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Nobody Loves Government Procurement, but How Can It Be Fixed?
ATLANTA — Four gov tech professionals spoke during the MetroLab Annual Summit at Georgia Tech Dec. 13. Some were from the private sector and some were public servants, but they all had their own...
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Oklahoma’s IT Unification Nets Hundreds of Millions in Savings
Roughly five years after Oklahoma began to unify information technology (IT), that process is largely finished and has saved the state hundreds of millions of dollars, officials told Government...
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White House IT Modernization Report Largely Sidesteps Oracle's Complaints
Back in October, Oracle made a lot of people angry with its comments on a draft White House report in which it damned federal efforts to beef up in-house development expertise, adopt open-source code...
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What's New in Civic Tech: Open Data Saves Connecticut $500,000
The availability of open data has helped Connecticut save as much as $500,000 the state would have potentially had to pay to create digital building footprints that feature addresses and other...
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Net Neutrality Repeal: Government IT Officials Respond with Trepidation
On Dec. 14, two years after the Federal Communications Commission voted for net neutrality, the commission took it all back. A lot of state and local government IT leaders are not happy about it. “I’m...
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Software for the Social Good: The Struggle to Make Informed Decisions
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Military Veteran Takes Top Florida Information Security Job
Florida has turned to a military veteran to serve as its new chief information security officer. Thomas Vaughn, who has served in the U.S. Army and Coast Guard, is the Florida Agency for State...
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Boston's CIO Will Step Down in January, His Next Move Unclear
Boston Chief Information Officer Jascha Franklin-Hodge, who ascended to the city’s top technology post in mid-2014 with the goal of making better use of technology as a positive force in residents’...
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Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed: Tech Is Vital in Leading Cities
ATLANTA — On the second day of the MetroLab Annual Summit, Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed discussed the power of our specific moment, saying city government leaders now have growing influence on quality of...
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Software for the Social Good: Locating Food Deserts
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Electric Buses Are Gradually Replacing Older Fossil Fuel Models
Battery-powered electric buses are now whirring up and down Central Avenue in Albuquerque, N.M., ushering in what may be the next wave in low-emission transit vehicles. "Central Avenue makes the...
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Four Blockchain Bills Introduced in New York State Assembly
Horrified by reports that the Russians might have hacked voting machines and the fact that one county lost a high number of voter records in 2016, New York Assemblyman Clyde Vanel introduced four...
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2017 Review: The Year Hurricanes Devastated Land, Data and Trust
2017 was the year that hurricanes struck American homes and critical infrastructure, while relentless cyberattacks struck our data and undermined public trust in our financial, political and media...
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Software for the Social Good: One County's Model Warehouse
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Nearly Half of Electric Customers Have Smart Meters, but Adoption Rates Vary...
Nearly half of all U.S. electric customers have smart meters, according to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration — but the percentage of customers who have them varies wildly from state...
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Public Opinion Often Sets Privacy Standards for Smart City Tech
ATLANTA — As cities have begun to collect and release unprecedented amounts of data, questions about citizen privacy have become increasingly relevant. Local governments, for their part, often lack...
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Software for the Social Good: Where Are the Analysts?
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After Considering Its Own Network, Colorado Joins FirstNet
After years of planning, negotiating and considering their options carefully, state of Colorado officials have announced the state will join FirstNet, the dedicated, nationwide first responder...
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USC, Los Angeles IoT Consortium Takes Shape
The University of Southern California will serve as a test bed for smart city initiatives that could see wider deployment across Los Angeles and other cities. The USC Marshall School of Business and...
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Software for the Social Good: Technology as a Unifying Force
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