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- California gets first statewide CIO
- Governor Schwarzenegger has just appointed California's first statewide CIO to Teresa "Teri" M. Takai. Ms. Takai used to be CIO of Michigan and served as director of the Michigan Department of Information Technology since 2003. The reasons behind the decision were mainly economic, driven by members of...
- Blog posts 2007-12-12
- Implement Web-filtering software in your government organization
- Ramon Padilla is an advocate of implementing Web-filtering in your government organization. This article discusses the benefits and possible pitfalls of installing filtering and monitoring software. While driving to work the other day, I heard a report about government employees who had been discovered using the Internet to...
- Technical articles 2005-07-18
- The Role of Open Source
- Government organizations are increasingly interested in open source computing solutions. Proprietary vendors are exerting considerable pressure, through new and more onerous licensing policies, to lock into their systems and foot the bill for frequent upgrades. Moreover, today's popular proprietary computing platforms raise concerns about security, reliability and performance. Open source...
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- Discover True Costs: Implementing ABC in Government
- With budget constraints government organizations are being asked to do more with less. But how can a person allocate limited resources effectively if he or she doesn't know the true costs of running the programs? Increasingly, government organizations are implementing Activity-Based Costing ABC to help them identify what is driving...
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- Government Organization Improves IT Efficiency With New Operating System
- To improve its employee productivity and IT efficiency, the Instituto Nacional de EstadÃstica Geografia e Informatica INEGI of Mexico is upgrading its computers to the Windows Vista Enterprise operating system. INEGI expects to reduce time spent troubleshooting computers by approximately 90 percent in many instances, and also anticipates an 80...
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- Government Organization Improves Help Desk Responsiveness With New Automated System
- The Instituto Nacional de Estadistica Geografia e Informatica INEGI, a government organization in Mexico responsible for national statistics and geographical information, relied on a paper-based, highly manual, time-consuming process for fielding internal customer support requests. Customer response times were slow and it was difficult to measure Help Desk performance or...
- Case studies 2007-03-01
- A Local Government Organization Develops a Privacy Architecture to Protect Sensitive Information and Lays the Foundation for Future Automation of Online Privacy
- The Office of the Corporate CIO OCCIO needed to develop a technology blueprint that would provide consistent privacy guidance for all stakeholders involved in any government IT initiative. The ideal solution would be a privacy architecture that functioned as an extension of the existing enterprise architecture. The OCCIO engaged IBM...
- Case studies 2008-01-01
- How Collaboration Solutions Help Government Organizations Securely and Effectively Share Information
- Government organizations are under pressure to deliver increased services with shrinking resources. To become more effective, government employees need better collaboration tools that allow information to be securely shared between organizations. This means government employees travel less, have fewer meetings, communicate more effectively, and make better decisions. The attendee of...
- Webcasts 2009-01-30
- USPS Webcast: Simplifying and Streamlining Communications for Government
- Microsoft Unified Communications technologies use the power of software to help local government organizations streamline communications, regardless of medium, platform, device, or location. By empowering people with a familiar set of tools, Microsoft Unified Communications breaks down communication silos and extends existing communications investments, while enabling government process innovation. At...
- Webcasts 2009-03-11
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- Procurement 101 in government IT: Request for Proposal (RFP)
- If you're new to the procurement process in government IT, understanding how to create an RFP is a first step. Follow these tips to write an RFP that produces the competitive bids you need. Keep up with the issues and challenges that uniquely affect public-sector IT with TechRepublic's free...
- Technical articles 2005-04-18
- Make good customer service the goal of your government organization
- Ramon Padilla discusses the role of good customer service in government organizations, and the benefits that can accrue from having a good service reputation. Yesterday I spent nearly two hours resolving an issue in which one of my ISPs "turned off" my account because it had failed to...
- Technical articles 2005-07-01
- Promote process mapping in your organization with carrot-and-stick approach
- Tradition in government, perhaps more than in any other industry,often plays a substantial role in carrying out the day-to-day activities of theorganization. Legacy methods and processes that were developed at the start ofa particular program, grant, or department are seemingly etched in stone. Andin fact, some were created by a...
- Technical articles 2005-07-11
- CMS solution powers several government Web sites
- How would you like to be the CIO responsible for managing the regular updating and maintenance of three Web sites with 250 content contributors? And if you think that’s tough, your boss is also the government, or more precisely the Architect of the Capitol AOC, which is responsible to the...
- Technical articles 2003-09-03
- Protect government databases with data encryption
- With the recent proliferation of data thefts, you should be revisiting the security environment of your organization's data. While firewalls and physical security are important, Ramon Padilla advises you to implement data encryption to seal the gaps. Keep up with the issues and challenges that uniquely affect public-sector IT...
- Technical articles 2005-05-02
- Learn how IT governance can benefit your organization
- Ramon Padilla explains the idea behind IT governance and gives you some pointers about implementing a governance process in your organization. You can hardly browse a technology publication these days without reading at least one article on "business and IT alignment". Clearly, someone has figured out that...
- Technical articles 2005-07-25
- Disaster Recovery Planning for a Government Organization
- The client is a government non-profit organization in UK. The organization was looking to implement strong DR practices in the IT services arm of the organization in order to provide a smooth and committed service to its internal clients. The client had Win NT servers, UNIX servers and large local...
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- VGR Begins Transition to Knowledge-Based Organization With IBM WebSphere Information Integrator OmniFind Edition
- Region Vastra Gotaland VGR is the second-largest region in Sweden with 1.5 million citizens and 49 municipalities. As a government organization, VGR is responsible for the delivery of healthcare, business development, infrastructure, culture, tourism and environmental services to its residents and visitors. The challenge was to streamline information access to...
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- VGR Begins Transition to Knowledge-Based Organization With IBM Omnifind Enterprise Edition
- Region Vastra Gotaland VGR is the second-largest region in Sweden with 1.5 million citizens and 49 municipalities. As a government organization, VGR is responsible for the delivery of healthcare, business development, infrastructure, culture, tourism and environmental services to its residents and visitors. The challenge faced was to streamline information access...
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- Implement Web-filtering software in your government organization
- RE: protect them from themselvesI am with the IT dept of a large city. We have been monitoring / blocking inappropriate surfing for six years. The usual porn / gambling / criminal intent sites are on our black list. I know of at least a half-dozen employees...
- Discussion threads 2005-07-19
- Government Resource Enhances Help Desk Productivity and Gains Insight Into Service Performance With the 2007 Microsoft Office System
- INEGI (Instituto Nacional de Estadistica, Geografia y Informatica) is the government organization in Mexico responsible for national statistics and geographical information. Every day INEGI fields information requests from thousands of users across the country and around the world, making a strong infrastructure for internal issue resolution essential. Currently, INEGI's staff...
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