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February 2008

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TOP STORIES

  • Registration Opens for NASCIO Midyear Conference

    Join us for the 2008 NASCIO Midyear Conference, A Focus on the Enterprise: Campaigning for Change which will be held April 29 - May 2 in Chantilly, Virginia at the Marriott Westfields Washington Dulles. Registration is now open and a preliminary conference agenda is available. Click here for more details.

    Midyear Conference sponsorship registration is also in full swing - Gain Monumental Exposure for your Company - Register today! The deadline for sponsorship reservations is March 17, 2008.

    In addition, NASCIO's eighth annual DC Fly-In will be held on April 30 in conjunction with the Midyear Conference. Conducting these events during the same week will allow increased CIO participation and reinforce NASCIO's role as an effective advocate for state information technology policy. For more information about the DC Fly-In, click here.

  • NASCIO is pleased to announce the release of its new video, At Risk! Securing Government in a Digital World

    The Information Security and Privacy Committee is pleased with the response to NASCIO's new video "At Risk! Securing Government in a Digital World". View it in streaming form or order your free DVD copy.

    Technology makes so much possible for government. Yet, when a security breach disrupts government operations--the results can be disastrous. How serious are the threats against government operating in a digital age? It is like fighting a storm that never ends. The threats are everywhere--outside and inside--and they are there all the time. Always changing and adapting. Is your government ready to deal with security risks in a digital age?

    We would like to thank the following NASCIO corporate members for providing funding for this project:

    CA, Inc. Red Hat
    CIBER SunGard Availability Services
    EMC Symantec
    Motorola Unisys
    NIC Verizon Business Security Solutions powered by Cybertrust

    Please click here for links to thought-leadership and other materials from these IT Security Video sponsors.

    CIOs Speak Out on IT Security: a three-part NASCIO podcast series on the state IT threat landscape, the importance of taking the enterprise approach to IT security and making the case for security investments. Listen in and hear what the CIOs have to say!

  • Corporate Leadership Council to Assemble in February

    NASCIO's Corporate Leadership Council, which represents all corporate members, will hold a Face-to-Face Meeting on February 26, 2008 from 8:30 am - 3:00 pm ET at the Oracle facility in Reston, Virginia. The CLC will discuss a number of important topics including the CLC Midyear Conference activities and project ideas. In addition, the guest speaker, Mark Stencel, Governing, will discuss perspectives and trends in the states.

    Click here for additional information or to register your company representatives. Please note that Oracle is a secure facility and all those attending must register to gain access into the building. There is no cost to attend this meeting and lunch will be provided. The registration deadline is February 21. Please contact Shawn Karrick at skarrick@amrms.com or (859) 514-9156 with questions or suggested agenda items.

  • NASCIO Supports DTV Transition

    NASCIO will serve as an important public awareness channel for the Federal Communications Commission as an outreach partner for the digital television transition. After February 17, 2009 full-power television stations will broadcast in digital only. An important benefit of the switch to all-digital broadcasting is that it will free up parts of the valuable broadcast spectrum for public safety communications (such as police, fire departments and other first responders). In addition, NASCIO wants to ensure that citizens still using over-the-air television broadcast signals in 2009 will continue to receive state government alerts, warnings and information notices. For more detail, visit www.nascio.org/advocacy/current/dtv.cfm.

NASCIO In The News


Members In The News

  • KENTUCKY
    Steve Dooley was named Interim Commissioner and Chief Information Officer for the Commonwealth of Kentucky Office of Technology, Finance and Administration Cabinet. Dooley previously served the Commonwealth in various roles including as Commissioner of the Department of Information Services beginning in 1984 and Acting State CIO beginning in 2003.
  • PENNSYLVANIA
    Secretary of Administration Naomi Wyatt has appointed Brenda Orth as the department's Deputy Secretary of IT and State Chief Information Officer. Click here to view the official announcement.
  • LOUISIANA
    Rizwan Ahmed, CIO, State of Louisiana, has been appointed as a member of the National Geospatial Advisory Committee by the U.S. Department of the Interior, Secretary Dirk Kempthorne.

  • GTtv Video Stories

    Up and Coming CIOs, Features Mike Locatis, CIO, State of Colorado and Mark Bengel, CIO, State of Tennessee

    Texas CTO, Brian Rawson at GTC Southwest

  • New Members

    NASCIO is pleased to welcome the following new members:
    Corporate Member – Debix, Inc
    Non-profit Member - Green Electronics Council

NASCIO on the Road

  • Eric Sweden, NASCIO Issue Coordinator, attended the final report meeting of the Kansas Collaborative initiative led by Bill Roth, Chief Enterprise Architect on January 24 in Topeka, Kansas.
  • NASCIO Executive Director Doug Robinson moderated a panel and spoke at Governing Outlook in the States on January 30 in Washington DC. The topic of the panel was Managing Government's Data - Challenges and Opportunities.
  • NASCIO Issues Coordinator, Stephanie Jamison, attended the first Public Technology Institute (PTI) Health IT Summit in Atlanta, GA on January 30-31. NASCIO was a co-sponsor of the Summit, which featured presentations by a variety of state and local government officials, as well as industry representatives, and covered topics such as electronic protected health information (ePHI) encryption, personal health records, and the role of GIS in disease surveillance. It also featured case studies of state and local health information exchange initiatives and electronic health record efforts. A complete wrap-up, including presentations by all speakers, is now available at: www.pti.org/index.php/ptiee1/more/347.

Committee & Work Group Updates

  • Consolidation and Shared Services Forum - Kevin Iwersen, Chief Technology Officer for the state of Idaho has agreed to chair the Forum. The Forum's first conference call is currently being scheduled.
  • The Corporate Leadership Council will hold its Face-to-Face meeting on February 26 in Reston, Virginia at the Oracle Building. For more information, visit www.nascio.org/committees/clc/clcmtg.cfm.
  • E-Records Management/Digital Preservation Work Group's focus will be best practices in e-records management and digital preservation.
  • Information Security and Privacy Committee's focus will likely involve data protection.
  • Innovative Funding Working Group - Dick Thompson, CIO, Maine and Rico Singleton, Deputy CIO, New York, were appointed co-chairs by President John Gillispie.

Mark Your Calendar

  • Upcoming Committee Calls
    • Programs Committee - Tuesday, February 19 and March 4 at 2:00 pm ET
    • State IT Workforce Working Group - February 19 at 1:00 p.m. ET
    • Greening of IT Working Group - February 20 at 3:00 p.m. ET
    • Corporate Leadership Council - Face to Face Meeting - February 26, Reston, VA
    • Awards Committee - Wednesday, February 27 and March 12 at Noon ET
    • Innovative Funding for State IT Working Group - Wednesday, March 5 at 1:00 pm ET
    • Legacy Systems & Modernization Working Group -Thursday, March 6 at 1:00 pm ET
    • Executive Committee - Thursday, March 6 at 2:00 p.m. ET
    • Enterprise Architecture Committee - Thursday, March 13 at 2:00 p.m. ET
  • Other Events of Interest
    • NGA Winter Meeting
      February 23-26, 2008 in Washington, DC
    • HIMSS Annual Conference and Exhibition
      Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, FL February 24-28, 2008
    • Transparency: Frontiers and Failures
      Presented by Harvard University February 25, 2008: 2-4pm ET. For more details visit www.innovations.harvard.edu/spotlight.html?id=841&preview=1
    • 2008 Information Processing Interagency Conference (IPIC)
      Transforming the Infrastructure Presented by the Government Information Technology Executive Council (GITEC) March 2-6, 2008 at the Renaissance SeaWorld, Orlando, FL. For more information, visit www.ipicconference.org.
    • BJA's 2008 Regional Training Series
      This series will be held in Atlanta, GA on March 11-13, 2008. Learn the latest on key issues in law enforcement and criminal justice
    • NSGIC 2008 Midyear Conference
      The conference will be held in Annapolis, MD on March 9-12, 2008. The theme will be "Rigging for Action." Click here to register online.