Government Technology

Government CIOs say that the iPad is making them more productive and efficient, and also has potential to change how technology is delivered to government employees and the citizens they serve.

Think of it as Yelp for the public sector.

Wyoming will migrate the state government’s 10,000 employees to the Google Apps for Government productivity suite within a year, officials said.

At least 38 governors have videos on the online site, including nine who have started this year, a USA TODAY review shows. At least nine other governors have posted videos using other services and state websites.

The move follows a sprinkling of other municipalities across the county, including Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and Orlando, Florida that have adopted Google apps since last year.

Developed by a Dutch company, KyotoCooling International, the patented air handling technology has been making the rounds in European countries for the past few years, but Montana officials say it’s the first state in the nation to use this heat wheel in an IT facility.

The Digital States Survey, launched in the mid-1990s, is the nation’s only sustained assessment of how well state governments are using technology to streamline operations and improve service delivery. It initially focused on the number of online services offered by state governments.

The state paid no upfront costs to start the project.

Analytics solutions must be integrated into the broader strategic goals within the enterprise architecture, according to the report, otherwise these tools lose value.

This is one of those moments in time when technology professionals need to take a step back and ponder those nebulous what ifs.