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Editors: Matt Williams, [email protected] Elaine Pittman, [email protected] Jessica Mulholland, [email protected] Chad Vander Veen, [email protected] Managing Editor: Karen Stewartson, [email protected] Chief Copy Editor: Miriam Jones, [email protected] Staff Writers: Hilton Collins, [email protected] Brian Heaton, [email protected] Sarah Rich, [email protected] Editorial Assistant: Natalie August, [email protected] DESIGN Creative Director: Kelly Martinelli, [email protected] Art Director: Michelle Hamm, [email protected] Senior Designer: Crystal Hopson, [email protected] Recognizing Public- Illustrator: Tom McKeith, [email protected] Production Director: Stephan Widmaier, [email protected] Production Manager: [email protected] Sector Excellence PUBLISHING VPs OF STRATEGIC ACCOUNTS: Jon Fyff e, jfyff [email protected] Stacy Ward-Probst, [email protected] hen we launched Government and the mayor of Chattanooga, Tenn., who Chul Yim, [email protected] Leilani Cauthen, [email protected] Technology’s annual Top 25 issue in spearheaded a citywide broadband project Arlene Boeger, [email protected] March 2002, our goal was simple: to that delivers some of the country’s fastest Inter- SALES DIRECTORS: W Leslie Hunter, [email protected] recognize the excellence we encounter every day net connection speeds. It includes the CIO of Shelley Ballard, [email protected] in the public sector. Montana, who launched a multistate eff ort to Liza Mendoza, [email protected] Kenny Hanson, [email protected] One of the nicest things about my job is that I store GIS data in the cloud, and the CIO of Indiana Tracy Meisler, [email protected] get to regularly rub elbows with some of the bright- University, who used open source software to Kim Frame, [email protected] ACCOUNT EXECUTIVES: est people in state and local government — and collaboratively create administrative software John Enright, [email protected] the same is true for a number of my colleagues at used by multiple institutions. Kevin May, [email protected] Gloria Leacox, [email protected] Government Technology and its parent company, Most of our 2012 winners come from inside Paul Dangberg, [email protected] e.Republic. Over the course of a year, we interview government, but others run startups or nonprof- Lara Roebbelen, [email protected] David Rogers, [email protected] hundreds of state and local offi cials about innovative its that have profoundly infl uenced public-sector ACCOUNT MANAGERS: technology deployments for Government Technology IT. For instance, we’ve honored the creator of Melissa Cano, [email protected] Erin Gross, [email protected] magazine and Govtech.com. We also talk to them YouTown, a suite of mobile apps that allows Noel Hollis, [email protected] face-to-face at more than 200 live events. agencies to easily launch open data off erings. Stephanie George, [email protected] BUS. DEV. MANAGERS: The Top 25 became our way of honoring the We also recognized the founder of Code for Glenn Swenson, [email protected] most impressive individuals we meet. We call America, a nonprofi t that matches open source Son Strachan, [email protected] Maggie Ransier, [email protected] them “Doers, Dreamers and Drivers” in recogni- software developers with cities that want to SALES ADMINISTRATORS: tion of the commitment, vision and plain old hard undertake innovative technology projects. Christine Childs, [email protected] Heather Woodhouse, [email protected] work that’s required to move government forward In all, we’ve honored nearly 300 individu- Carmen Mendoza, [email protected] despite the obstacles. als over the years — from the biggest names in Jessica Stefani, [email protected] Alexis Hart, [email protected] Ten years after that inaugural issue, we’re still at our market to unsung heroes, toiling under the Director of Marketing: Andrea Kleinbardt, [email protected] it. And given the fi erce challenges and huge oppor- radar to improve their communities. These days, Sr. Dir. of Cust. Events: Whitney Sweet, [email protected] tunities facing states, cities and counties, we think government gets too much blame for causing Dir. Custom Media: Jeana Bruce, [email protected] Dir. of Web Marketing: Zach Presnall, [email protected] our original goal of recognizing public-sector excel- problems and not enough credit for solving them. Web Advertising Mgr: Julie Dedeaux, [email protected] lence and innovation is more important than ever. Government Technology’s Top 25 shows that Subscription Coord.: Eenie Yang, [email protected] As usual, this year’s winners are a distin- there are a lot of talented and dedicated people CORPORATE guished and varied collection of people. working in public agencies across the country CEO: Dennis McKenna, [email protected] Executive VP: Don Pearson, [email protected] Our 2012 list includes the New York City Police — and we’re all better off because of them. Executive VP: Cathilea Robinett, [email protected] Department CIO, who led a technology turn- CAO: Lisa Bernard, [email protected] CFO: Paul Harney, [email protected] around in the nation’s largest local police force, VP of Events: Alan Cox, [email protected] Chief Marketing Offi cer: Margaret Mohr, [email protected] Chief Content Offi cer: Paul Taylor, [email protected] Government Technology is published by e.Republic Inc. Copyright 2012 by e.Republic Inc. All rights reserved. Government Technology is a registered trademark of e.Republic Inc. Opinions expressed by writers are not necessarily those of the publisher or editors. Article submissions should be sent to the attention of the Managing Editor. Reprints of all articles in this issue and past issues are available RAISE YOUR VOICE (500 minimum). Please direct inquiries for reprints and licensing to Wright’s Media: (877) 652-5295, [email protected]. Your opinions matter to us. Send comments about this issue