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RUVIN LEADS COUNTIES’ IT PROFESSIONALS AT PTI ANNUAL CONFERENCE
County News, May 6, 2002
If Harvey Ruvin, NACo past president was able to accomplish so much during the Public
Technology, Inc. (PTI) Annual Conference held April 11-13 in Scottsdale, Ariz.,
imagine what he’ll be able to do next year when the conference is much closer to
home.
The elected clerk of the courts for Miami-Dade County, Fla., Ruvin was selected
as PTI’s first Public Technologist of the Year as he closely matched the requirements
of a long-term commitment to the implementation and use of technology and leadership
in the technology arena.
Minutes after accepting the award. Ruvin was back on stage and joined by other Miami-Dade
Employees to accept the PTI SOLUTIONS Award as the county’s SPIRIT Optical Imaging
Project entry took first place among large jurisdictions.
Ruvin who uses the project for the county’s courts, and County Manager Steve Shiver
called the project a team effort, and the county manager encouraged attendees to
be in Miami next April when the conference becomes PTI’s Congress of Public Technologists
and features the Big Expo.
The move to a larger conference is key for public technologists nationwide and for
PTI, a Washington, D.C, -based nonprofit technology research, development and commercialization
organization of NACo, the National League of Cities (NLC) and the International
City County Management Association (ICMA).
Ruvin and Shiver were also busy elsewhere during the conference Ruvin, who is an
ex-officio member of the PTI Urban Consortium Steering Committee (UCSC), participated
in a private focus group April 11 for Public Sector CXO magazine that focused on
if and how technology has facilitated the need for re-organization within government
jurisdictions. Shiver spoke at a session on E-Government’s Leadership Challenge.
In addition to the Miami-Dade County’s winning a SOLUTIONS Award, Arlington County,
Va., Sarasota County, Fla, New York City and Pinellas County, Fla., collected honorable
mention awards. David Molchany, the chief information officer of Fairfax County,
VA., received a PTI Technology Leadership Award.
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