New website catalogs states’ digital-transformation executive orders

A new website showcases data on governors’ executive orders pertaining to states efforts to make their information technology more modern. By Keely Quinlan December 7, 2023 (Wigglestick / Getty Images) The Digital Service Network at Georgetown University’s Beeck Center for Social Impact and Innovation on Thursday published a new website that provides an overview of governors’ executive orders aimed at digital transformation. The new website includes a data dashboard and database of executive orders. It compiles and analyzes executive orders spanning the last decade. Users can search the orders by group or filter them by state or territory, year of enactment or topic. The group also highlighted a handful of executive orders that represent bold action, such as Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s order creating the Commonwealth Office of Digital Experience. Researchers at the Digital Service Network determined that 84% of states or territories have enacted at least one executive order related to digital transformation since 2013. Colleen Pulawski, the Digital Service Network researcher who led the project, said there’s a lot of variance in what states call “digital transformation.” She borrowed a definition from the consulting firm Public Digital: “applying the tools, culture and processes of the Internet era […]

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