Government Exploring Green IT

In a fascinating article from Baseline Magazine, one author takes a closer look at the current trends in government agency information management. The main findings show that more and more government departments are moving toward greener IT, which definitely means that electronic document management is on the horizon. It only makes sense, since efficiency and security are both such huge concerns in government.

From Baseline:

The National Association of State Chief Information Officers, an industry association based in Lexington, Ky., indicates that IT consolidation, security, resource sharing, Web 2.0, e-records management, and data and document management will be among the top priorities for its membership in 2009. Spending increases in the federal IT market are expected to slow down in the next several years—to just under 4 percent annually—after experiencing an average of 7 percent growth a year for the last two decades, according to INPUT, a market research firm in Reston, Va. INPUT projects that federal government IT spending will increase to $83.4 billion in 2009, up from $80.8 billion in 2008.