May 2018
NEWS TO USE
  • NASCIO made a total donation of $11,011 to the Digital Harbor Foundation, #NASCIO18 Midyear Give Back partner. Thank you to everyone who donated!
  • Relive #NASCIO18 Midyear
  • Check out  the latest Corporate Perspective blog: Re-think your DR with Cloud to achieve sub-second recovery period at up to 80% lower cost
  • Nominations for State IT Recognition Awards accepted through next Thursday, May 24 
  • Tips to Submit a Strong Award Nomination
  • Premier Reception change for #NASCIO18 Annual in October and for future conferences
  • Check out  the latest video in the NASCIO Video Vault
State CIO As Broker: A New Model

Multisourcing is emerging as the discipline for managing a complex and diversified portfolio of services and service providers. These services are being employed to meet the continual evolving demand for creatively delivering government services through new channels with new functionality. In this evolving circumstance there is the need for a new operating model the state CIO can employ to bring together agencies needs and demands with available emerging technologies and management disciplines. This report opens the door to this discussion and explores the underlying forces of change that are driving the need for a new operating model. Learn more
Record-Setting Midyear Conference
Emily A. Lane, Program & Brand Manager

A record 613 NASCIO members and partners gathered in Baltimore last month for the Midyear Conference. Forty-eight states, two territories and the District of Columbia were represented, along with 119 private sector partners. 

The conference featured networking activities, interactive sessions on pressing issues, showcases of innovative state projects and lots of coffee (350 gallons to be exact). 

State projects highlighted in breakout sessions included Innovate Oklahoma, Michigan's CISO as a Service Program and North Carolina's Government Data Analytics Center. The discussion-based Learning Lounges explored the CIO as chief communicator, making open data more usable and understandable for citizens, and how AI innovations seen in the private sector can be adapted to state government.

A highlight of the conference was hearing from Tony Riddick and Luis Arocho, CIOs for the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico, respectively, on lessons learned from Hurricane Maria.They shared what they were prepared for and what was unexpected in the recovery aftermath.

Digital government was also on center stage with a session on User-Centered Design. Speakers walked through various ways to incorporate the needs of the end user (citizen or internal) throughout the design process to ensure a website, app or solution is successful.

Resources from the conference including presentations and video recordings are available at NASCIO.org/2018Midyear
Watch on Washington Top 5

  1. State legislators cyber task force meets in Colorado  The National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) Task Force on Cybersecurity held a meeting in Denver, Colorado where NASCIO president Bo Reese spoke about Oklahoma's IT unification efforts. Other agenda items included: budgeting for cybersecurity, case study in Colorado's cybersecurity funding among others. 
  2. NASCIO part of elections cyber advisory group  The Council of State Governments (CSG) has partnered with the Democracy Fund to create an advisory group of state and local officials to address complex elections cybersecurity concerns. The group will host a consortium later this year and will invite CIOs to participate. More info here
  3. NTIA awards SLIGP 2.0 grants  On May 2, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced that it had made 46 grant awards under the State and Local Implementation Grant Program 2.0. SLIGP 2.0 used leftover funds from original SLIGP grants that expired February 28, 2018; the second round of grants allow for a broader range of planning activities such as assisting state, local, and tribal governments in developing data sharing agreements among others. List of grantees and more here
  4. IRS clarifies scope of safeguards document sharing As follow-up from the 2018 NASCIO Fly-In, the IRS Office of Safeguards released a letter clarifying that state agencies can share safeguards documents with state CIO organizations. The letter is posted on the state CIO and state CISO communities.
  5. AT&T: utility companies can subscribe to FirstNet Utility companies can subscribe to FirstNet as "extended primary" users but would not be eligible to receive preemptive access unless requested by a traditional public-safety entity. Utility communications such as sales and marketing personnel would not be eligible for extended-primary use but those that support first responders, i.e. those that remediate and restore other services during an emergency, may be eligible. Read more here.
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Premier Reception at Future Conferences premier

Please make note that starting with Annual Conference in San Diego this October and going forward with future conferences, the Premier Reception will be on Monday and Awards Dinner on Tuesday.
NASCIO VIDEO VAULTvault

Mike Hussey on Cloud Services - Smarter, Faster, Cheaper
(NASCIO 2017 Annual Conference)