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Is a Flat Management Structure the Key to Recruiting Millennials?
When millennials say they want to be heard and they don't want to be told what to do, Washington officials are listening. At the NASCIO Midyear conference earlier this year, CIO Michael Cockrill...
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Alabama Acting CIO Jim Purcell Is a Man on a Mission for Smarter State IT
Jim Purcell wasn’t expecting a call from Alabama’s new governor, Kay Ivey, and he certainly wasn’t expecting her to ask him to head up the Office of Information Technology (OIT) — but that’s exactly...
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Artificial Intelligence: Where Do County Governments' Investment Priorities...
When it comes to artificial intelligence (AI), the top investment priority for county governments is data analytics. That’s the finding from the 2017 Digital Counties survey from the Center for...
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Digital Counties Survey 2017: Winners Focus on Knowing When, How to...
County government is increasingly leading the way when it comes to deploying technologies that matter to everyday citizens. Where innovation and out-of-the-box thinking used to fall to bigger,...
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The Districts Podcast: Detroit and Houston or Bust
On the eve of a Special Districts road trip to Detroit and Houston, we meet Bob Graves, who is not only part of the ensemble cast of The Districts podcast but the "animating figure" of the Special...
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Fifty states don’t necessarily translate into 50 distinct IT organizational structures, but it could be close. While department names and reporting relationships involving technology vary quite a bit...
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Editor's note: Ask Joe will be a recurring series where Joseph Morris, vice president of research for e.Republic, Government Technology's parent company, answers commonly asked questions from those...
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What’s New in Civic Tech: Seattle Wins National Awards for Digital Equity...
Seattle’s Information Technology Department has won two awards from the National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors for its efforts to foster digital inclusion within the city....
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Don't Fix the Worst First: How Next-Gen Tech Tools are Changing Road...
As city populations nationwide continue to grow, more residents move out of urban cores and into peripheral suburbs, causing an increase in commutes (PDF) — which puts more strain on already-decaying...
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Sloughing Off the Government Stereotypes
Government CIOs across the board are being forced to confront the retirement wave that’s about to decimate their ranks. But does the next generation of IT pros want the jobs their parents and...
View ArticleAsk Joe: So I Got on a Government Contract ... What Now?
Editor's note: Ask Joe will be a recurring series where Joseph Morris, vice president of research for e.Republic, answers commonly asked questions from those working in the government technology...
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U.S. House Subcommittee Approves Self-Driving Legislation Pre-Empting State...
On July 19, the U.S. House Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection (DCCP) unanimously approved a legislative markup (PDF) to advance self-driving vehicle technology. Navigating the...
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Seattle Appoints Smart City Coordinator
In March of this year, things were different. Bruno Mars topped the charts, the latest installment of the Fast and the Furious franchise had yet to be released and Sean Spicer was still U.S. press...
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Book Review: Borderless Behavior Analytics
As we head towards 2020, our cyber defenses must evolve rapidly to keep up with growing breadth and depth of online threats. Even as exciting digital advances are announced daily in virtually every...
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GT on the Street: Do Millennials Want to Work for Government?
Millennials make up about one-third of the current American workforce, but those numbers don't quite hold up in government. That fact, coupled with the public sector's well-documented retirement wave...
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Tips for Guarding Against Untraceable, 'Fileless' Cyberattacks
A cybercrime trend with alarming implications for public agencies remains popular as the year wears on; called "living off the land," the technique is drawing increased interest from attackers looking...
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California's Riverside County Names New CIO, Broadband Project Manager
Riverside — California’s fourth most-populous county — has named a new top technology official and a manager of efforts to bring high-speed broadband to its more than 2.3 million residents. Dave...
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Austin Uses 'Speed Dating' with Summer Interns to Spur Innovation
A group of high school interns spent six weeks working within various departments in Austin, Texas’ city government, and the end result was a host of impressive tech-based solutions for civic problems...
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How Delaware Solved Its Space Problem
One of the benefits enjoyed in many modern workplaces is the option of teleworking, whether it's part time or full time. Employees can eliminate their commute, avoid office distractions and, often,...
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Interagency Data Sharing Agreement Helps Mississippi Feed its School Children
Until recently, Mississippi had a problem feeding its school children. Despite the free or reduced-cost lunch program, a portion of students were going unfed during school hours. As learning requires...
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