Emerging Technologies Work Group Initiatives and Accomplishments

Work Group Mission:

  • Provide an avenue for government and commercial organizations to exchange information related to new technologies.
  • Facilitate the introduction, evaluation and sponsorship of topics relating to new and emerging technologies for consideration by The NYS Forum.

2009-2010 Accomplishments

For the program year of 2009 - 2010 Emerging Technologies led a collaborative effort of the Forums work groups to investigate Web 2.0 technology.

Activities included

  • Participated in the Webmasters Guild pilot of Ning
  • Facilitated Forum involvement in the CTG Social Media project / study
  • Developed agency communication & PIO level involvement
  • Gartner provided facilitation of a Purpose / Mission statement exercise
  • Development of project plan regarding the Forum's usage of Web 2.0 tools.
  • Used WebEx for several meetings & for the June presentation
  • Developed Web 2.0 resource information available to the Forum community
  • Interfaced with CIO/OFT Empire 2.0 work group
  • Developed Facebook site for NYS Forum

Presentations

  • March 2010 - The Benefits of Web 2.0 in Government
  • June 2010 - Web 2.0 - Answering your Questions

Education

  • March 2010 - The Benefits of Web 2.0 in Government
  • June 2010 - Web 2.0 - Answering your Questions

2010-2011 Projected Initiatives

The Emerging Technologies Work Group plans for the upcoming year.

  • Planning is underway for a presentation late September / early October on Master Data Management in collaboration with Dr Hao Wang, OMD and the CIO Council Enterprise Architecture Committee (9)
  • Discussion has commenced on topics identified to be of interest: (2)
    • E-Discovery
    • Call Center technology/consolidation
    • SOA
    • Open source software
    • Cloud Computing (collaboration with NYC initiative)
    • Enterprise Mashups
    • Topics specific to clusters (Health, Safety, Economic Development)
  • Monthly emerging technology mini updates at work group meetings.
  • Continue collaboration with other work groups with the goal of maximizing the value of the Forum offerings.
  • Consider topics on:
    • Web 2.0 Accessibility (3)
    • Data De-Duplication (5)
    • Mobile Solutions (4)
  • Attract members with more timely knowledge of what technologies are emerging that have implications for government sector applications. (2)