On this week’s episode of the Priorities Podcast, Colorado CIO Tony Neal-Graves offers his assessment of how the state can close the broadband gap with the influx of federal government funding from the American Rescue Plan and infrastructure package.
https://statescoop.com/colorado-technical-debt-federal-infrastructure/
Chris Mitchell, the director of the Community Broadband Networks Initiative at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, says the funding should indeed be enough, assuming “states are smart” with how they spend the money.
Maryland CIO Michael Leahy talks about his time in the music industry. Leahy, the current NASCIO president, owned a recording studio and was a radio DJ. He still writes and produces music in his spare time. Leahy and other government IT leaders’ work in music will be featured in an upcoming piece on StateScoop.
In the news this week:
Phil Wittmer is stepping down as Virginia’s CIO after less than a month on the job.
https://statescoop.com/virginia-cio-phil-wittmer-steps-down-one-month/
New York state is opening a “state of the art” cybersecurity facility in Brooklyn to serve as an operations center for state and local cybersecurity needs.
https://statescoop.com/new-york-opens-joint-cybersecurity-center-state-local/
New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell is requesting the city reverse its ordinance banning facial recognition.
https://statescoop.com/facial-recognition-new-orleans-mayor-cantrell-ban-overturn/
StateScoop’s Priorities Podcast is available every Thursday.
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