Girl Power: Delaware Promotes STEM Careers
05/02/2012Aiming to spark girls' interest in careers of science, technology, engineering and math, Delaware state agencies held a Digigirlz event on Tuesday, May 1. Sponsored by the Delaware Education Department, the Department of Technology and Information, the Delaware Center of Educational Technology, and Microsoft, the event was attended by 150 girls in the 8th and 9th grades.

Delaware First for Full Statewide Health Record Partipation
02/20/2012The Delaware Health Information Network (DHIN) announces that Delaware has become the first state to enroll all acute care hospitals in a Statewide Community Health Record.

The Rise Of Employee-Owned Mobile Devices
08/15/2011Fourteen states let employees use personal devices for work, according to a survey last year by the National Association of State CIOs.

Comcast, Delaware Bring Internet to Low Income Children
08/12/2011Comcast and the state of Delaware announced a partnership to bring computers and state-of-the-art Internet service to children from low-income families at low prices during a press conference at the Wilmington PAL Center off North Market Street.

Ambitious Broadband Adoption Experiment for Delaware
08/04/2011Internet essentials provides low-cost internet service, affordable computers, and digital literacy training to families with children eligible for a free lunch under the national school lunch program.

Delaware CIO Jim Sills Discusses Enterprise Data Management
08/01/2011Government Technology spoke with Sills in May at the National Association of State Chief Information Officers Mid-Year Conference in Washington, D.C.

Redundancy is the Key to Voice Over IP (VOIP) in Delaware
07/28/2011Unifying communications via an IP network is a little like putting all of your eggs in one basket: It is convenient as long as you can rely on the basket. The key to making voice over IP reliable? "Redundancy," said Mark Cabry, lead telecom engineer for Delaware's Technology and Information Department.

Delaware Gives One Voice to VOIP
07/28/2011As states go, Delaware is not that big. But it operates a large, distributed enterprise with a fragmented telephone system. For several years, the state has had islands of voice-over-IP telephone service riding on a statewide backbone. Now it is moving to take fuller advantage of VOIP by enabling centralized management and unified communications.

Spanning the Miles - Spotlight on Unified Communications
07/27/2011"Delaware's unified communications deployment aids telework, allowing employees to continue to be productive while working remotely."
- Bill Hickox, chief operating officer, Delaware Department of Technology and Information

Future Cybersecurity Workforce Heads to Summer Camp
06/30/2011Colleges in five states are hosting more than 200 students in cyber boot camps this summer as part of a program to relieve a critical shortage of skilled cybersecurity professionals.

State of Delaware Turns to Acme Packet for Telephony Network
05/31/2011The State of Delaware sought a state-wide end-to-end IP communications infrastructure, to reduce expenses and improve collaboration. The state's Department of Technology and Information (DTI) turned to Acme Packet's high-capacity Net-Net Enterprise Session Border Controllers to address their demanding scalability and performance requirements

Delaware Relies on Verizon for Advanced Communications
05/31/2011When Delaware needed to expand services to residents and businesses while providing state employees with advanced unified communications tools, it turned to Verizon for a managed solution that will serve as the essential platform for a range of new applications and programs.

The First State Moves Forward With Verizon
05/31/2011Delaware is known as the first state because Delaware was the first state to ratify the United States Constitution in 1787. Now, more than 200 years after those momentous times, Delaware is making a case that it may be the first state in communications, and one of the nation's leaders, in government technology.

Wilmington University to Offer Ms. Connection IT Workshops
05/17/2011Information Technology (IT) is a growing field offering a wide variety of interesting and high-paying careers. Through a grant from the National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT) and Microsoft Research, Wilmington University is offering five workshops to introduce women to the possibilities of a career using IT.