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Over the past decade state and local governments have increasingly used information technology to support government operations. Many have developed intergovernmental information systems that perform only one business function or satisfy one program need. The result is a growing number of individual systems for government to government (G2G) business relationships at the state and local levels. 

This project seeks to create an Internet Gateway (or a single point of passage) to test and evaluate mechanisms for G2G business relationships among state and local government organizations in New York State.

The prototype will channel three separate G2G business processes involving state agencies and a number of local governments through one common access point. The project is designed to test whether such a gateway would provide state, county, and municipal governments with greater efficiency, higher quality data, and more consistent and coordinated services. Throughout the project, the Center will examine the policy, management, technology, and financial factors that influence the development of the prototype.

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Scope of Work

The State-Local Internet Gateway Prototype Project seeks to create an Internet Gateway (or a single point of passage) to test and evaluate mechanisms for G2G business relationships among state and local government organizations in New York State. 

The prototype will channel three separate G2G business processes from three state agencies through one common place. The project is designed to test whether such a gateway would provide state, county, and municipal governments with greater efficiency, higher quality data, and more consistent and coordinated services. Throughout the project, the Center will examine the policy, management, technology, and financial factors that influence the development of the prototype.

The project will be completed in two phases. Phase One will include the generation of a set of characteristics, benefits, and barriers to achieving an "ideal" State-Local Internet Gateway in New York State. In addition, CTG will lead an investigation into similar projects in New York State and elsewhere.

Finally, several state agencies and local governments will form a prototyping team to define the structure and content of the prototype.

More specifically, Phase One deliverables are as follows:

• Analysis of existing efforts in NYS that link state agencies and local governments in a G2G relationship.
• Documentation and analysis of the policy, management, technology, financial and other factors that influence the development of a State-Local Internet Gateway in at least one other state.
• Definition of a structure, or architecture, for a State-Local Internet Gateway in New York.
• Definition of the information and transaction content to be included in the prototype.
• A proposal for moving into Phase Two of the project, including garnering corporate partner support, and seeking funding for local government involvement for Phase Two of the project.

In Phase Two, CTG will lead, in conjunction with corporate partners and the prototyping team, the development, testing, and evaluation of the prototype.

The following is the approximate time frame for each phase:

• Phase One will continue until Spring 2003
• Phase Two will commence in Spring 2003 and end in Summer 2004

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Press Releases & News Stories

Press Releases

• CTG's Internet Gateway Prototype Tests New Efficiency and Coordination of State and Local Government Information Systems
• University at Albany Receives AT&T Foundation Grant To Fund Advanced System to Help Government Agencies Link Information
• Center for Technology in Government Builds Partnership to Enhance Intergovernmental Info Systems

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Publications & Results

Reports

• Constructing the New York State-Local Internet Gateway Prototype: A Technical View
• The New York State-Local Internet Gateway Prototype Project: Current Practice Research
• Bridging the Enterprise: Lessons from the New York State-Local Internet Gateway Prototype

Additional

• Lessons in Intergovernmental IT Governance

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Partners

Government Partners

Prototype Development Team 

• NYS Agriculture and Markets
• New York State Office of Real Property Services
• NYS Office of the State Comptroller
  
  
• Broome County, New York
• Essex County, New York
• Monroe County, New York
• Ontario County, New York
  
  
• City of Canandaiga [ Dead Link ] , New York
• City of Rochester [ Dead Link ] , New York
• City of White Plains, New York
  
  
• Town of Bethlehem, New York
• Town of Binghamton [ Dead Link ] , New York
• Town of Canadice, New York
• Town of Colonie, New York
• Town of Gardiner, New York
• Town of Union, New York

 Corporate Partners 

• AT&T
• CGI Information Systems & Management Consultants, Inc.
• Keane, Inc.
• Microsoft Corporation

 Academic Partners

• David  Landsbergen, Chair, Doctoral Studies Committee, Ohio State University

Center for Technology in Government

• Sharon S. Dawes, Project Director
• Meghan Cook, Project Manager
• Dubravka Juraga, Research Associate
• Chris Pagano, Project Associate
• Ben Schwartz, Graduate Assistant
• Derek Werthmuller, Director of Technology Services

Joe Aiello
Consultant, Digital Towpath - Niagara Mohawk

Gregory Benson, Jr.
Executive Director, NYS Forum for Information Resource Management

Thomas R. Bodden
Manager, Research & Information, Association of Towns of State of New York

Tim Bortree
Chief Information Officer,Monroe County

Carmella T. Carnevale
Technology Enterprise Accounts Manager, NYS Office for Technology

Sydney Cresswell
Director, Intergovernmental Solutions Program, University at Albany/SUNY

Dolores Dybas
Director, Information Systems, NYS Department of Agriculture & Markets

Patricia Favreau
Town Clerk, Town of Berne

Carole Francis
Statewide Applied Technology Advisor, NYS Office of the State Comptroller

Michele Hasso
Project Coordinator, NYS Office of the State Comptroller

Ed Hemminger
Chief Information Officer, Ontario County

Julie Holcomb
City Clerk, City of Ithaca

Geof Huth
Manager, Records Service Development, NYS Archives

Alan Kowlowitz
Public Technology Analyst, NYS Office for Technology

David Landsbergen
Chair - Doctoral Studies Committee, Ohio State University

Julie Leeper
Assistant Director of Strategic Policies, Acquisitions & E-Commerce, NYS Office for Technology

Robert Lilly
Director, Information Systems, Essex County

Carolyn May
Director, Community Development & Corporate Giving, Niagara Mohawk

Kim McKinney
Director of Information Technology, Broome County

Charlie Murphy
Assistant Secretary of State for Community Development, Department of State

Kathleen Newkirk
Town Clerk, Town of Bethlehem

Gene Pezdek
Director of Information Services, NYS Department of Environmental Conservation

Karen Prescott
AT&T

Thomas Ruller
Associate Programmer Analyst, State Education Department

Bruce Sauter
Chief Information Officer, NYS Office of Real Property Services

Laurie Savage
Assistant to the First Deputy Secretary of State, Department of State

Wendy Scheening
Manager, Information Systems, NYS Department of Agriculture & Markets

Gregory Smith
Chief Information Officer Division of Local Government, Services and Economic Development
NYS Office of the State Comptroller

John Woodward
County Clerk, Schenectady County

Participants

State Agencies

NYS Agriculture and Markets

• Mary Lou Acheson, Senior Computer Operator
• Patricia Arthur, Clerk I
• Roberta Brooks, Principal Clerk
• Jeffry Huse, Assistant Director of Animal Industry
• Wendy Scheening, Manager, Information Systems

NYS Office of Real Property Services

• Colleen Benson, Real Property Analyst III
• Sally Cooney, Real Property Analyst IV
• Tom Rutnik, Associate Computer Programmer Analyst
• Bruce Sauter, Chief Information Officer

NYS Office of State Comptroller - Division of Local Government Services and Economic Development

• Joan Darcy, Sr. Programmer & Computer Analyst
• Michele Hasso, Project Coordinator
• Carole Francis, Statewide applied Technology Advisor
• Gregory Smith, Chief Information Officer

Local Governments

• Tim Bortree, Chief Information Officer, Monroe County
• Richard Brown, Director of Development and Planning, City of Canandaigua
• Carolee Conklin, City Clerk, City of Rochester
• Diane Conroy-LaCivita, Deputy Town Clerk, Town of Colonie
• Bonnie Drake, Town Clerk/Tax Collector, Town of Canadice
• Barbara Fiala, County Clerk of Broome, Broome County
• Ed Hemminger, Chief Information Officer,Ontario County
• Robert Lilly, Director, Information Systems, Essex County
• John H. McDonald, Town Assessor, Town of Union
• Kim McKinney, Director of Information Technology,Broome County
• Anne McPherson,Deputy City Clerk,City of White Plains
• Michelle Mosher, Town Clerk/Tax Collector, Town of Gardiner
• Kathleen Newkirk, Town Clerk, Town of Bethlehem
• Susan Pufky, Assistant Director, Real Property Tax Service, Broome County
• Laura Kay Wharmby, Clerk/Treasurer, City of Canandaigua
• Judy Zurenda, Town Clerk, Town of Binghamton

CGI Information Systems & Management Consultants, Inc.

• Ashish Advani, Consultant
• Duane Benson, Technical Architect
• Bill Cunningham, Business Development Director
• Lorna Ganong, Director of Consulting Services
• Ed McGinley, Consultant
• Afzal Mohammed, Senior Consultant
• Brian Peek, Senior Consultant
• Mandy Prezioso, Senior Consultant

Keane, Inc.

• Bob Bush, Senior Consultant
• Christopher Desany, Technical Architect
• Joann Dunham, NYS Program Manager
• Teresa Gillooley, Project Officer

Microsoft Corporation

• Bill Branch, Client Executive, NYS

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Funding Sources

This project is funded by a portion of CTG's New York State budget allocation.

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