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IT's not easy for Govt CIOs

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PUNE, INDIA: Government will struggle with its new business role. Cyber-attacks will threaten financial systems. The government talent pool "leak" will slow, but replacements will be hard to find. Fraud detection will be necessary to protect health-care and finance programs.

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These are just some of the scenes from a crystal ball that research and consulting firm IDC's Government Insights holds for Government CIOs.

According to some predictions, Federal spending will flow, but not grow as in recent years. In view of Government Insights, 2009 will be a year of technological change, from increased shared services to new infrastructure programs.

As per a news report talking about this research in detail, with a $3 billion increase in the federal IT budget and a 3.4 per cent growth rate, government is the largest IT buyer but one faced with many key issues in 2009.

Some of them are as follows – imperative to learn new business and IT skills in a faltering economy, expectations from new leadership and citizens, the pressure on accelerating recovery and a tight fiscal climate that will lead to the tough balancing act of investment optimization while improving capabilities.

Other predictions in the report include Obama's communication style accelerating a high-tech communication boom, Gov 2.0 being redefined, move towards to hosted, pay-as-you-go models in infrastructure programs and use of shared services will accelerate due to budget and delivery demands. It also indicated that State budget shortages will change outsourcing relationships.