VIDEO — Newsmaker: Interview With Hawaii's Chief Information Officer Sonny Bhagowalia

By Nanea Kalani 09/09/2011

Office of Information Management and Technology

Editor's note: Civil Beat's Nanea Kalani interviewed Sonny Bhagowalia on Sept. 13. Watch a video of the conversation below.

Gov. Neil Abercrombie described Hawaii as "entering the 21st century" when announcing the hiring of Sanjeev "Sonny" Bhagowalia as the state's first chief information officer in June.

Bhagowalia heads the state's newly formed Office of Information Management and Technology1. He officially came on board July 6.

Abercrombie has laid out an ambitious mission for Bhagowalia: "Transform Hawaii's outdated technology infrastructure into a modern system that will make government more efficient and improve services for the people of Hawaii."

UPDATE: The video below is a recording of the live interview held in Civil Beat's newsroom on Sept. 13.


  1. Disclosure: The Office of Information Management and Technology was funded in part with a $3 million grant from the Omidyar Ohana Fund, a donor advised fund established at the Hawaii Community Foundation through the support of Pierre Omidyar, publisher of Civil Beat, and his wife, Pam.
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