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State IT office highlights cloud growth and My Hawaii rollout in CIO annual report
Summary
ETS staff told the advisory committee the CIO annual report documents 23 departmental IT plans, a jump in tracked state applications from about 500 to roughly 900 and rising cloud hosting (now ~52–55%). Presenters also outlined My Hawaii, the new citizen digital identity platform now integrated with 96 applications.
The Office of Enterprise Technology Services presented its CIO annual report to the advisory committee and highlighted steady modernization across the executive branch, including broader cloud adoption and the rollout of a statewide digital identity platform.
Tur, identified in the meeting as the ETS IT governance officer, said the written report submitted to the legislature contains the agency’s mission, goals and major accomplishments and that ETS worked with departments to produce 23 departmental or divisional IT strategic plans now tracked in a portfolio-management system. "We have alignment from strategy to spending to IT projects," Tur said.
Jussi Sapola, ETS enterprise architect, walked the committee through portfolio metrics and application inventory. He said the set of major state applications tracked in the portfolio grew from about 500 in 2020 to roughly 900 today. He added that the share of applications hosted in cloud environments rose from about 22% several years ago to roughly 52% and is “maybe closer to 55 now,” a change he said is ongoing.
Bryce Fuji, technology support services branch chief, described My Hawaii, the state’s new citizen digital identity platform launched in April. "My Hawaii provides citizens with a single account to sign in to government services," Bryce said. He said the platform replaces an outdated identity-management system, adds stronger encryption and multifactor authentication, and is currently integrated with 96 state applications. ETS staff said future work will add fraud-protection capabilities and broaden federated login partners.
Committee members asked how smaller projects under the $100,000 procurement threshold are tracked; Sapola said those expenditures are recorded in the state accounting system (an older system that ETS is modernizing) and that the portfolio’s spend-request figures represent pre-procurement estimates rather than final actuals.
The committee had no formal votes on policy during the presentation; after the report ETS staff moved on to related agenda items and legislative updates. The meeting adjourned after members approved prior meeting minutes and confirmed the next meeting date.
