Ten Tech Innovations for State Government
By Dennis McCafferty | Posted 11-05-2012Ten Tech Innovations for State Government
1. California: Public Employer Readiness Team
Consolidated health/retirement benefits services that had required more than 109 different systems for 1.6 million recipients.

Ten Tech Innovations for State Government
2. Ohio: State of Ohio Business Intelligence
Saved the state $26 million by removing silo systems and reducing maintenance of user-created reports, among other benefits.

Ten Tech Innovations for State Government
3. Pennsylvania: ePermitting
Automated the Highway Occupancy Permits application process, reducing turnaround time from 30 days to 10.

Ten Tech Innovations for State Government
4. Michigan: Mi-Bridges Self-Service Portal
Allows 90% of client-case worker interactions involving food, medical, energy and other assistance to be conducted online without an office visit.

Ten Tech Innovations for State Government
5. Minnesota: Enterprise Unified Communication & Collaboration
Enhanced enterprisewide email, voice communication, video conferencing, IM, Web collaboration and other functions for more than 70 agencies.

Ten Tech Innovations for State Government
6. California: Video Interact Project
With a $20 billion state budget deficit, the agriculture department greatly reduced travel costs with this video conferencing solution. ROI on savings estimated at 177%.

Ten Tech Innovations for State Government
7. Idaho: Women, Infants, and Children Information System Program
Replaced a mainframe-based legacy system, reducing errors, simplifying enrollment and digitizing record-keeping for the food program.

Ten Tech Innovations for State Government
8. Pennsylvania: PA Food Safety
Automated the food-safety inspection process, allowing staff to conduct more inspections with better results. Inspection results now posted on public portal too.

Ten Tech Innovations for State Government
9. Kansas: Kansas One Government Electronic Democracy System
Migrated legislative bills, fiscal notes, appointments, committee minutes, etc., to cloud platform, saving the state $850,000 a year.

Ten Tech Innovations for State Government
10. North Carolina: Information Security and Continuity Management Information Sharing Portal
Deployed open-source tools to reduce false positives in threat analysis, so users can better assess and validate vulnerabilities.
