Chief information technology officer for the state of Hawaii says we’re 30 - 40 years behind(!)

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The sound file here is really worth listening to. (I heard it on NPR this morning.) The IT officer said the state governments’ 18 departments use a total of 500 applications and that it will take at least 10 years to modernize.

From the site above: “One trillion computing devices will be connected to the internet by 2013 … and 3 out of 4 citizens will be dealing electronically with government agencies. But Hawai’i’s information technology is lagging far behind … according to one study…it’s among the bottom third in the nation. The state is trying to catch up…as HPR’s Wayne Yoshioka reports …“