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Persistence Pays Off for Chesterfield County, Va.
May 2, 2012 By Colin Wood
Chesterfield County, Va., is upgrading county infrastructure and citizen-centric services in an attempt to continue the county’s critically acclaimed success of the past few years. The county placed first in 2010 and third in 2011 in its division of the Digital Counties Survey, which annually ranks participating governments on their usage of technology to achieve outcomes. County CIO Barry Condrey said gaining recognition took time, but he encourages underdogs to not be deterred.
The Road to Success
Through the awards, Chesterfield County was commended for its commitment to citizen service and the efficiency of its investments — two areas the county began focusing on six years ago, Condrey said. “We began looking at our technology money as investments, not just cost items,” he said. “We came up with an investment model, which gives us scoring criteria and involves looking at [county] departments from the lens of efficiency, effectiveness, citizen service — six or seven different criteria. That provides a scoring model for how to assess these projects.”
That change in philosophy, combined with an emphasis on enterprisewide systems and transparent government, was the starting point for the success that followed for Chesterfield County, Condrey said.
The county updated its website to be more user-friendly and transparent, receiving a rare grade of A+ from a government transparency clearinghouse called the Sunshine Review. The county also began offering services requested by
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As an almost 50 year old, computer sem-literate, I don't understand the concept of going no PC within 5 years. My concern is what happens to those that are not on board? There has to be elderly, anti-technology, those unable to comprehend and those too poor to afford technology. It would be great if we were all twenty-somethings with i-pod, android tablets aroun our necks. What of outmoded technologies? Maybe your neighborhoods have significant investments in technology, but we don't even have broadband.