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Bill Schrier

Bill Schrier is the director of the Digital Communities program and deputy director of the Center for Digital Government at e.Republic.

In these capacities, Bill works with the private sector and CIOs of cities and counties in the United States to help apply information technology to the business of government.

Schrier retired as the chief technology officer (CTO/CIO) for the City of Seattle and director of the city's Department of Information Technology (DoIT) in June, 2012. In that capacity he oversaw a department of about 200 employees and a budget of $50 million which supported the information technology needs of the city government’s 11,000 employees and Seattle’s 620,000 residents.

Schrier’s responsibilities in Seattle included the city's data center, computing services, information security, website, municipal television station, community technology, electronic mail system, public safety radio system, telephone network, and data communications network. Schrier worked in information technology with the City of Seattle since 1982.

The City of Seattle's website, television station and technology projects have won a number of local and national awards, including "Best of the Web City Portal" in 2001, 2006 and 2011, was the #2 large Digital City in 2011, and won NATOA's "Best Municipal Television Station" four times for the Seattle Channel.

Schrier has been named a “Top 25 Doer, Dreamer and Driver,” one of Computerworlds “Premier 100” CIOs, and as a fellow of the Public Safety Foundation of America and also the Public Technology Institute.

Schrier is a retired officer with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. He is a graduate of Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa, and holds a Masters in Public Administration from the University of Washington.

E-mail: bschrier@erepublic.com
Phone: 206-255-2156
Twitter:  @billschrier
LinkedIn:  www.linkedin.com/in/schrier
Twitter: @dcommunities

Twitter: @billschrier

Recent Articles

Cyberhacked - Again
May 12, 2013 - Yet another major breach in government data systems was reported on May 9, 2013. What's a government to do to protect its citizens' data from loss or exposure? Here are four specific suggestions.

No more Collisions, Speeding Tickets & Jobs
April 07, 2013 - Driverless vehicles, intelligent transportation systems and widespread deployment of sensors foretell a time when humans no longer drive automobiles. In such a world there would be few car accidents, no speeding tickets and vast changes to government and private sector firms such as attorneys, insurance companies and hospital emergency rooms.

Are Government IT Departments and CIOs Irrelevant?
March 10, 2013 - With the advent of smart phones and tablet computers as well as fast-to-deploy cloud services, many IT Departments find themselves offering products and services which are old, slow and increasingly irrelevant to the business of government.

Could a City be Hacked to its Knees?
February 04, 2013 - The recent attack on the New York Times by the Chinese government is frightening. Could city and county governments be subject to similar attacks from criminals or "bad actor" nation states?

Will We Give up our Privacy to Keep our Guns
January 03, 2013 - In the last week of 2012, Congress extended FISA, which allows the Government to eavesdrop on email and other communications. At the same time, in the wake of the Sandy Hook massacre, the NRA and others called for major databases of the mentally ill to prevent them from acquiring weapons. Are we willing to give up our privacy and personal data to government-owned databases just so we can keep other rights, such as gun ownership?

What Public Sector workers should say to their CIOs
December 10, 2012 - Communications between employees and their supervisors, managers and CIOs could use improvement. In this blog post I suggest eleven things government workers should be saying to their supervisors.

I-Everything, the Death of Lawyers, and the Rise of Plumbers
October 11, 2012 - Given the minaturization of electronics and storage, we soon might carry a single device which is a true "personal assistant". But such devices may very well replace most jobs, including professions like the legal profession. What does this mean for the economy in general and for government specifically?

Just Another Apps Contest? Evergreen Apps and the Future
October 02, 2012 - The Evergreen Apps Challenge concluded in Seattle on October 1st, a contest for developers to use open data from the City of Seattle, King County and the State of Washington. There have been apps contests in other places, but this one is somewhat different. And where do we go from here for government transparency, open data, and apps?

CIO Champions and "Change"
September 30, 2012 - We hear a lot - especially from politicians - about "Change". But most of our lives need to be stable and grounded. How do we make appropriate "changes"? The White House this past week honored 13 individuals - including a number of local CIOs - as local innovators and Champions of Change. They know exactly how to make bold change using information technology

A Datapalooza at the White House?
September 09, 2012 - On September 14th the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy is sponsoring a public safety datapalooza, featuring open data and applications which use that data to better inform the public.

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