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State of the States 2018: Broadband, Cybersecurity Surface as Priorities
With a wave of gubernatorial elections on the horizon later this year, many states’ top elected leaders were nearing the end of their terms as they delivered their most important policy speech of the...
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Dallas Innovation Alliance Accelerates Smart City Projects
Wander into West End Historic District in downtown Dallas — an area rich with the city’s culture and past — and you have strolled into what will likely be the city’s future. This four-block...
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What’s New in Civic Tech: A Range of Exciting Work is Under Way in Alaska
Alaska’s gov tech ecosystem has taken steps forward, driven by projects from several different entities, including the state, the Anchorage municipal government and the Anchorage Code for America...
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Sex, Money Laundering and Blockchain: 11 States Look at FinTech
When Nebraska State legislator Carol Blood started thinking about cryptocurrencies and blockchain, she focused on sex trafficking and money laundering. During two significant events held in Omaha —...
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Louisville Makes Final Round for Smart Cities Readiness Challenge Grant
Improving connectivity and generating data-driven internal management decisions may land Louisville, Ky., with training from experts and services worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. The city is...
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6 Celebrities, Famous People Investing in GovTech 100 Companies
Being rich and famous does not mean a person knows what a good business looks like. But that won’t stop celebrities from going the venture capital route when investing their riches. And now, as...
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Columbus Issues RFP for the Operating System to Run its Smart City Systems
The brains behind any great device or process generally rest on a great operating system. Officials involved in Columbus, Ohio’s nationally-watched smart city initiative are moving forward with...
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Information Sharing, Commitment Transform Albuquerque’s Homeless Outlook
Using collective commitment, statistical data, a screening tool and a database created by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the Albuquerque Heading Home project is having an...
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Winter Olympics Online: Tips for Work Networks and Home Safety
The 2018 Winter Olympic Games in PyeongChang, South Korea, are set to begin on Thursday, Feb. 8 and run through Sunday, Feb. 25. So what do you need to know to stay secure as you watch on the go?...
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L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti on Award-Winning Data-Driven Governance
When Bloomberg Philanthropies’ What Works Cities program handed out its first-ever certifications in January, Los Angeles was the only city in the country to receive gold, with eight others just...
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Vermont City, Real Estate Startup Try Out Blockchain for Recording Property...
Among the many possible uses of blockchain, techno-enthusiasts have long thought of property record tracking as a prime example of how government could use the technology. Now, a company is working...
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Maury Blackman Takes Leadership of International Data-Gathering Startup
Maury Blackman, the former chief executive officer of Accela turned venture capitalist, will lead an international data company as it begins to drive for more business in the U.S. Blackman is the new...
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IT Chief Phil Wittmer Resigns as New Kansas Governor Takes Reins
The state of Kansas’s top technology official has stepped down just days after the arrival of a new governor — a shift that is not uncommon in public-sector IT. Phil Wittmer, the state’s Chief IT...
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Data Visualization Tool Helps Missouri County Fight the Flu
Finding success in using data visualization to inform residents and media about one of the world’s most persistent and sometimes deadly ailments, officials at one Missouri consolidated city-county...
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Dallas Gives Green Light to New Transportation Management System
Improvements to the traffic signal infrastructure in Dallas could pave the way toward faster responses to crashes, better timing of signals and green light priority for bus lanes. The city recently...
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Seattle Pushes Forward as Data Privacy Leader
As the collection of data by city governments becomes increasingly comprehensive and complex, municipalities have begun to create privacy policies aimed at keeping citizen info safe. Among those...
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Growth of Electric Cars Faces Charging Station Dilemma
The adoption of electric cars in California continues to surge, driven by declining costs for both the vehicles and the charging infrastructure, and underscoring the most seismic shift in how cars are...
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With New CIO at Helm, Baltimore Crafts First Strategic IT Plan
The city of Baltimore, which searched nationwide before plucking its new top tech executive from the private sector late last year, hopes to realize a first later this year under his direction —...
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Where Tradition Fails, Technology Succeeds in Reaching Angelenos Left Behind
LOS ANGELES — Technology has done a lot to bridge the gap between local governments and citizens, but for the hearing- and sight-impaired, it has not gone far enough in many cases. Imagine the task of...
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What’s New in Civic Tech: Bloomberg Cities Highlights 'Data-Driven Women to...
Beth Blauer and Simone Brody, who are the executive director and founder of GovEx at Johns Hopkins University and the executive director of Bloomberg’s What Works Cities initiative respectively,...
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