Government Technology

"It really has been a very positive project for us. Everything that we had hoped for in terms of improving the environment and saving money has come true."

Memo to mayors, state premiers and even ministers for broadband, communications and the digital economy: technology is the economy.

On his first full day in office, President Barack Obama signed a memorandum on transparency and open government, calling for a more participatory government to tap into the expertise of the American people when addressing the biggest challenges facing the country.

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Cities embracing transparency and open government are finding that publishing data sets on public resources are bringing about many new apps for public use.

"I think it’s really going to open people’s eyes to the power of data and what we can all do with it," he explained. "If we get people out of these silos, and we start sharing it, the development community, the public, the government itself, we’re going to see more and more benefits over time."

Once an open data initiative is in place, subsets of other technologies such as mobility can emerge from it, for example, through building mobile apps from the open data.

The program tailored for would-be CIOs is accepting applications through Sept. 10. The CGCIO is the only training program of its kind, according to a university press release.

Mobile data, video analytics, license plate recognition and remote monitoring for police and fire.