1. The Brookings Institution
Metropolitan Policy Program
CIOs and Economic Development:
Harnessing Information to Drive the Economy
Emerging Components Task Force
MITRE Corporation, October 25, 2005
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2. A new importance for role of CIO in economic development
As a demanding buyer for sophisticated information services
CIOs can directly impact growth of robust software and technology clusters
Example: WPAFB/Dayton Ohio
Deploying “e-government” services extensively throughout enterprise
CIOs can push companies to adopt e-business platforms that will provide productivity savings across their entire supplier/producer network
Example: Ohio’s Workers Compensation Program
Building infrastructure to extend enterprise and link to universities, education institutions
CIOs can lower costs of connectivity across state government, advance research agenda for university/education and boost competitive pricing for infrastructure services in remote areas of states
Example: Connecticut’s Dark Fiber Initiative
As an exemplar for early deployment of advanced services
CIOs can force change in private sector markets by incentivizing development of “leapfrog” technologies
Example: Kentucky’s Affordable Housing Initiative
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3. Information from the Digital Enterprise Powers Economic Change
Insights
Knowledge
Analysis
Information
Data
ACTION
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4. The Next Challenge: Harnessing Information to Drive Markets
Fully implemented, the digital enterprise lays the groundwork for more…
Open, accessible, transparent information tools can be used widely to:
Support better public choices
Connect citizens to their government and to the economic mainstream
Make our communities competitive places for investment in the next decade
Map our future, set goals and measure progress
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5. Information is crucial to investment decisions that move the US economy
The Information Cycle
Market Actors
Urban Markets
Data
Reporters
Business
Individuals
Government
Agencies
Banks
Creditors
Collection
and
“Report-to”
Agencies
Federal
State
Local
Private
Information
Analysts
Methods
Tools
Output
Access
Tools
Web tools
Publications
GIS maps
Business
And
Industry
Actionable
Knowledge US
Economy
Government
People
Key intervention points to generate new or enhanced info might be:
challenging collectors to collect standardized, usable information
encouraging collectors to make info more transparent and accessible
overcome the bias of consumer tools (ie Purch power per sq mi)
Community
Based
Organizations
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6. The Federal Role is Critical and PervasiveUS
Economy
Actionable
Knowledge
Market
Actors
Data
Reporters
Collection
Agencies
Information
Analysts
Access
Tools
Federal Government is involved in every step of the cycle:
Reporter: on own activities and administrative programs
Collection agency: for survey data and mandatory administrative records from business, taxpayers, etc.
Analyst: for major indices of economic performance, agency performance and outcomes data
Access Tools: publishes data in a variety of media and seeds a multi-million dollar information industry
Market Actor: Through administrative programs, invests in places, people and markets
Key intervention points to generate new or enhanced info might be:
challenging collectors to collect standardized, usable information
encouraging collectors to make info more transparent and accessible
overcome the bias of consumer tools (ie Purch power per sq mi)
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7. CIOs will remain at the center of economic development
Federal
Multiple efforts to
develop portals and
mapping interfaces
for public and
statistical use
State
Extensive investment in
Egovernmnent initiatives;
Significant source
Of administrative
records
Local
Development of network
Of community statistical
Systems with ability
To collect and
Analyze data for
Local input
Technology
Enable a more effective, seamless US statistical infrastructure empowering better public choice
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8. NICS Community of Practice
State Agencies
State Data Users
Federal Agencies
Community Data Users
National Infrastructure for Community Statistics
(NICS)
Commercial
Private Sector Users
Foundation/ Investor Users
NICS Community of Practice
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9. NICS Community of Practice
State Agencies
State Data Users
Federal Agencies
Community Data Users
Data
Comparisons
Analysis
Live links to data sources
Metadata standards
Web-service tools
National Infrastructure for Community Statistics
(NICS)
Commercial
Private Sector Users
Foundation/ Investor Users
NICS Community of Practice
Collaboratively plan and invest
Standard interface, metadata, tools
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10. NICS Community of Practice
State Agencies
State Data Users
Federal Agencies
Community Data Users
Middleware tools
Access Protocols
National Infrastructure for Community Statistics
(NICS)
Web Services
Metadata Standards
Privacy Standards
Commercial
Private Sector Users
Foundation/ Investor Users
NICS Community of Practice
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11. Towards a National Infrastructure for Community Statistics (NICS)
Network of links between public and private data sources and users at the community, state, regional, private sector and federal levels
An “information bus” powering thousands of state, local applications
Cooperative venture between governments, non-profits and private sector
Currently in “organization” phase
Over 40 Federal agencies
100s of community statistical systems
Now soliciting state-level involvement
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12. NICS will help to… Achieve better community outcomes
Lower costs for operating statistical infrastructure at local, state, federal levels
Quantify the payback on extensive e-government applications at state and federal levels
Use transactional data for program evaluation and change
Provide easy access to benchmarking data from comparative communities, programs, state, national level
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13. Overall NICS Development Process
Phase I: Develop concept
Phase II: Understanding User Needs for NICs
Local, state, federal
Phase III: Implement NICS
Lots of players, lots of parts!
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14. Questions, Comments? Contact: Pari Sabety
Director, Urban Markets Initiative
Metropolitan Policy Program
The Brookings Institution
1775 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
Phone: (202)
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