While the 2020 election appears to have potentially impacted far fewer state CIOs than in past years, the National Association of State Chief Information Officers’ (NASCIO) state CIO membership continues its “churn” according to executive…
November 19, 2020
To put it mildly, 2020 has indeed been a year of disruption at so many levels, and the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) is not immune. Unrelated to the COVID-19 pandemic, however,…
October 8, 2020
South Dakota CIO Jeff Clines began his job in Pierre this past April, right in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak — and even in to the new fiscal year COVID response is front…
August 27, 2020
Jeff Clines left Illinois secretary of state CIO position to become South Dakota CIO during the spring 2020, the crucible of the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak. The cabinet position, full operational authority and the governor’s keen…
July 30, 2020
Montana has garnered national recognition for its decision several years ago to plan to retire its mainframe infrastructure. State CIO Tim Bottenfield said, on Ask the CIO: SLED Edition, that “the writing was on the…
July 16, 2020
As with all state chief information officers, Montana’s Tim Bottenfield has been at the epicenter of the state’s efforts to continue operations during the coronavirus. He’s been teleworking for the most part from his cabin…
July 9, 2020
In part 1 of his interview with Carlos Rivero, the Commonwealth of Virginia’s first chief data officer, host John Thomas Flynn opined that the growing establishment of state CDO positions across the country resembled the…
July 2, 2020
Since its inception during the last decade, the chief data officer position in state government has matured whereby half of the states now boast one. While the original CIOs were primarily embedded within the states’…
June 25, 2020
State IT leadership across the country has for the most part been widely praised for stepping up during this coronavirus pandemic and successfully implementing continuity of operations plans almost seamlessly. However, one area of concern…
June 4, 2020
If the Great Recession of 2008-2009 when millions of local public sector workers lost their jobs is any indication, the pandemic’s impact on this sector in 2020 will be staggering. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell…
May 21, 2020
Alan Shark is amazed at the difference a few months can make. Before the coronavirus turned the world upside down, in January his organization the Public Technology Institute and the National Association of State CIOs…
May 14, 2020
This week should have capped off the National Association of State Chief Information Officers’ 50th anniversary with its Midyear Conference taking place just outside of Washington, D.C. The coronavirus had other ideas, however, and forced…
May 7, 2020
For only the second time since its founding in 1969 the National Association of State Chief Information Officers has been forced to cancel its premier midyear conference that had been scheduled to meet next week…
April 30, 2020
Although this interview with Kevin Plexico, senior vice president of information solutions at Deltek, who runs their market intelligence business, occurred prior to the full impact of the coronavirus pandemic, it set the stage for…
April 23, 2020