Government Technology’s passion is helping spread best practices and spurring innovation in the public sector. The New York Digital Government Summit is designed to do just that. The summit has an advisory board that gathers public sector and private sector leaders to create an agenda designed to make that passion relevant and actionable to the state and local government organizations attending the summit. Participants tell us they use t...

Today's health insurance marketplace has come a long way from the cost sinkhole many predicted it would become. Healthcare.gov became the biggest challenge in Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) 50-year history. A year into development, Henry Chao, the Deputy CIO at CMS, made a daring decision to change course and adopt new technologies that effectively supported CMS's modern marketplace initiative.Today's health insurance marketplace has...

Overview This is an invitation-only event. The New York State IT Leader of the Year AwardNominations are now being accepted | Submission Deadline is Friday, March 15, 2013For Submission Guidelines click HERE. Topics Will Include Government on the Go: Changing the way Government Works! Stakeholder Relationships that Improve Organizational Performance Effective Methods for Driving Innovation The "Big Data": Moving from "What is it?" and "So what...

The 6th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (ICEGOV2012) will take place in Albany, NY, United States from October 22-25, 2012. This year’s conference is expected to bring together 300 practitioners, developers and researchers from government, local municipalities, academia, industry and civil society from over 50 countries from all over the world. Worldwide, governments are wrestling with a wide rang...

TOPICS: Come learn about all the programs GSA has available to State and Local governments: Disaster Recovery Purchasing: State and local governments can purchase products and services directly from approved Schedule vendors, both in advance of or in the aftermath of Presidentially declared disasters or acts of terrorism, to facilitate recovery. Cooperative Purchasing GSA’s Cooperative Purchasing Program allows state and local government...