Archived Information

EDUCATION INFORMATION ADVISORY COMMITTEE

April 18, 2000

Slide 1
U.S. Department of Education
Office of the Chief Information Officer
Education Information Advisory Committee
Craig B. Luigart
Chief Information Officer
April 18, 2000

Slide 2
Title: Information Collected From States
(A diagram appears showing how Education's existing information collection process is a stove-pipe
process. Four separate boxes of paper [information collected] are directed to four separate Department
offices. A large red 'X' appears over this diagram to reinforce that this is an inefficient and ineffective
process.)

• Stove-Pipe Process
• Information collected for each office separately
• Information not distributed among offices
• Leads to: (A figure of a person pulling his hair out in frustration appears)
• extra burden on states for collection
• collection duplication
• delayed analysis of collected data

Slide 3
Title: Improved Information Collection
Chief Information Officer (CIO) is 'champion' of improved information collections (A knight in armor
holding a sword appears)

• Higher quality (A check mark appears)

• More timely (A figure of a person watching a clock appears)
• Less burdensome (A figure of a person sitting at a desk with 2 tall piles of paper appears)

Slide 4
Title: Associate Chief Information Officers(ACIOs)Assigned to Pull Department Together
(A diagram appears which shows the CIO connected to 5 ACIOs which are connected to Principal Offices.)

Slide 5
Title: Develop Enterprise Strategy Through 2001

• Develop Information Management Strategies

• Build Foundation
• Analyze data elements and collections
• Evaluate data standardization efforts
• Evaluate decision support systems
• Begin to evaluate the ED databases
 • Identify ideal information
• Establish partnership process

Slide 6
Title: Develop Partnership with EIAC
(A figure appears showing two people shaking hands with 2 sets of railroad tracks merging together)

• EIAC must be an active partner to achieve success in K-12

• Identify classroom reality
• Share creative ideas
• Continuous interactive process

Slide 7
Title: Future Trends

Technology Driver - Ubiquitous bandwidth

Trend - anytime, anywhere digital services will be the norm
Technology Driver - Smart environments
Trend - homes, offices and everyday objects will networked and intelligent
Technology Driver - Net-centric computing
Trend - Internet permeates all systems, spawning new products, applications, and services
Technology Driver - Knowledge discovery and exploitation
Trend - corporate knowledge will become a tangible asset; decision making will be faster and more
informed

Slide 8
Title: Future Trends continued

Technology Driver - High-performance computing

Trend - ultrafast computers will enable us to model reality and question it, to mine a huge amount of data
and prosper from it
Technology Driver - Virtual spaces and simulation
Trend - we will test ideas and experiences virtually (ie.,really but not really)
Technology Driver - Human-computer connection
Trend - everyone will communicate more naturally and effortlessly with computers; ultimately, technology
disappears

Slide 9
Title: Post Gutenberg Age

• Sony Play Station 2

• 66m polygons/second
• Networked Embedded Computers and Bluetooth
• Anywhere Computing
(A picture is shown of a man reading a message on a hand held computer during a meeting)
• Palm Pilot Visor/Handspring
• Blackberry - RIM
• Quartz - Symbian

Slide 10
Title: External Factors Driving as Well
• eGovernment
• eGAPS (Grants Administrative Payment System)
• A-130/Clinger-Cohen Act
• Paperwork Reduction Act
• Government Performance and Results Act
• Presidential Directives:
• 12/17/99 - Information Technology to Improve Our Society
• 12/17/99 - Electronic Government
• 12/29/99 - Electronic Commerce

Slide 11
Title: Direction and Speed

• Change is not in question or under our control

• Our focus is on Direction and Speed!
(A fleet of jets fly onto the screen)