NASCIO Survey: State CIOs Study IoT, AI, Machine Learning

State IT chiefs see IoT, artificial intelligence and machine learning having the biggest impact among emerging IT areas in the next three to five years, said a 2017 survey released Tuesday by the National Association of State Chief Information Officers. While 69 percent of state CIOs are discussing only networked state devices, states with a road map increased to 15 percent in 2017 from 4 percent last year. Emerging networked devices are in 21 percent of state IT strategic plans, up from 9 percent. Funding is a major concern for about half of CIOs, it said. "Some states struggle with a mechanism to recover costs and balance that model with appropriations for enterprise-wide services like cybersecurity." Digital government is an enterprise priority for all state CIOs. Barriers are “agency readiness, budget, security/identity management and cross-boundary collaboration,” NASCIO found.