource Information System (IFRIS), Virginia Department of Forestry
  • KY-CHILD (Kentucky - Certificate of Birth, Hearing, Immunization, & Lab Data), Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services
  • No Wrong Door Initiative, Virginia Department for the Aging
  • Possible Criminal History and Case and Criminal History (PCH/CACH), State of Washington Justice Information Network
  • Using Decision Support and Advanced Analytics for Innovative Fraud Detection, Michigan Department of Information Technology in partnership with the Michigan Department of Human Services
  • Virginia Performs, Council on Virginia's Future
  For more information, click here.

NASCIO on the Road

• NASCIO Executive Director Doug Robinson, and Enterprise Architect Eric Sweden along with state members Kristen Miller and James Dyche (Pennsylvania) participated in the Global Justice Advisory Committee (GAC) meeting held on April 18 in Arlington, Virginia. Topics covered at the April meeting included a review of Global's outreach efforts, a status update on the reference and guidance materials for implementing SOA, publication of recommendations and resources about privacy and discussions on improving collaborative information exchange, release of the next version of NIEM - Harmony, and forensics from an information sharing perspective. The meeting also featured keynote presentations by Regina Schofield, Assistant Attorney General, and Paul McNulty, Deputy Attorney General and a presentation on the State of Florida's implementation of projects leveraging Global's resources.
• NASCIO Vice President John Gillispie and Executive Director Doug Robinson attended the National Association of State Budget Officers (NASBO) Spring Meeting in Nashville, Tennessee on April 20. At the event Robinson presented an update on the States and Information Technology with a focus on disaster recovery planning. NASCIO's video, Government At Risk: Protecting Your IT Infrastructure, was featured as part of this presentation and copies were distributed to the state budget officers.
• Doug Robinson spoke at dg.o 2007, the 8th Annual International Digital Government Research Conference, Bridging Disciplines & Domains on May 21 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He participated on a panel entitled Bridging Research and Practice Domains: Lessons from the Field.
• Dianne Adams, NASCIO Programs Coordinator, will represent the association at the upcoming Governing Managing Technology Conference taking place May 30 - June 1 in Chicago, Illinois. The agenda for this event features a number of NASCIO members as speakers and moderators. NASCIO President Teri Takai (Michigan) will speak during the opening session and the breakfast symposium on Looming Challenges For IT Leaders: Are You Ready? Vice President John Gillispie (Iowa) will participate on the panel discussing Consolidation Challenges and will host and moderate a session on Wireless, Wi-Fi and Broadband. NASCIO Secretary/Treasurer Gopal Khanna (Minnesota) will participate on a panel about IT-Enabled Transformation as well as the discussion on Looming Challenges For IT Leaders.

  A number of additional NASCIO members are on the agenda.

  For information about this event or to view the complete agenda, click here.

Committee & Work Group Updates

• NASCIO's Corporate Leadership Council, which represents all corporate members, will conduct a survey of state CIOs regarding the landscape of the current and future state IT workforce. The aging of the public sector workforce is a well documented phenomenon that may significantly impact the way that states deliver IT services in the future. This survey is designed to gain insight into this issue and its effect on public policy from the view of the CIO. This survey is scheduled to be released on June 1.
• The Cross-Boundary Collaboration Committee will release Getting Started in Cross-Boundary Collaboration: What State CIOs Need to Know on May 23. This brief explores common threads throughout various types of collaborations, reasons and drivers behind collaboration, and considerations for state CIOs before collaborating.
• The Disaster Recovery Working Group will be publishing updated and expanded versions of the Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity checklists originally circulated at NASCIO's 2006 Midyear Conference CIO-CLC Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery Forum. These checklists will serve as a tool for state CIOs and IT officials to better prepare for IT system disruptions and catastrophic failures. Release of these updated checklists is anticipated in June.
• NASCIO's Enterprise Architecture Committee is finishing work on a series of research briefs about records management and digital preservation. The first issue in this series is anticipated for release in the next few weeks. This series will present and discuss the information life cycle, records management principles, organizational and legal issues, technology developments, and economic and enterprise architecture perspectives related to records management and digital preservation.

  At the Midyear Conference, the Enterprise Architecture Committee conducted a workshop to assist states that are interested in adapting the Federal Business Reference Model to state government. The workshop presented the value of the state version of the model, future directions, and guidance on how to get started. With over a dozen participants, representing seven different states and several national associations, this workshop was a great success.

• NASCIO's Infrastructure and Services Committee will produce a suite of deliverables around results from its recent data center consolidation survey. These products will include a research brief and template slide presentation that each of the states can use as a tool to help justify data center consolidation efforts within their IT enterprise. These resources are scheduled for release in July.
• The Health IT Working Group is continuing work on an issue brief that will explore the role of the state CIO in a RHIO. This brief will build on the Midyear Conference session, The RHIO Recipe: CIOs in the Mix. The audio of this session and the supporting presentation slides are available at www.nascio.org/events/2007Midyear/.
• The REAL ID Working Group provided insights and input regarding the content of the comments that NASCIO submitted to the US Department of Homeland on the REAL ID Notice of Proposed Rulemaking. These comments were due on May 8, 2007. NASCIO will continue to monitor this issue and address the technology implications of the REAL ID Act as directed by NASCIO's Executive Committee.
• NASCIO's Security and Privacy Committee has begun preliminary work on its second issue brief for 2007. Due out this summer, this brief will focus on the states' top 5 strategic IT security goals and the tools and tactics to achieve those goals.

Mark Your Calendar

• Disaster Recovery Webinar
  NASCIO's Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Working Group, in conjunction with its Corporate Leadership Council, will host a webinar entitled "Pandemic Solutions: Practical Applications," presented by Symantec Corporation today, May 22, at 2:00 pm ET. The webinar will feature speaker Courtenay Enright, CBCP, Director of Symantec's Global Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery Program.

  Learn about technologies and methodologies to support workforce continuity during a disaster as part of this fifth webinar in NASCIO's 12-part Disaster Recovery Webinar Series, which features presentations by corporate members who have provided financial support for NASCIO's recently released DVD, Government at Risk: Protecting Your IT Infrastructure. Click here to register for this event.

• Upcoming Committee Calls
  
  • Disaster Recovery Working Group - Wednesday, May 23 at 2:00 pm ET
  • Programs Committee - Thursday, May 24 and Thursday, June 7 at 1:00 pm ET
  • Project Management Forum - Tuesday, June 5 at 3:00 pm ET
    Improving the Odds: How Missouri's Project Management Certification Assures the Odds Favor the House,
    Facilitator: Bill Bott, Deputy for Operations, ITSD, State of Missouri
  • Cross-Boundary Collaboration Committee - Wednesday, June 6 at 3:00 pm ET
  • Executive Committee - Thursday, June 7 at 2:00 pm ET
  • Health IT Working Group - Tuesday, June 12 at 3:00 pm ET
  • Enterprise Architecture Committee - Thursday, June 14 at 2:00 pm ET
  • Infrastructure and Services Committee - Thursday, June 14 at 2:00 pm ET
  • Security and Privacy Committee - Friday, June 18 at 1:30 pm ET
  • Corporate Leadership Council - Thursday, June 21 at 4:00 pm ET *Please note that this call has been rescheduled from its original date
• Other Events of Interest
  Governing Managing Technology Conference
  May 30 - June 1 in Chicago, IL
  For more information including a preliminary agenda, click here.
  NASCIO is an event sponsor for this conference -
  Mention your NASCIO membership to receive a discount when registering

  BJA Regional Information Sharing Conference
  Innovations in Justice: Information Sharing Strategies and Best Practices
  June 4-6 in Jacksonville, Florida
  The cost to attend is only $75.
  For more information, visit www.search.org/conferences/2006reginfosharing/.

  27th Annual Management of Change (MOC) Conference
  Innovation - The Next American Revolution?
  A Declaration of Innovation: New Ideas and New Technologies for a Changing World
  June 3-5 in Richmond, Virginia
  For more information or to register for this event, click here.

  Gartner G-CON
  June 6-8 in Washington, DC
  For more information about the conference, click here.
  NASCIO is an event sponsor for this conference -
  Special offer to NASCIO members - Register by June 1 and save $200.
  Call 1 800 778 1997 and mention NASCIO to receive the member discount.

  Global Justice Information Sharing Users' Conference
  August 21-23 in Chicago, Illinois
  

  • NIEM Executive Briefing - August 20 1:00-5:00 pm ET
  • Users' Conference - August 21-23
  The cost to attend is only $195. For more information, visit it.ojp.gov/topic.jsp?topic_id=247.