Minnesota Gets First CIO
Minnesota has its first CIO, Gopal Khanna, a former CIO and CFO for the US Peace Corps, Gov. Tim Pawlenty announced recently.
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California's new Technology Resources department skimps on website
As part of Gov. Arnold Schwartzenegger's streamlining of government, California has a new Department of Technology Resources (DTS), which consolidates three major data centers under one bureaucracy.
Secret network for homeland security info exchange
As a stopgap measure before the Department of Homeland Security's secret-level backbone - the Homeland Security Data Network - is ready in 2007, DHS is rolling out a temporary secret network called Homeland Security Information Network-Secret, a DHS official told Congress in July.
$139m in grants to state agencies for health information technology
Federal Health Information Technology (HIT) initiatives will deliver $139m to 38 states over the next four years, according to Input, a government market analyst. One hundred grants will be made to push agencies forward on health care information automation and sharing.
State & local govts predicted to spend $16b on telecom by FY10
Telecommunications spending by state and local governments is expected to grow by 70%, from $9.6b in 2005 to $16.4b in 2010, according to analysis firm INPUT.
Rural cities roll out muni WiFi
A study conducted by muniwireless.com in March 2005 found that 29 American cities have citywide public access and another 13 have hotzones within the city limits.
A weak case for Internet reorg
Blogger John Carroll says that a report released by the Working Group on Internet Governance draws several unwarranted conclusions: The United States has screwed up the Internet; government comes first; and, all governments shall have equal weight in Internet governance. "The WGIG's goal," writes Carroll, "is to put the United Nations in the Internet's driver's seat.
Putting a cap on the WiMAX hype
In his latest commentary, fellow ZDNet blogger George Ou takes WiMAX by the horns and shakes out several misunderstandings of what the anticipated wireless technology means to Wi-Fi, showing how it shares a common denominator with Wi-Fi bigger than most think. The key differentiator is not range, speed, or security, points out Ou, but rather the ability for WiMAX to operate in both the licensed radio band and unlicensed radio band (Wi-Fi is designed for only unlicensed use).
Keep e-gov. and IT strategies seperate but equal, says report
Gartner draws a clear distinction between e-government and IT strategies, saying that the two serve different purposes, although they are rooted in the same political objectives. However, that doesn't mean they are islolated.
Enabling government Web services
Jim Willis, the chief geek in the Rhode Island Secretary of State's office, has a vision for government data: It is simply unacceptable at...