The Indiana college town's former chief innovation officer, Santiago Garces, returned to run economic development after a stint leading Pittsburgh's IT efforts.

Indiana Chief Privacy Officer Ted Cotterill said several years of transforming the state's culture of enterprise data-sharing paid off during the health crisis.

A group of state and city IT leaders said the pandemic's made their departments more important than ever.

This second round of funding in a $100 million program has received $53 million in matching funds from 16 participating cooperatives and private telecom companies.

Sacks departed the state government in March after a bit more than two years as Indiana's top cybersecurity official.

Martin, who's been with the state since 2012 formally takes over the agency’s data initiatives, like efforts to combat COVID-19 and the opioid epidemic.

The Indiana Department of Child Services is developing new tools rapidly as the state reopens — a trend the agency's CIO said he expects to continue.

Kevin Jones, the chief information officer at the Indiana Department of Child Services, said the tool reduced case worker turnover by 18 percent.

A new digital map gathers information for all 92 of the state’s county sheriffs and, officials hope, will encourage local governments to use the state's web hosting services.