The Utah Government Information blog:

Utah's CIO Resigns Phil Windley, Utah's Chief Information Officer, resigned Wednesday, saying he had "become an impediment to implementing our vision for eGovernment and an efficient and effective information technology infrastructure."

I met him at the Digital ID conference. He thinks deeply about the balance of public interests raised by this technology. He argues that the heavy lifting of creating a customer/citizen-centered view of state databases suggests a single sign-on and perhaps a single digital ID.

He's a friend to enterprise blogging, encouraging everyone in his org to start weblogs.He blogged his resignation and posted a follow-up.

Windley's leaving hurts. There aren't so many clueful executives in eGovernment that we can afford the loss.