What’s next for the chief data officer?: Part 1

Since its inception during the last decade, the chief data officer position in state government has matured whereby half of the states now boast one. While the original CIOs were primarily embedded within the states’ “administrative” agencies, over the last several years more and more have been set up as heads of cabinet agencies. Over a dozen states now have a state CIO in their governors’ cabinets, and that trend appears to grow with each new election. John Thomas Flynn spoke to the Commonwealth of Virginia’s CDO Carlos Rivero on Ask the CIO: SLED Edition.