IT Leaders Define Innovation, Digital Transformation
Los Angeles County's chief information officer and the city's chief data officer spoke in a webinar about the practical meanings and applications of "digital transformation" -- and how vendors can play a role.
In The News Piece in Techwire
May 28, 2020
New America California was mentioned in TechWire for their latest online event, Reimagining Work and our Workforce Through Mobility and Digital Innovation.
IT leaders from Los Angeles city and county governments were among the participants in a virtual “mobility and digital transformation” roundtable conversation last week and, despite their different missions and constituencies, agreed on a couple of key takeaways:
Data and technology are vastly more valuable when their creators and their users are nimble and able to adapt quickly to change. That’s the key to digital transformation, said the city’s new chief data officer, Jeanne Holm.
Government must “redefine its relationship to the IT industry,” said Bill Kehoe, the county’s chief information officer, so the private sector plays a bigger role in devising solutions rather than simply responding to government technologists’ prescribed solutions.
“People often think about mobility as the movement of people and goods,” Holm said.” In cities, that makes a lot of sense. But I actually think that it also includes movement of data and ideas. How do we make that happen? … When we think about digital innovation, it’s really the ability to harness data and technology together to improve the ability for people to thrive in a way that’s ethical and respects data privacy.”
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