Ask the CIO: SLED Edition Podcast
1) South Dakota CIO takes office in the eye of pandemic storm
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 auth...Show More
2) Montana CIO gets ready to retire state's mainframe infrastructure: Part 2
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 wr...Show More
3) CIO journey from the ivory halls of academia to Montana CIO
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 mo...Show More
4) Inventory of state data assets crucial for CDO: Part 2
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 c...Show More
5) What’s next for the chief data officer?: Part 1
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 wi...Show More
6) Massachusetts unemployment surge no problem for modernized system
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 se...Show More
7) Part 2: Local governments shudder at coronavirus potential job losses
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 Cha...Show More
8) Part 1: Local governments bend but don’t break under coronavirus
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 Associ...Show More
9) Coronavirus impact and state CIOs' finest hour
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 coronaviru...Show More
10) Coronavirus victim: NASCIO midyear conference goes virtual
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 mee...Show More