Kansas Chief Information Technology Officer Lee Allen said the state's iKan mobile app has been downloaded by more than 350,000 of the state's residents since its April 2018 launch.

Gov. Laura Kelly said her decision to cancel the agreements with vendor CGI follows an earlier promise to improve transparency in the state.

A recent initiative is helping the state understand how the IT department's responds to incidents across the enterprise.

On Season 4, Episode 1 of Priorities, top tech officials from Kansas and Arkansas share challenges and goals of centralizing and outsourcing IT functions.

Eric Davis, a former CTO at several large corporations, will fill the newly created position while doubling as the state's chief technical officer.

Allen, who was named the state's chief information technology officer in July 2018, will stay in the job when Gov.-elect Laura Kelly takes office.

A new feature added to the state's citizen services app provides functionality officials say isn't available anywhere else.

Allen says his priority now is to shift the state's networking and data centers to service-based models so he can turn his focus back to driving value for the state's businesses.

A digital services app run by Wyandotte County and Kansas City now allows users to access state government services.