Data Literacy Within State Government: Building a Knowledgeable Workforce That Knows How to Use Data for Better Decisions

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Data literacy is an important capability for all state employees. The growing interest and use of generative artificial intelligence software puts even more emphasis on this important capability across the state organization.  Data quality and data literacy are tightly coupled capabilities. This short document highlights the issues and recommendations for moving forward with a state government data literacy program.

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State CIO Top Ten Policy and Technology Priorities for 2024

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NASCIO conducts a survey of the state CIOs to identify and prioritize the top policy and technology issues facing state government. The CIOs top ten priorities are identified and used as input to NASCIO’s programs, planning for conference sessions, and publications.

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Insights from the World of Public Sector Leadership: The 2023 State CIO Survey

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Explore the priorities, perspectives, issues and trends reported by state CIOs. The 2023 State CIO Survey provides insights into the role of state CIO, including key relationships, business trends and critical policy areas.

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The 2023 State CIO Survey: The Force of Automation and the Reality of Modernization

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The 2023 State CIO Survey covers evergreen topics like cybersecurity, emerging technology, cloud, legacy modernization and data management and also includes some topics with a new angle—some that we might have covered before, but we tried to put a new spin on the questions asked. The report also includes questions on workforce in many of its sections. Workforce challenges, including continuity of leadership, have and continue to have an impact on the state CIO’s ability to deliver services both now and in the future. There is also a focus on automation and, based on trending adoption, we anticipate further utilization of automation tools and services to streamline business processes; enhance digital citizen experience; and strengthen states’ cybersecurity posture.

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State CIO Top Ten Policy and Technology Priorities for 2023

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NASCIO conducts a survey of the state CIOs to identify and prioritize the top policy and technology issues facing state government. The CIOs top ten priorities are identified and used as input to NASCIO’s programs, planning for conference sessions, and publications.

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State CIO Top Ten Policy and Technology Priorities for 2022

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NASCIO conducts a survey of the state CIOs to identify and prioritize the top policy and technology issues facing state government. The CIOs top ten priorities are identified and used as input to NASCIO’s programs, planning for conference sessions, and publications.

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Making the Case for Insight Enabling Analytics

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The complexities as well as the shear volume of information that are rushing toward state government decision makers is overwhelming.  And the importance and responsibility for making the right decisions  is also at an all time high.  Decisions bring outcomes on citizens.  Those outcomes must be the intended outcomes that ensure citizens are protected and their lives are made better through policy and program decisions by the elected representatives citizens put in place.

Analytics must be insight enabling analytics to ensure decisions makers have access to necessary and relevant data and information, and the capabilities to effectively draw conclusions that lead to competent decisions.

We make the case for analytics and present questions for state government decision makers.  We also present a list of recommendations for effectively establishing an enterprise capability in analytics.  This report builds on our series on analytics “Do You Think? or Do You Know?”.

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An Introduction to the National Information Exchange Model

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This presentation provides an overview of NIEM, the motivation behind the creation of it, the domains of government that are included, and the benefits that can be gained by employing it.

Katherine Escobar, Managing Director for the NIEM Program Management Office, provides an introduction to NIEM including the challenges facing state, local, territorial and tribal governments in sharing information across government lines of business.

NASCIO has a long history supporting the NIEM initiative.  This is a revisit of the benefits of NIEM and how to get started.

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Additional information about NIEM is available on the following websites:

  • The NIEM website
  • “What is NIEM” – An introduction to NIEM–a common vocabulary that enables efficient information exchange across diverse public and private organizations.
  • NASCIO NIEM resources – For additional NASCIO resources related to NIEM, search on the term “NIEM” using our search tool
  • “In Hot Pursuit – Achieving Interoperability Through XML”  Part 1 and Part 2 – this video references XML but NIEM is much more than a set of XML schemas.  

 

State CIO Top Ten Policy and Technology Priorities for 2021

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NASCIO conducts a survey of the state CIOs to identify and prioritize the top policy and technology issues facing state government. The CIOs top ten priorities are identified and used as input to NASCIO’s programs, planning for conference sessions, and publications.

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The 2020 State CIO Survey

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2020 is a year that has undoubtedly been defined by the COVID-19 pandemic. In this eleventh annual state chief information officer (CIO) survey, we received the perspective of 47 state and territory CIOs on the extraordinary and unprecedented challenges they faced this year. In addition to directly addressing the issues and lessons learned by CIOs in responding to the pandemic, we also received updates from CIOs on many of the tradi­tional topics covered by the survey, including CIO organization business models, digital government, adoption of cloud and emerging technologies and state and local collaboration. As might be expect­ed, there was not a single topic area where the pandemic did not impact state CIO experiences in some way. The continuing work to address the immediate challenges of COVID-19 and to prepare for the long-term impacts to state and citizen work and personal lives is reflected throughout this year’s survey.

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