Government Technology - March 2008 - (Page 58)

signal: noise BY PAU L W. TAYLO R CHIEF STRATEGY OFFICER CENTER FOR DIGITAL GOVERNMENT index Jurisdictions/Agencies: j Too Bad We Don’t Have a Word for It P ity state legislators. After years of hearings about an impending demographic doomsday, the bow wave comes ashore this session. The start of 2008 comes with an anticipated demographic inflection point that brings with it unprecedented economic and public policy implications. This year, the first of 78 million baby boomers turn 62, making them eligible for Social Security retirement benefits. In three years, they’ll also qualify for Medicare. Owing to their generation’s size and expectations, baby boomers have changed everything they’ve touched. As they begin to reach old age this year, boomers will spike the demand on federal assistance programs — Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. According to the Congressional Budget Office, federal spending on these programs will rise from 8 percent of the nation’s 2007 gross national product to almost 19 percent in 2050. For their part, state legislators have much shorter timelines to balance budgets in an environment of increasing demands and declining revenues. The bipartisan National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) says an anticipated public-sector revenue slowdown is deeper and more widespread NCSL Top 10 State budgets Immigration Driver’s license standards Uninsured Americans Education reform Concerns for the middle class The environment Consumer protection Pensions than first thought, due partly to a drop-off in property tax collection in 12 states and fallout from the subprime mortgage collapse. Against that backdrop, the NCSL released its Top 10 legislative priorities for 2008, most of which have implications for the publicsector technology community. The Center for Digital Government (CDG) thought it would be useful to map the legislative priorities to technologies that the executive branch will use to operationalize solutions. The Internet is three decades old, and like roads, bridges and other vital public infrastructures, it needs repair and expansion to meet the competitive and technical demands of a broadband world. The 2008 legislative sessions also promise to be contentious as legislators and governors seek to burnish their records before the November election. Last year, this might have constituted “a perfect storm.” But that phrase topped the list of words from 2007 that deserved to be banned, according to an annual poll of affronts to the English language by Lake Superior State University in Michigan. So keep an eye out for the whatchamacallit — it will make good watching and, if it hits you, it’s going to hurt. Alabama 18 California 18 California Department of Health Care Services 18 Chicago Office of Emergency Management and Communications 18 Department of Information Technology 18 Florida 18 Honolulu, HI. 18 Kentucky 18 Las Vegas, CA. 14, 18 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) ..10 Medford, Oregon Police Department 42 Minnesota 16 Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development 44 Missouri 18 New Mexico Public Education Department 38 New York City, NY. 18 North Carolina 18 San Jose, CA. 40 Seattle 18 South Korea 52 Texas 18 United Kingdom 52 U.S. Department of Defense 18 U.S. State and Consumer Services Agency 18 Utah 18 Virginia 28 Washington 18 West Virginia 18 Vendors Citrix 34 Deloitte 38, 52 HP 34 IBM 34 iKey 54 Intel 34 Intermec 54 Microsoft 14, 34 Oracle 34 Panasonic 14 Samsung 54 Sun 34 Tecom 54 VMWare 34 CDG Technology Ties ERP dashboards , Surveillance, identity prooﬁng Real ID and DMV modernization Eligibility, case management, CRM 1:1 computing, interactive classrooms, education networks Web 2.0 economic development Green buildings and technologies that run cooler and cheaper (see the Center’s ‘green’ paper, Simply Green) Revisiting and strengthening privacy and cyber-security policies, practices and public education Eligibility, case management, CRM Intelligent transportation technologies, municipal (intercity) wireless Advertisers Index Accenture 7 Brother International 59 CA 31 CDWG 45 ESRI 9, 55 MPC/Gateway 2, 3 GovConnection 17 HP Blades 23 HP Low End 15 HP PSG 53 Microsoft 60 Red Hat 29 TESSCO Technologies 5 Verizon Wireless 13 ViON Corporation 57 MAR_08 Transportation and the nation’s infrastructure 58 http://www.govtech.com

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Government Technology - March 2008 Contents Point of View Big Picture The Last Mile On the Scene Four Questions for... Top 25 Doers, Dreamers and Drivers Let's [Not] Get Physical No Data Left Behind Conservation King Community Drug Test Reinventing the System Better Late Than Never Closing the Deal Spectrum Products Personal Computing signal:noise Digital Communities The Expanding Focus of Digital Communities The Digital Imperative Hot Fusion Redefining Municipal Wireless Made in the USA Bridge Detectives The 2008 Agenda

Government Technology - March 2008

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