How Forward-Thinking Investments Will Build the Future of Digital Government
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Jeremy M. Goldberg
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February 5, 2021
Long-awaited investment in government technology is finally here in the United States and now we must act. President Joe Biden recently announced his administration’s $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, and technologists rightly lauded his inclusion of $10 billion to modernize state systems and networks, improve cybersecurity, and fund the Technology Transformation Services. This acknowledges that governments are facing an unprecedented need to expand their digital and virtual services due to COVID-19.
The pandemic continues to create immediate demands for services, raises the government’s technology risk profile, and changes long-term expectations for how government interacts with and delivers services. To make the most of the momentum for change that’s now here, governments will have to look beyond 2021 and this crisis.