Government Technology - January 2008 - (Page 29) B Y T OD NE WC OM BE | E D IT OR , PUBLIC CIO GOVERNOR TENNESSEE’S PHIL BREDESEN COUNTS COMPUTER PROGRAMMING AS ONE OF HIS SKILLS. MODERNIZING GOVERNMENT WITH TECHNOLOGY IS ANOTHER. NASHVILLE, TENN., MIGHT BE THE NATION’S COUNTRY MUSIC CAPITAL, but it’s all business in the statehouse, where Gov. Phil Bredesen has resided since 2002. Bredesen draws on his experience as a computer programmer and health-care executive as he leads the nation’s 16th most-populous state Bredesen said his goal is to modernize how state operations run — and that includes information technology. “My priorities have been twofold,” he told Government Technology magazine. “I want to leave behind better internal systems than the ones I found when I became governor. Second, I want to keep exploring how we use IT to deliver services to the outside world. That’s a little more complex than putting up another Web page.” Re-elected in 2006 in a landslide victory, Bredesen has made education a priority, boosting teachers’ pay and expanding the state’s pre-kindergarten program, while also trying to raise high-school graduation rates. Other priorities for Bredesen — who was Nashville’s mayor from 1991 to 1999 — include increasing the number of jobs in the state, enhancing government transparency and improving health care. While the governor sticks to the big picture when it comes to IT, he’s quite comfortable with the subject matter. After working as a computer programmer, Bredesen launched his own IT firm between stints as mayor and governor. In 1980, he founded HealthAmerica Corp., a health-care management firm. He recognizes both the potential and challenge that comes with trying to use IT to deliver something as complex as government services. As a former businessman, he understands the value that technology brings to improving the business process; at the same time, he realizes there’s a cost to IT and it must be viewed as a tool — not a panacea. P H OTOS BY B OB S C H AT Z 29 http://www.govtech.com
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