In a bid to stay ahead of the growing deployment of AI tools in education, Ohio has released an AI Toolkit for Ohio’s K-12 school districts.

Ohio’s Lake Erie College has received $150,000 in funding as part of the Ohio Department of Higher Education’s (ODHE) Teach Computer Science (CS) Grant Program.

With an eye toward the future, the state of Ohio is partnering with the private sector on the High School Tech Internship program, which aims to connect Ohio businesses with the tech talent they need while providing students with valuable work experience at an early age.

When I was appointed Massachusetts’ first CIO by Governor Bill Weld back in the early 1990s, coming directly from the private sector, few if any state IT leaders had similar backgrounds. Since that time, however, we see governors – especially newly elected ones – opting for the Weld paradigm, finding their CIO from outside the state workforce.

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine announced that seven teams from nine counties will participate in the second cohort of the BroadbandOhio Community Accelerator program.

Ohio schools will have access to a new, online individualized learning opportunity to accelerate math learning of middle school students statewide.

Ohio Governor Mike DeWine appointed Kirk Herath as the state’s cybersecurity strategic advisor, a new position created within DeWine’s administration.

Alongside state governments across the United States, Ohio Department of Administrative Services (DAS) is an IT service broker for a series of state agencies, helping to achieve economies of scale. Over the past five years, the team led by Renee Evans, enterprise service management program administrator for Ohio DAS Office of Information Technology (OIT), has modernized its systems to track costs and IT service consumption, invoice for service usage, and has given service owners and end users significantly improved visibility into IT usage trends.

The State of Ohio has established a governance model to better support IT optimization initiatives, due in large part to its success adopting new cloud platforms across agencies and dumping antiquated, siloed systems, said Renee Evans, enterprise service management administrator for Ohio’s Office of Information Technology (OIT).

With a desire to improve cross-agency communication and streamline IT service delivery, Ohio turned to ServiceNow for an enterprise IT service management tool.