Six major trends for government CIOs to live by

CIO Government outlines six megatrends that are driving government technology and business strategies. It's not that much different from what is driving spending and pilots in the private sector to gain efficiencies and cost savings.

1. Consolidation
2. Voice Over IP   
3. Governance   
4. Business intelligence
5. e-Procurement 
6. Open source   

For comparisoon, below are the top area of interest among large organizations from ZDNet's IT Priorities research:  

August IT Priorities 

1. Wired and wireless
2. Software infrastructure
3. Hardware upgrades 
4. Web technology
5. IT management 
6. Security
7. Data management 
8. OS migration
9. Application development