About GTA
The Georgia Technology Authority seeks to ensure that the state’s IT infrastructure is stable, secure and well-governed, and provides Georgians with the services they need and expect.
More specifically, GTA:
- Manages the state’s IT infrastructure — data center, network and telecommunications services and security
- Establishes policies, standards and guidelines for state IT
- Promotes an enterprise approach to state IT
- Develops and manages the state portal, georgia.gov
GTA's statutory responsibilities also encompass:
- Technology enterprise management — methods for managing technology resources for state agencies; resources include data centers, servers, mainframes, PCs and laptops, wide and local area networks, telecommunications and technology personnel
- Technology portfolio management — approaches for analyzing and ranking the state’s technology investments
Looking to the future
In late 2007, Governor Sonny Perdue directed GTA to proceed with a plan to transform state government’s IT operations. Called GAIT 2010 (Georgia Infrastructure Transformation), the plan calls for consolidating IT infrastructure and moving both infrastructure and telecommunications delivery to external service providers.
GTA is restructuring to enable the organization to work as effectively as possible. A corporate layer is responsible for government and agency relationships and reporting. It includes:
- Budgeting and finance
- Enterprise Technology Planning - Responsible for strategic planning; policies, standards and guidelines; and project assurance
- Office of Information Security - Responsible for establishing technology security standards and services to be used by all agencies; GTA works with agencies to develop technical security standards
A Service Management Organization is being established to ensure the quality of the products and services GTA buys from external service providers.
GTA’s new vision, purpose and values
GTA has adopted a new vision, purpose and values to more clearly reflect the direction the organization is taking and the work being done.
Vision
- To provide exemplary customer service
- To enable business solutions for
- To lead change for
Purpose
- Improve agency service delivery through the effective and efficient use of technology
- Improve the maturity level of
- Reduce risk to
- Improve Georgians’ access to government services through the use of technology
Values
- Communicate candidly
- Commit to the customer
- Treat all members of Team
- Do the right thing
Results oriented
GTA delivers value through managing the delivery of IT services. The organization is committed to improving:
- The maturity of the state’s IT enterprise
- Agency service delivery
- Georgians’ access to government services