24 Oct 2007

US government CIOs discuss their priorities

America’s government CIOs are concerned above all about Information security and privacy at the moment, according to the latest DotGovBuzz.* Other priorities are information sharing, identity management, and the adoption of emerging Web 2.0 collaborative technologies, it seems.

“If we don’t get privacy and security right, nothing else matters,” Tim Young said, summarizing the discussion.

America’s state and local CIOs say cross-bpindary collaboration is their biggest challenge, followed by securing citizens trust. Meanwhile a name change from FirstGov to usa.gov plus a PR drive has tripled awareness in the main government portal.

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Posted by Ideal Gov administrator on 24/10/07 at 4:58pm
Categories · "What do we want?" · Foundation of Trust

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