The
Michigan
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Department of Information Technology (DIT) was a principal department of the
Michigan
Michigan ( ) is a peninsular U.S. state, state in the Great Lakes region, Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest, Upper Midwestern United States. It shares water and land boundaries with Minnesota to the northwest, Wisconsin to the west, ...
state government created in 2001 to manage the use of technology in the government and was merged in 2010 into the Department of Management and Budget, then renamed the
Department of Technology, Management, and Budget.
History
Governor Engler created the department in 2001 via Executive Order to centralize information from all the principal departments.
In 2009,
Governor
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Jennifer Granholm
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merged the Department into
Department of Management and Budget naming the then DIT Director as director of the department, and the current DIT deputy director as temporary director of the Department of Management and Budget.
The Executive Order was effective on March 21, 2010.
References
Information Technology, Department of
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