A Francis Eppes Lecture by David W. Taylor (CIO) February 26, 2009

State Government of Florida Information Technology Management and Policy: Issues and strategies

A Francis Eppes Lecture by David W. Taylor (CIO) February 26, 2009 2:00 – 3:30, Louis Shores Building Auditorium 006

David W. Taylor
Executive Director of the Agency for Enterprise Information Technology, and State Chief Information Officer


Background

The information technology (IT) environment for the state government of Florida encompasses a broad array of equipment, resources, and services in which the overall success of state government is heavily dependent. Increasingly state government IT provides not only the support infrastructure to operate government (Florida being the 4th largest state in the nation), it also is the means by which government conducts its business and residents in Florida communicate with that government. The budget for state government IT and its various infrastructures is approximately $2 billion and a range of management strategies and policies are in place to operate this IT environment and to prepare it for the future. Additional background information about initiatives in Florida government IT and IT infrastructure can be found at:

This Eppes lecture is sponsored by the Information Institute at the College of Information and the Askew School of Public Administration and Policy.


Topics to be Discussed
  • Overview and description of the current state government IT environment, management structure, and policy environment
  • Role of IT in conducting government business and providing user services
  • Current challenges facing state government IT
  • The politics of IT planning, deployment, and management
  • Role of user services in IT
  • Strategies for meeting future IT needs in state government
  • Audience question/answers


For Directions to the Eppes Lecture

http://www.ii.fsu.edu/contact.cfm


Additional Information

The College of Communication and Information will webcast the program with access instructions to be announced on the College’s webpage at http://cci.fsu.edu/. Contact Dr. Charles R. McClure, Francis Eppes Professor of Information Studies, and Director of the Information Institute cmcclure@lis.fsu.edu for additional information.


About the Speaker

David Taylor has been the State Chief Information Officer and Executive Director for the Agency for Enterprise Information Technology since July of 2008. He reports to the Governor and Cabinet members for the State of Florida.

Mr. Taylor was previously the Chief Information Officer of the Florida Department of Health beginning in 2003. This position entailed overall authority for IT services and management for a 17,000 employee organization with $2.5 billion budget. The agency’s IT expenditures exceed $60 million per year.

Through an interagency partnership, Mr. Taylor was appointed Enterprise Information Officer for the Florida Department of Management Services (DMS) from March 2006 through December 2006. He was responsible for overseeing all Enterprise Information Technology Services operations and providing strategic direction and technical oversight in the restructuring, focusing, and rebuilding of the DMS IT enterprise services.

During 2006, Mr. Taylor was the Chairman of the State of Florida CIO Council. In fiscal year 2006-2007, he served as State of Florida representative to the National Association of State CIOs. In 2005-2006 he was the Chairman of the National Association of Public Health Information Technology (NAPHIT).

Mr. Taylor holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of Massachusetts - Lowell. He also holds a Masters degree in Public Administration from the University of Central Florida.