Kevin Nordhill, Treasury introduced the speakers from US Bank. Pat Lundeen summarized activity over the last 4 weeks on EC topics. The focus of the new EC Service Center is provide a secure environment to develop and host Internet transactions for state agencies that involve credit card payments or transmission of confidential data over the public Internet. Recruitment of the EC Webmaster and a database administrator begin in August. The third annual conference on electronic commerce in state government is co-sponsored by state Chief Information Officers, state Purchasing Executives, and state Controllers.
Registration is available on-line and agency staff are encouraged to participate.
Attending were committee members and a large group of agency financial and IT staff. US Bank and Treasury will work with the EC Service Center to develop the statewide technology solution for accepting credit card payments over the public Internet. Treasury and IRMD will begin meeting weekly to develop the technology plan. There are four finalists and the review process is underway. Over the 18 months of acting as a CA, they found it very demanding and complex.