State of California CIO: E-governing with Web 2.0

November 25, 2008, 8:28am PST | Length: 00:01:55
Teri Takai, CIO of the State of California, discusses how she plans to use collaboration and knowledge sharing tools to help communicate with the federal government on various programs such as homeland security, health care and education.

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State of California CIO: E-governing with Web 2.0

>> Now there's certain technologies or architectures, platforms that you're going to be standardizing on going forward.

>> Yes, there are a number, in fact, actually our challenge is that we have a lot of technology and what we're trying to do is to standardize

more on certain technologies. But then, also, what we're doing is looking forward because Web 2.0, collaboration, actual knowledge sharing

is going to be a big, big important part of what we do going forward.

>> That sounds very much like what we've heard from the president elect Obama in terms of his plan for focusing on technology and data

sharing, eGovernment, how do you think the federal government and the state government are going to work together on those kinds of

initiatives?

>> Well, we're very excited to hear a new focus on information technology and the use of technology at the federal level. It has been

a challenge in the past to really look at how we can collaborate, there's a significant amount of things we do together now but I think

there's going to be a way for us to work even better in the future. There's so many programs like our healthcare programs, our

education programs, our homeland security programs that we do together with the federal government today. In being able to leverage

our technologies is just going to be able to improve services for constituents and businesses. You know, one of the things we always

say is for you as a constituent, you don't really care whether your service comes from a county, a state, or the federal government,

you just want your services delivered in the most effective way possible.

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