GOVERNMENT

Department of Administration Director, Janet Kelly Announces New CIO for the State of Montana – Richard (Dick) Clark

"I look forward to working with Dick in facing the unique challenges of
planning and delivering high quality technology services to Montana
citizens and state agencies in an ever-changing technology environment."

Idaho Launches Mobile State Web Portal

People with phone and Internet-enabled mobile devices have the added ability of searching, clicking, and calling any state employee without dialing. mobile.idaho.gov also incorporates the state’s new Google-powered search engine and provides text alternatives for PDF links.

Papers Please – The Real ID Act: A national ID card in disguise? Or necessary 21st-century security?

Just what is it about this law that has people up in arms, claiming everything from police state to fascism to a sign of the apocalypse? What good, if any, will the Real ID Act accomplish?

Virginia Governor Warner Approves Sweeping $2 Billion State IT Partnership – Outsourcing on Steroids

The Commonwealth of Virginia has awarded Northrop Grumman Corp. an interim contract to help transform and improve the state’s information technology infrastructure.

Gallatin County to seek new phone system without bids

There are no companies in the running right now to get the job, he said. That decision will ultimately be up to the commission.

NASCIO Releases Findings From State IT Project Management Survey

Billions of dollars are spent on government IT projects every year and state CIOs have the bulk of responsibility for them. Although many have good track records, project success rates have great room for improvement….

Montana workers compensation fund needs $14 million infusion

Work comp is the legally mandated insurance most employers must buy to pay for lost wages and medical expenses for workers injured on the job.

Audit finds Montana isn’t following technology development law

The agency charged with managing information technology growth in state government is not doing its job, and isn’t actively enforcing the laws or policing spending decisions of other agencies, legislative auditors found in a report released Wednesday.

Governance in the Digital Age

We must do so fully cognizant that a business-driven society that fails to embrace the values of its civil society, as Yankelovich has written, "without showing respect for its employees or customers, without inspiring people to give their creative best to their jobs, without employees and management understanding each other and without employees’ buying into management’s vision of the future (will) inevitably slip into mediocrity or worse."

State of Montana, Blue Cross close to deal on children’s insurance

Advocates for the insurance program, however, said Tuesday they’re disappointed the state is not abandoning the insurance contract with Blue Cross and insuring the program itself.

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