Regionalization / Consolidation

DC Features

• Bad Economy, Green IT and Web 2.0 Shape 2008 IT Trends
  CIOs grapple with work force turnover, budget prioritization and collaborative applications.
  
• Baton Rouge, La., Boosts Interoperability with Regional Approach
  Officials tackled interoperability for emergency response after hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
  
• Cloud Computing: Public-Sector Opportunities Emerge
  Public CIOs analyze the benefits and risks of cloud computing.
  
• Enterprise Mobility Now Quantifiably Shown to Drive Workforce Flexibility
  Report shows that enterprise mobility solutions have a measurable impact on workforce flexibility, employee responsiveness, and ability to gain knowledge and data from others.
• Shared Interests
  COMMONS Project seeks to distribute data about the Internet and solve broadband crises among underserved communities.
• Sustaining the Municipal Wireless Network
  What is a sensible approach to creating the sustainable municipal network business model?
  
  
• Singapore Wi-Fi Deployment Offers Best Practices for Municipalities Worldwide
  Careful planning and flexible, modular infrastructure simplify countrywide wireless rollout.
• What Is the Digital Economy?
  The second in our series of excerpts from Digital Prosperity, a new report from the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation. Here the authors seek to define the digital economy, noting that IT has been the key factor responsible for reversing the 20-year productivity slowdown and today is driving our robust productivity growth.
• Abandoning Net Neutrality Discourages Improvements in Service
  Charging online content providers such as Yahoo! and Google for preferential access to the customers of Internet service providers not in the best interest of the millions of Americans.
• Toward a Wireless World
  A look at wireless trends and innovations in local governments by the staff of Government Technology magazine in association with the Center for Digital Government.

DC US News

• Fifty-Eight Agencies Collaborate on Inauguration Safety Planning
  Secretary Chertoff designated the 2009 Presidential Inauguration a national special security event.
  
• Foundation for Interoperable Health Information Exchange Established
  "Trial implementations have helped lead the way toward the transformation of health and health care using interoperable health information technology." -- Robert Kolodner, M.D., national coordinator for health information technology.
  
• Kentucky E-Warrants System a Success Says Governor
  More than 62 percent of the new warrants entered into the E-Warrants system have been served, compared with less than 10 percent served under the old system.
  
• Colorado to Share Health Information Across Health Care Organizations
  Clinicians make better treatment decisions, patients are spared the cost of additional tests, and adverse events can be avoided.
  
• City of Tigard Completes Enterprise GIS Implementation
  "While all our key business systems such as permitting, asset management, customer billing, and police systems are separate, they all have one thing in common: location."
  
• Texas Grades State Agencies and Local Governments on Financial Transparency
  "In the age of the Internet, there is seldom a good reason why government cannot keep citizens informed about how tax dollars are spent."
  
• North Dakota Unified Judicial Branch Signs Justice Software Contract
  "It is a comprehensive system that should meet all of our needs for an effective case management system and allow us to expand into the areas of e-filing, document management and Web response."
  

DC International News

• European Emergency Number 112 Now Works in all EU Member States
  "112 working everywhere in the EU is a nice present to all Europeans, and the timing is perfect: during the holiday season of hectic travel people will spend a lot of time in other EU countries."
  
• Global Standards Symposium Meets in Johannesburg
  Technology leaders call for clarity in standards landscape.
  
• EU Parliament votes for Single European Telecom Market
  "This will level the playing field for telecoms operators in Europe, enhance legal certainty, and broaden consumer choice."
  
• INET Africa Speaks to Critical Need for African Interconnection
  "Where countries and networks are separated by lack of interconnectivity."
  
• Arizona and Sonora, Mexico, Enact New Border-Security Initiatives
  To speed response to emergency situations, the closest emergency response team -- from either side of the border -- will be dispatched to help residents, whether they are in Mexico or in the U.S.
  
• OECD Proposes Roadmap for the Internet Economy
  Signatories agreed to make public-sector information available for free or at minimal charge.
  
• Toronto to Deploy Second-Largest 311 Non-Emergency Contact Center in North America
  Will be the catalyst for consolidation and reorganization of a number of city call centers.
  

White Papers / Case Studies

• Measuring Broadband's Economic Impact
  
• The Dollars and Sense of Government-Led Wireless Internet
  
• CDW-G White Paper: Enterprise License Agreements
  
• White Paper: First Steps Toward the Data Center of the Future
  

Best Practices

• Interoperable Emergency Communications Whitepaper
  The PacStar Interoperable Emergency Communications System lets local governments and emergency response teams rapidly reestablish known communications links, even when all infrastructures have collapsed. With interoperable voice, data, and video information flow, multiple emergency teams can make informed decisions both centrally and remotely. Flexible network configurations support situations of any size, type, or geographic location.
• Basic Public Safety Communications & Interoperability
  
• Cisco Outdoor Wireless Solutions for State and Local Government
  
• Government Technology Industry Profile Simdesk Technologies
  
• Government Services Enhanced With Digital Technologies