A Successful Francis Eppes Lecture by David W. Taylor, State Chief Information Officer
Webcast
State Government of Florida Information Technology Management and Policy: Issues and strategies
Speaker
David W. Taylor (CIO)
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: http://www.myflorida.com/myflorida/cabinet/aeit/. This Eppes lecture is sponsored by the Information Institute at the College of Information and the Askew School of Public Administration and Policy.
Topics 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
Additional Information
Contact Dr. Charles R. McClure, Francis Eppes Professor of Information Studies, and Director of the Information Institute cmcclure@lis.fsu.edu for additional information.