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On the latest episode of the Priorities podcast, North Dakota Chief Information Officer Shawn Riley explains his decision to leave state government next month for a role with Bitzero International, a cryptocurrency-mining and energy-development company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI left the normal private sector to go to the health care private sector because I wanted to make the world better for people,\u201d Riley said. \u201cI left health care to go to government, because they made this opportunity to make the world better for people. And I\u2019m leaving government to go back to the private sector again because of the same thing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Riley is set to become CEO of Bitzero’s American operations. Among the company’s projects<\/a> are converting a decommissioned missile site into a crypto mine and moving data centers onto more sustainable energy sources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s zero carbon displacement with heat capture and energy reuse,\u201d Riley says. \u201cSo it\u2019s a collection of technologies and methodologies that are helping us to be able to bring things like data centers off of black energy into green energy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Later on the podcast, Dhwani Pandya, an IT director for the Connecticut Office of Early Childhood, talks about the agency’s new Parent Portal. That project was recently nominated for a NASCIO State IT Recognition Award<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the news this week:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nevada is distributing its biggest-ever investment<\/a> in broadband, but plans could be complicated by a state law that limits municipal involvement. The NTIA, which is administering broadband money from last year’s infrastructure law, wants community-owned providers to have access to these funds. But Nevada is one of 17 states with laws restricting municipalities and counties from providing telecommunications services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nearly 1,700 state and local government agencies and education institutions have bought telecommunications products<\/a> made by Chinese firms banned from doing business with the federal government since 2015, according to a report from Georgetown University’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A workforce development program in Maryland will fund cybersecurity training<\/a> for up to 100 state technology employees. The program will send selected employees to the Baltimore Cyber Range for basic or advanced cybersecurity courses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

StateScoop\u2019s Priorities Podcast is available every Thursday. Listen more here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you want to hear more of the latest across the state and local government technology community, subscribe to the Priorities Podcast on <\/em>Apple Podcasts<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>Google Podcasts<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>Soundcloud<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>Spotify<\/em><\/a> and <\/em>Stitcher<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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