My notes from a presentation I attended on March 21, 2007.

Presenter:
Dave Nikolejsin, Government Chief Information Officer (GCIO), BC

Hosted by: ISACA Victoria

• Generally working to enable information sharing for better outcomes.
• Changes to ICT development and governance within the BC government, guided by the OCIO, is driving business transformation across the province.
• Focusing on standards, process, IT governance, and specific goals are key success factors in the new model.
• Mr. Nikolejsin and the OCIO has largely completed a major redesign of ICT governance within BCGov. There is now clear authority and responsibility associated with the roles of the Government CIO (GCIO) and Ministry CIOs
• General work process within OCIO (think Deming cycle):
• Right things?
• Right way?
• Getting things done?
• Getting expected (measurable) results?
• New focus on implementing cross-ministry IT/IM services.
• Identity Management represents the locus of a large set of complicated issues -- technology, policy, and social.
• Scale of identities (BCGov perspective):
• 4.3m citizens
• 400k businesses
• 2m+ workers
• 600k+ workers in public service
• he is participating in pan-Canadian IdM taskforce(public sector, closed); e.g. work item: shared information management classification model.

Some links:

Office of the Chief Information Officer

BC Public Sector Identity Management Forum