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LA Tech Transformation Starts with Fiber
Los Angeles has its sights set on improving city technology in 2014, including a major fiber connectivity project. According to Steve Reneker, general manager of the Los Angeles Information Technology...
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HealthCare.gov Calls Out for Google, Private-Sector Help
As time shrinks to stabilize the new federal insurance exchange website, Healthcare.gov, officials announced Thursday that they have enlisted aid from IT heavyweights Oracle, Red Hat and Google. The...
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FAA Relaxes Rules for Electronic Devices on Commercial Flights
Travelers using Delta Airlines will soon be able to use their tablets, e-readers and smartphones during takeoff and landing. Delta was the first airline to jump on the opportunity to reform personal...
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Are Internet-Enabled Medical Devices Safe from Hackers?
Former Vice President Dick Cheney recently reported that he had his heart defibrillator's wireless functionality disabled for fear of a hacker killing him via computer -- an unlikely but possible...
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Google Nudges Cities for More Data
Since its inception, Google has worked to perfect and personalize its search engine results, and last Friday, the company may have revealed its next big push for improvement: open government data....
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Arkansas Purchases Secondary Data Center for Backup, Recovery
Most government officials would say it’s critical to always have a plan B. For the Arkansas Department of Information Systems, plan B includes a new state data center. On Oct. 30, the Information...
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12th Annual re:public Event Unites State and Local Leaders (Slideshow)
An eclectic group of public officials gathered Monday in La Quinta, Calif., for re:public XII, the Center for Digital Government’s annual leadership retreat. Attendees included around 100 CIOs,...
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State-Run Health Exchanges Overcoming Their Glitches
HealthCare.gov, the federal health insurance exchange, is a disaster. One month out from launch, the mother ship is still grounded and looks like it will be for some time yet. The state-level stories,...
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Chicago Ends Grace Period for Speed Cameras
Four new speed cameras in Chicago caught more than 233,000 speeders in 45 days, which would have brought in $13.8 million in revenue for the city. But that 45-day period was a warning and testing...
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Photo of the Week: India's Mission to Mars
The island of Sriharkiota, off the east coast of India, was the site of the launch of the country's first mission to Mars on Tuesday, Nov. 5. Approximately 45 minutes later, the 3,000-pound...
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DHS Testing Facial Recognition Accuracy
Facial recognition has come a long way in the last few years, with personal handheld digital cameras now offering basic biometric applications. But on a grander scale, the U.S. Department of Homeland...
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TechAmerica Lobbyists Jump Ship for Rival Outfit
In what may be the technology lobbying equivalent of the New York Yankees acquiring Babe Ruth from the Boston Red Sox, the Information Technology Industry Council (ITI) has poached four of the top...
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2013 Digital Cities Winners Announced
Showcasing this year’s top practices in public-sector information and communication technology, the 2013 Digital Cities Survey announced its 2013 winners with Boston; Irving, Texas; Avondale, Ariz.;...
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How Will You Handle the Death of Windows XP?
In about five months, Microsoft will discontinue support for the second most popular operating system of all time: Windows XP, which is second only to Windows 7. After April 8, any organization that...
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3 Stories That Will Inspire You to do Something Big (Column)
Chad Pregracke was 17 years old when he decided to clean up the Mississippi River one piece of garbage at a time. He’d spent his summers on the Mississippi as a commercial diver, fighting his way...
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California Lawmakers Grill Officials Over Botched Unemployment System Upgrade
As officials in charge of a computer problem that delayed jobless benefits for nearly 150,000 Californians appeared for the first time before an Assembly committee Wednesday, front-line employees...
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San Francisco Entrepreneurship in Residence Program Reports Application Surge
San Francisco announced in September an Entrepreneurship in Residence (EIR) program that would harness the talent and can-do culture of startup companies, and apply them to common government “pain...
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CMS CIO Tony Trenkle to Step Down Amid Healthcare.gov Woes
Tony Trenkle, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services chief information officer, is stepping down from his post to join the private sector. His departure comes on the heels of the troubled...
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Cybersecurity Training for Cook County, Illinois, Employees
As cybersecurity threats have increased in recent years, local and state governments are starting to take proactive steps to combat cybercrime. In Illinois, the Cook County Board of Commissioners...
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'TechJam' Hackathon-Style Event Seeks Better Solutions for Veteran Health...
The first ever MetLife “TechJam,” held in North Carolina’s Research Triangle Park in early November, brought together more than 75 technologists to apply their talents toward the improvement of...
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