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Louisville’s Award-Winning Redlining Map Helps Drive Digital Inclusion Efforts
Louisville, Ky., has garnered much praise for an award-winning data map that visualizes the modern day effects of redlining — a practice that dates back to the 1930s, and involves racial and...
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3 Methods for Meeting Government Social Media Goals
You may already know that keeping an updated content calendar is a good way to manage content for your agency’s social media profiles, but what are some of the best methods for actually doing it?...
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GT on the Street: Is Government in Sync with a Modern Workforce?
In part two of our continuing series GT on the Street, we talked to young tech professionals and CIOs about a major factor keeping millennials out of government: its policies. Most employees want a...
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Las Vegas Looks to Expand Computer Vision Technology Pilot Program
Las Vegas is in talks to expand a pilot program that uses sensors with computer vision technology to count vehicle and pedestrian traffic, thereby creating a sort of Google Analytics for information...
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How Government Can Be More Like Google
Montana CIO Ron Baldwin is doing his part to usher his state technology office into the modern era. In fact, it's work that's been underway for quite a while. At the NASCIO Midyear conference earlier...
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Former Travis County, Texas, CIO Tanya Acevedo Settles in with Houston...
After roughly five years as the CIO of Travis County, Texas, Tanya Acevedo is embracing a new role — as chief technology officer for the Houston Airport System (HAS). And though the new job comes with...
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Defending Against the 4 Stages of a Ransomware Attack (Industry Perspective)
Cybersecurity threats, like ransomware, are a growing concern for the government sector. While the recent Petya ransomware attack hasn’t impacted the U.S., there are plenty of reports of ransomware...
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Insights from America's Most Digital Counties of 2017 (Infographic)
Each year, the Digital Counties Survey looks at how regional governments of all sizes are using technology to innovate and improve how they serve their constituents. Conducted by the Center for...
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What’s New in Civic Tech: Washington, D.C., Forms New Data Science Team
Washington, D.C., has formed an in-house data science team aimed at using data to help inform the decisions made throughout the city’s government. Dubbed Lab @ DC, the team is being lauded by Mayor...
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San Francisco’s Startup in Residence Program Seeks to Expand Across North...
In 2018, San Francisco’s Startup in Residence (STiR) program, which embeds fledgling technology companies inside government to help solve public-sector problems, is looking to expand into other cites...
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FirstNet Becoming a Reality as the Number of States Opting in Grows to Seven
The summer of 2017 may well be remembered as the time when the nation’s broadband first responder network stopped being just an idea and started to become a reality. Congress created the First...
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GT on the Street: Does the Private Sector Have a Monopoly on Innovation?
Many young people looking to make their mark in the workforce are drawn to the allure of a company like Google, where they feel their ideas and creativity would be nurtured. Those same young people...
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Could the Missouri Prescription Drug Monitoring Program's Use of...
Missouri’s new statewide Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP) should be operational later this summer, the state’s top health official told Government Technology — and will not conflict with...
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Montgomery County, Va., Pilots Smart Bullet-Proof Vests that Contact 911...
Bullet-proof vests worn by law enforcement officers are adding another layer of safety — this time, it's in the form of electronic communications. Officers with the Montgomery County, Va., Sheriff’s...
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Where Next for Microchip Implants?
The mainstream media is full of stories this week about a Wisconsin vending machine company that plans to embed a rice-size microchip in the hands of employees on a voluntary basis on Aug. 1, 2017....
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Law Enforcement Breakdown: Agencies by Type Across the Country
When it comes to technology for law enforcement and public safety, there are a lot of companies offering up new ideas. There’s ShotSpotter, which recently went public, offering sensors to detect...
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GT on the Street: The Challenge of Recruiting Millennials
Graduates in computer science fields typically have a lot of choices when it comes to embarking on a career path. GovTech talked to young tech professionals to see if a job in government was on their...
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Smart City Tech Experts Gather in Kansas City for Annual Gigabit Summit
Hundreds of government tech officials, entrepreneurs and others who might geek-out at the sound of “smart cities” or “fiber network” are gathering in Kansas City, Mo., this week for the third annual...
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Report: What States Are the Best for Data Innovation?
In the premiere edition of a new report, a nonprofit think tank has recognized states for their innovation when it comes to data. The Best States for Data Innovation, released on Monday, July 31 by...
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GT on the Street: Public CIOs Make their Pitch to Lure Millennials into...
Do millennials want to work for government? The short answer is ... sort of. As we covered in a previous GT on the Street, some do simply because they want to give back to their communities, while...
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