Government Technology

As state CIO, Baldwin has a more global set of priorities, aligned with Gov. Bullock’s vision for a more effective government. IT, Baldwin explained, will play a key role in carrying out that vision by helping make government seamless for citizens.

The agency’s new mobile solution, however — called iRealProperty — solved many of the problems, and now saves the county time, money and trouble.

"We sit on a treasure trove of data in government."

President Obama issued an executive order on open data, and the directive outlines support for making government data "open and accessible by default."

Gen Xers are way more comfortable with transparency and open data initiatives. We’re learning in government that people are interested in this information and that they’re willing to put it into a meaningful, useful format that benefits other people in the community."

In this video from the NASCIO Midyear Conference in Washington D.C., Powell talks about the steps his state is taking to make greater use data sharing and analytics.

DATA.GOV – Empowering the People – The purpose of Data.gov is to increase public access to high value, machine readable datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government.

In this video Cockrill talks about the need to build an agile, mobile state IT workforce.

It puts in one place all approved city data that help constituents make better use of information.

An exasperated clerk, asked by a contractor how long it would take to get his permit approved, said it would be eight to 10 weeks.