The CIO Executive Council is a working partnership between the Government Chief Information Office (GCIO) and NSW Government Agencies. It was established by the NSW Government CIO as a means of advancing the NSW Government’s ICT agenda and facilitating communication between the GCIO and agencies.

The CIO Executive Council comprises Chief Information Officers from a variety of NSW Government agencies who take a government-wide view whilst maintaining accountability for specific programs and operations in their own agencies.

The CIO Executive Council is the principal forum for providing executive level leadership for the development of government-wide ICT strategies. 

The CIO Executive Council in collaboration and partnership with GCIO, is responsible for:

• Developing, implementing and promoting government-wide technology policies, procedures and standards that support effective business solutions and delivery of better services to the community.
• Identifying and developing a government-wide portfolio of technologies and services that can be shared and used by all agencies.
• Implementation of the NSW Government ICT Strategic Executive Plan.
• Maximising use of common applications, infrastructure and processes to increase integration, better manage common business functions and reduce costs.
• Identifying opportunities to improve collaborative and competitive procurement arrangements by presenting a government-wide view to suppliers.
• Actively sharing operational experience, technical expertise, best practices, skills and resources with other agencies.
• Promoting the role of CIOs in the public sector and elevating information and communications technology as an executive-level issue in government.

 The Chair of the CIO Council is the NSW Government CIO. Membership on the Council is comprised of CIOs from the following NSW Government agencies:

The CIO Executive Council in collaboration and partnership with GCIO will establish permanent, ad hoc, or temporary working groups to support the efforts on priorities of the Council.

Each group, chaired by a Council member is responsible for:

• Developing options and issues for Council deliberation, including recommendations on courses of action.

• Preparing project plans with metrics to measure progress and advising and updating the Council as directed.

A number of working groups have already been established by the CIO Executive Council to commence the implementation of the People First programs of work.  These groups are already delivering results with the adoption of a standard government specification of the purchasing of PCs and the development of major projects for back-office application consolidation and telecommunications.