2010 Minnesota Legislative Conference - Minnesota State Legislature

“Thinking 21
st

Century”


presented to


2010 Legislative Policy Conference

State of Minnesota

P.K. Agarwal

Chief Technology Officer

State of California

18
th

Century

Marrying of The Waters

19
th

Century

Transcontinental Railroad

May 10, 1869

20
th

Century

Conquering the Last Mile

Good Roads Movement


World Wide
Catalog!

“You may go to an
average store, spend
valuable time and select
from a limited stock or
have our BIG STORE of
W
ORLD
W
IDE STOCK
come to you at
ECONOMY PRICES in
this catalogue
–

THE
MODERN WAY!”

21
th

Century

The Vision of
the Future

Network Everything

Secure Robust
Infrastructure


Everything
–
Smart Everything
Connected
–
Everything Digital

•
Everything is Going Digital

–
Computers (ENIAC)
–

1946

–
Letters (e
-
mail)
–

1960s

–
Slide rules (calculators)
–

1972

–
Watches
–

1973

–
Pinball (video games)
–

1975

–
Telephone backbone
–

1980

–
Music (CDs)
–

1982

–
Maps (GSM)
–

1994

–
Videos (DVD)
–

1995

–
Television (DSS)
–

1994

–
Cinema
–

2000

–
Cameras
–

2000

Telephone (VOIP)
--

2003

–
Household appliances
–

?

“Pay as You Drive”

Tagged, You Are It!

Someone Hacked Into My Shoe!

Services 79%
Manufacturing
18%
Agriculture 3%
Fastest Growing Occupations

#1

Consolidation

California

•
$3 billion

•
130
CIOs

•
10,000 IT staff

•
Federated
Model

Michigan

•
$365 million

•
19 different IT
Organizations

•
1,700 IT staff

•
Total
Consolidation

28

Minnesota

•

$600 million

•

66 different


agencies

•

2,400 IT staff



29

#2

Streamline the
Back Office

SWIFT
System

#3

Everything On
Line

•
eServices

•
eLicensing

•
Business One
-
Stop

•
Streamline the Process of Creating New
Business

#4

Nurture IT
Enabled
Enterprises

IT and Economic Development

Electronic Health Records

$20 billion

Smart Grid

$4.5 billion

Broadband

$7.2 billion

Jobs Creation: ~900,000

Total Jobs Lost Since Dec. 07:

7.0 million

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/26/technology/26techjobs.html

https://ia.cpuc.ca.gov/CommChong/post/Recovery
-
Act
-
Funds
-
for
-
Smart
-
Grid.aspx

http://www.whydom.com/2009/02/19/the
-
recovery
-
act
-
delivers
-
broadband
-
growth

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm

#5

Open
Government

Civic
Engagement

Do You Twit?

TLDNR

Too Long, Did Not Read

The
Medium

is the
Message


The form of a message (
print
,
visual
,
musical
,
etc
.) determines the ways in
which that message will be perceived.

Marshall McLuhan

The
Medium

is the
Message


Communication Media, such as
radio
,
television
,
films
, and
computers

have
far
-
reaching sociological, aesthetic, and
philosophical consequences, that it
alters the ways we experience the world.

Radio

Movies

TV

Internet

Data.gov

“Those individuals and societies
who resist this reality will fail; those
which accept it will survive, and
those which embrace it will
flourish.”


Mike Leavitt

Former Governor of Utah

The End