On this episode, Jake sits down with Maryland's Julia Fischer and Montana's Erin Fashoway to talk about one year of the coronavirus pandemic. Music by Captive Portal Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported— CC BY-SA 3.0
Nebraska CIO Ed Toner and Ohio CIO Ervan Rodgers review how to the pandemic has affected their IT modernization efforts.
Last year, Rush University’s Medical Center in Chicago began an ambitious data collection and analysis project — Data Comms — to move data of more than a million patients into a secure cloud environment and use AI-enabled, deep-learning medical research algorithms. This investment opened the door to a new level of data analysis, but lowering costs billed to IT operations with a scalable, on-demand cloud platform, says Casey Frankenberger, chief research informatics officer. This podcast was prod...
Last year, modernization initiatives for state and local agencies could be largely categorized as fast, reactive decisions to keep operations running during the pandemic. However, today CIOs and CISOs need to take a step back to consider larger questions around the security implications of those decisions. Security advisor Wendy Nather says findings from a recent security survey can help organizations, regardless of their budget situations, identify which practices are likely to deliver the grea...
West Virginia Chief Technology Officer Joshua Spence and Oklahoma Chief Information Security Officer Matt Singleton explain how they're managing risk and the role that data plays in setting their states' cybersecurity policies. This episode is sponsored by Alteryx.
A recurring security theme through the last year is that in the rush to support remote workers — and deploy cloud-based services — state and local agencies have become more vulnerable to security risks and instances of fraud. CIOs are being asked to implement more cloud-based services that will improve service delivery. However, the success of these programs will depend in part on the identity authentication solution that agencies put in place, according to cloud and identity expert Rob Forbes. ...
On this episode of GIS Addressed, we sit down with NY GIO Frank Winters and Wyoming's Karen Rogers to talk about the role of GIS in the data & analytics discussion. Music by Captive Portal Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported— CC BY-SA 3.0
On this episode, we sit down with the winners of the GoldenGov: County Executive of the Year category in the 2020 LocalSmart Awards. Take Me Higher, Fireworks and Magic Mountain by Jahzzr Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported— CC BY-SA 3.0
On this episode, StateScoop sits down with the winners of the 2020 LocalSmart Local IT Innovation of the Year awards. Take Me Higher, Fireworks and Magic Mountain by Jahzzr Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported— CC BY-SA 3.0
On this episode of the 2020 StateScoop 50 Miniseries Podcast, Ben sits down with the winners of the Industry Leadership award to talk about how they've worked with government on response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Magic Mountain, The Wrong Way, Fireworks and So Easy by Jahzzar are licensed under a Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 International License.
In this episode, StateScoop sits down with the winners of the 2020 GoldenGov: City Executive of the Year LocalSmart award. Take Me Higher, Fireworks and Magic Mountain by Jahzzr Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported— CC BY-SA 3.0
Texas CIO Amanda Crawford and North Dakota CIO Shawn Riley discuss state IT workforce challenges. StateScoop's Colin Wood is your host.
In this episode, Jake sits down with the winners of the Local Cybersecurity Leader of the Year Award in the 2020 LocalSmart Awards. Take Me Higher, Fireworks and Magic Mountain by Jahzzr Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported— CC BY-SA 3.0
IT leaders in Sonoma County targeted key user groups to demonstrate the time-saving effectiveness of an e-signature solution and gain support for broader adoption. Following the strategic rollout of a digital e-signature tool, both citizens and employees are experiencing dramatically quicker processing and approval times. Jim McKenney and Carolyn Staats share how they implemented their winning strategy. Sponsored by AWS. Guests: Carolyn Staats, Director of Innovation, Information Systems Departm...
NASCIO's Doug Robinson and Meredith Ward look back on 2020 and forward to 2021. This episode is sponsored by Duo Security.
As the pandemic prolongs the need to enable a remote workforce, state and local governments must rethink how they secure access to resources wherever their employees are working. The need to pivot and refocus security strategies adds an important perspective to NASCIO’s 2020 list of top IT priorities that state CIOs were already addressing, including security, cloud and innovation through technology, says Palo Alto Networks' Matthew Schneider. “States have seen their networks go from a few hundr...
For this episode, Jake sits down with Frank Winters, Jenna Leveille and Karen Rogers to talk about 2020 in GIS, as well as how the COVID-19 pandemic changed everything.
In this episode, Jake sits down with the winners of the 2002 Local IT Leader of the Year LocalSmart award. Take Me Higher, Fireworks and Magic Mountain by Jahzzr Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported— CC BY-SA 3.0
The COVID-19 pandemic — while throwing the nation into crisis — also served as an accelerator for agencies to modernize how they interact with constituents and deliver services. “Everybody started to be affected by not just the pandemic and the virus, but how technology and data, and their interaction with it, made them successful or not,” says technical advisor, Juliana Vida. “More and more [decisions are] reliant on data. Those that are making decisions, those are that are deciding where the r...
State and local government IT officials have faced unprecedented challenges this year in trying to meet their constituents’ needs. As they expand digital service offerings, it is critical to invest in and modernize identity and access management solutions for citizens. Citizens expect access to services from any mobile device, says ForgeRock's Tommy Cathey. Moving away from traditional desktop browser authentication tools needs to be a top priority. Cathy discusses digital modernization framewor...
In this episode, which Ryan Johnston guest hosts, we dive into broadband and wireless connectivity, and specifically what's going on in a COVID-19 world with municipal broadband.
State and local government leaders should lean on advances to cloud made during the pandemic to accelerate digital services that will provide additional benefits in a post-pandemic world, Okta’s Kelsey Nelson says. “Many of the IT leaders we talked to within state and local agencies had been starting along a lot of these modernization paths [before the pandemic],” says Nelson. “That idea of digital services is one that we see a lot of acceleration that happened as a result of the pandemic.” Spon...
North Carolina Chief Risk Officer Maria Thompson and Pennsylvania Chief Information Security Officer Erik Avakian discuss their current cybersecurity initiatives.
Arkansas Chief Technology Officer Yessica Jones and Nevada Chief Information Officer Alan Cunningham discuss the cloud modernization efforts in their states. This episode is sponsored by eCloud Managed Solutions.
Shortages of talent continue to handicap the ability of state and local governments to keep up with growing security threats. The shift to a remote workforce has only expanded the daily onslaught of security threats just as agency leaders face looming budget pressures in the coming year. Government leaders are reconsidering the advantages of managed and professional service providers to bridge their skills gaps and maintain security operations at a lower overall cost. The skills gap is twofold p...
On this episode of GIS Addressed, Jake revisits his 2019 chat with Jamie Chesser and Tammy Patrick to talk about Geo-Enabled Elections in a COVID world.
Ben Spear, director of the Elections Infrastructure Information Sharing and Analysis Center, and Spencer Wood, chief information officer for the Ohio Secretary of State's office, discuss the latest efforts to prepare the nation's election system for the 2020 presidential election.
On this first episode of the 2020 StateScoop 50 Awards miniseries, StateScoop Technology Editor Benjamin Freed sits down with the winners of the GoldenGov: State Executive of the Year Award to talk about the past year, the COVID-19 pandemic and what's next for them. Magic Mountain, The Wrong Way, Fireworks and So Easy by Jahzzar are licensed under a Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 International License.
Tyler Kleycamp, director of the Chief Data Officers Network at the Beeck Center for Social Impact and Innovation at Georgetown University, talks data use by government during the pandemic. Jennifer Ricker and Tammy Roust from the Illinois Department of Innovation and Technology also join to discuss their efforts using data in pandemic management.
State and local governments are experiencing unprecedented demands for services during the pandemic. That's why robotic process automation is becoming an essential tool to help agency employees keep up with the workload and the needs of citizens. In this podcast, IT leaders from Texas, New Jersey and UiPath (a leader in RPA implementation) discuss strategies to include automation and agility into a broader IT modernization strategy. The two state leaders also share the benefits their agencies ar...
