Author: carverc

IDG’s CIO has named the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) as a 2021 CIO 100 award winner for its innovative technology solutions in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, including the GuideSafe™ exposure notification app and hybrid classroom technology.

This was very much an enterprise response to the pandemic with broad and significant contributions from the UAB students, faculty, doctors and staff across the institution including a number of external partners. This type of collaboration is what makes UAB an amazing place to work.

You can learn more by visiting the CIO Magazine website, the UAB news release, or the Birmingham Business Journal article.

The Enterpriser’s Project publish a new article from me on team recovery after the pandemic so that everyone is ready for the next sprint.

My team worked hard over the winter holidays to build a mental health app in collaboration with the students and the Department of Student Affairs. The app has been well received by the students during the pandemic and you can access the campus article on the topic which provides a very holistic view of its adoption and use. The app is available in the Apple and Google stores.

This paper was published in EDUCAUSE Review this week and documents the efforts of a university central IT organization in building an exposure notification app. The app used the Apple/Google framework.

I was fortunate enough to be quoted in the Harvard Business Review annual article on the future of technology and technology leadership as well as humbled to be included with such peers.

Great article from Meritalk discussing how CARES funding was used with some focus on my work at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

I was pleased to participate in a press release earlier today with the Alabama Department of Public Health as we released the Apple/Google exposure notification app for Alabama.

This project has been a tremendous success – the work of thousands to saves the lives of their fellow citizens during the time of pandemic. You can see the press conference or read the news release. The project has been widely covered in the press. You can learn more at https://www.guidesafe.org/exposure-notification-app/ .

We have been working very hard over the last couple of months innovating to address the coronavirus pandemic at UAB as well as the across the state. This has lead to a number of national and local interviews and news articles. You can see some of those stories listed below:

• Dell National CIO Chat Series
• Evanta Regional CIO Town Hall (not recorded)
• Birmingham Business Journal Interview of Technology Leaders
• UAB Reporter and Yellowhammer Story on Free-WiFi for college and K-12 students

With technology systems performing splendidly, we helped develop the symptom tracker software currently being used by 60,000 unique users, automated dozens of workflows, built an app that displays free wifi locations across the state, and published working remote merit badges which has been viewed more than 700,000 times. We even helped fix the local residential service of a local provider despite them.

Teaching and Learning University recently published an interview with me on practical security at K-12 as well as at the university level. It is a good read and captures a number of points that I have been emphasizing for years.

It has been a while since I have posted but I’ve been been very busy. Enterpriser’s project published a good article on a culture of learning. It is a good read on how to develop talent for today and the future.

EdTech also featured me in an article of the Trends to Watch in 2020. I discuss the role of engaging and delighting the customer. It’s their cover story for Spring 2020 and I am the first CIO interviewed in the article. Overall, a very good story and start to 2020.