CIO - The Project: Deploy quick response (QR) codes to the town of Manor, Texas (population 5,800), beginning with public records and expanding to historical sites, municipal buildings and police vehicles. QR codes are a type of bar code that can be read by an application available for download to most camera-equipped cell phones. Users scan the code, launching a webpage where they can learn more about the tagged item.
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The Business Case: When Dustin Haisler was appointed Manor's first CIO two years ago, he created a list of modernization projects. First: Deploy a server. Second: Organize more than 500 boxes of data that included municipal court judgements, police and utility records and building permits. To search for specific documents, town employees relied on handwritten labels on the outside of each box that listed its contents. The process was time consuming and disorganized--especially painstaking during audit season, Haisler says.
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