Dan Chenok

Dan Chenok is vice president for technology strategy and senior fellow at the IBM Center for The Business of Government. He previously served in the Office of Management and Budget, as branch chief for Information Policy and Technology and has also held senior positions at Pragmatics and SRA International.

Posts by Dan Chenok

Integrating Privacy And Security: The US Government Steps Forward

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The U.S. government recently took a noteworthy step toward strengthening security and privacy, issuing a roadmap for how to make such improvements real and achievable.

Security and privacy are often viewed as competing values, where more security means more surveillance and intrusion on individual freedoms. But in fact this is a false dichotomy; when security and privacy are designed into systems up front, they can serve both to protect people against unwarranted intrusions and also guard against other risks. Keep reading →

 /  Published November 23, 2011 at 10:59 AM

Efficiency And Innovation Needed For Citizens Services Delivery

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A new report, “Partnership Fund for Program Integrity Innovation: Expanding Ways to Provide Cost-Effective Services,” provides insight into a program through which federal agencies work with states and cities on improving performance and reducing cost in programs that serve citizens.

A new report written by the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA), the Partnership for Public Service (PPS) and the IBM Center for The Business of Government, “Partnership Fund for Program Integrity Innovation: Expanding Ways to Provide Cost-Effective Services,” discusses the goals and progress of the Partnership Fund, a program led by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Keep reading →

 /  Published September 22, 2011 at 10:07 AM

OMB’s CIO Memo: Clarifies and Reinforces Primary CIO Responsibilities

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COMMENTARY:
Earlier last month, OMB Director Jacob Lew released a memorandum for the heads of all federal departments and agencies, which focused on four areas for which all federal chief information officers (CIOs) have authority and “a lead role”: Governance, Commodity IT, Program Management, and Information Security. The memorandum further reinforced responsibilities of the Federal CIO Council to manage the federal IT portfolio across agency boundaries.

The OMB action provides impetus for CIOs to leverage Obama Administration initiatives in driving change in their agencies, and represents and important signal of support for the position from the Administration – especially notable in light of its issuance just as the new Federal CIO, Steve VanRoekel, was taking the reigns from Vivek Kundra. Keep reading →

 /  Published September 2, 2011 at 10:01 AM