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'Weigh-in-Motion' Tech Lets Idaho Truckers Zoom Past Weigh Stations
Large tractor-trailer rigs in Idaho are zooming past weigh stations, saving time and money. The state has four “weigh-in-motion” (WIM) systems on various routes popular among truckers. The WIM systems...
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Charlottesville, Va., Launches Its First Open Data Portal
After more than a year of discussion and development, Charlottesville, Va., has launched an open data portal that provides easy access to more than 70 data sets, as well as accompanying links that...
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What Technologies Do Cities Use for Citizen Engagement?
The civic engagement process has come a long way from bulletin boards and town hall meetings. Or rather, it’s added a lot of technology on top of bulletin boards and town hall meetings. In fact, use...
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Tech, Open Data Are Crucial in Long-Term Recovery Following Hurricane Harvey
Hurricane Harvey has dumped trillions of gallons of rainwater on Houston, causing catastrophic flooding that's reaping destruction and death throughout the city. Recovery efforts are likely to...
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After Hurricane Harvey Rescue Efforts: Texas Infrastructure Recovery is Just...
What a week in southeast Texas. So many dramatic stories of tragedy, weather impacts, devastation, loss of life and the human toll – and yet rescue, response, support, strength and hope in abundance....
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Automation Beyond the Physical: AI in the Public Sector
It used to be that the term “automation” meant robotic arms in factories doing repetitive tasks — fastening one part to another, drilling a screw, folding a piece of material. These days, the word...
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Are SuperClusters the Future of Gov Tech Collaboration?
Seeking to better connect all stakeholders in the gov tech space, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has created SuperClusters, which are international networks that share ideas...
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Kansas, Missouri Collaboration Aims to Improve Regional Cybersecurity
Officials in the Kansas City metropolitan area, which includes 119 cities and nine counties across two states, are in the early stages of forging a strategic framework that is expected to yield some...
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Beyond the Web: Inaugural Government Experience Awards Take a Holistic View...
The game has changed, and the measure of digital government services are no longer quantifiable in terms of how accessible or well-designed a website is. For many years, the Center for Digital...
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Ready. Set. Go! Luxury Cars Count Down to Green Lights
Put away the smartphone, pay attention to the traffic. That red traffic signal you’re stopped at will be turning green in a few moments. How do you know this? The car tells you so. That is, if you...
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Brandon Williams, Colorado Digital Transformation Officer, Prepares to Leave...
The Colorado Governor’s Office of Information Technology (OIT) is on the hunt for its next digital transformation officer (DTO) to replace Brandon Williams, who is departing for a new position in...
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3 Strategies for Procurement Success
Public agencies have been working to improve how they find and purchase technology for decades, and yet one of government’s most sensitive pain points remains, in the words of San Francisco Chief...
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How Can Local Government's Citizen Engagement Efforts Improve?
As local governments find more ways to collect, process and publish data, many are finding themselves faced with a new problem: not knowing exactly what to do with it. The same, apparently, holds true...
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Cook County's Inaugural CISO Will Take Identical Post In Private Sector
Ricardo Lafosse, the inaugural chief information security officer of Cook County, Ill., will reprise his role in the private sector after nearly four-and-a-half years at the nation’s second largest...
View ArticleAsk Joe: What Does it Take to Win in Gov Tech?
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: Amazon Seeks Proposals for Where to Build Its...
Amazon is looking to city governments and regional economic development organizations for proposals on where to build its second North America headquarters. Launching its search with an online...
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Carpooling Service Connects Harvey Victims with Much Needed Transportation
Metropia Inc. is a group of innovators that focus on the creation of traffic congestion management platforms. The launch of their new online pairing service has been released as a helping hand to the...
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Connecticut CIO Mark Raymond on the Governor's Cybersecurity Initiative and...
Perhaps the best way to describe Connecticut’s Bureau of Enterprise Systems and Technology under the leadership of CIO Mark Raymond is measured and deliberate. Raymond has served in the state’s lead...
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State and Local Officials Respond to Federal Self-Driving Car Legislation
State and regional transportation officials largely praised the vote by the U.S. House of Representatives to ease the development of self-driving cars, and the technology associated with them, Sept....
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Illinois CIO Hardik Bhatt to Leave for Amazon
After more than two-and-a-half years serving as CIO for the state of Illinois, Hardik Bhatt is leaving for a role with Internet titan Amazon. Though the CIO could not discuss the finer details of his...
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