| Virginia makes a digital leap forward
Virginia Business
September 2004
Geeks,
take heed. Virginia is now considered one of the most
technologically savvy states in the country, having
recently been ranked third by the Center for Digital
Government based on the results of its 2004 Digital
State Survey. The finish, behind Michigan and Washington,
is three spots higher than the last survey in 2002.
Before that Virginia foundered in the bottom half of
e-government rankings.
“Virginia has taken this survey by storm. They
have done more than any other state in the shortest
amount of time,” says Cathilea Robinett, executive
director for the Center for Digital Government, which
bases the survey on best practices, policies and progress
made by state governments in their use of technology
to improve and streamline services. “It is extremely
impressive.”
Gov. Mark Warner credits the IT reform effort he initiated
to change the state’s decentralized IT infrastructure
into a consolidated centralized agency and change the
way government purchases and manages IT. The efforts,
Warner says, helped Virginia to not only “achieve
significant cost savings but to improve the efficiency
of vital services and give taxpayers a higher return
on their investment.”
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