About Us and Contact Information
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The Chief
Information Officer is the government’s
chief technology strategist, providing executive
leadership for the Office of the Chief Information
Officer (OCIO).
The OCIO has developed and will
be implementing government’s Information
Management and Information Technology (IM/IT)
Plan, a strategic enterprise approach for
information sharing to achieve better outcomes
and service transformation for citizens, while
ensuring value for money.
Mandated by Cabinet, the OCIO is also responsible
for the corporate management of IM/IT. As this
central governance
authority for IM/IT the OCIO develops, proposes,
maintains and evaluates compliance for corporate-wide
IM/IT policy, procedures and standards and provides
numerous related services
to ministries, public sector organizations, and
citizens.
As such the Office of the Chief
Information Officer:
- collaborates with ministries, broader public
sector organizations and private sector suppliers
to develop Information Management (IM) and Information
Technology (IT) strategies, policies
and standards.
- identifies key opportunities and proactively
promotes cross-government initiatives
that transform government’s ability to
serve the public.
- promotes and guides government’s management
of information as a strategic business asset
and to enable information use and sharing in
a privacy
protecting and secure
environment.
The OCIO’s lines of business are coordinated
to deliver transformational opportunities, provide
legislation, policy, compliance and planning support,
provincial connectivity and corporate operations
as follows:
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