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Sidewalk Labs' New Tool Uses Smartphone Data to Model Changes in...
Often, if a city official wants to get a better idea of how people get around in and outside the city, they rely on manual surveys of residents. Then they run it through a model — often with the help...
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What Happened When Government Technology Leaders Met?
I participated in another excellent National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) Midyear Conference in Baltimore this week. The agenda was packed with excellent sessions. Here’s...
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Google, South Dakota County Resolve Email "Blacklisting" Issue
After months of trying, Brown County, S.D., has recovered from an issue that caused emails sent from Google accounts to be delayed or to not arrive at all, its top technology official said recently....
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Florida’s Data-Driven Future
A lot of public-sector work is “unromantic,” as Florida CIO Eric Larson puts it. But so often it’s that behind-the-scenes effort that creates real change in the way government works both internally...
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Could Autonomous Vehicles Add to Congestion? Maybe, Say Planners
The car-riding public may not be the only ones with self-driving car jitters these days. City planners — those people who set public policy around how our cities develop — are also raising questions...
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ZenCity, an AI Civic Engagement Startup, Earns $1M from Microsoft and Other...
ZenCity, a platform that aggregates and analyzes citizen sentiment and feedback for local government, has won a $1 million prize from Microsoft’s venture capital arm and other investors for artificial...
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If Facial Recognition Comes to Body Cameras, How Will Government Respond?
Axon, the nation’s largest distributor of police body worn cameras, is interested in adding facial recognition capabilities to its body camera technology, its CEO stated at the company's first...
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Balancing Emerging and Legacy Tech in New Mexico
When New Mexico CIO Darryl Ackley looks at what the next big thing in gov tech might be, he first points to some of the bigger buzzwords, like blockchain and its potential uses for constituent...
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Meet the Los Angeles Power Team of Tech Leaders
Los Angeles, the nation's second largest city, has become an influential testbed for government technology, with a track record of ongoing projects related to digital equity, data-driven governance...
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Awareness, Communication Integral to Minnesota Cybersecurity Strategic Plan
The state of Minnesota’s new five-year cybersecurity strategic plan is aimed at improving its ability to combat and neutralize bad actors, and many of its 18 overarching strategies center on including...
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How Kentucky’s Large Contract Workforce Complicates IT Staffing
The commonwealth of Kentucky has some of the country's worst-funded pensions. As Chief Information Officer Charles Grindle explained at last week's National Association of State Chief Information...
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Scaling Smart City Tech Could Help Clear Regional Obstacles
Traffic, parking and even garbage collecting in San Mateo County, Calif., could get more efficient and “smarter” as the county begins an earnest exploration into smart city projects that can be...
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Will GDPR Rules Impact States and Localities?
When the May 25 enforcement deadline for Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) rolls around, U.S. companies, organizations and institutions that target their products and services to...
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FirstNet Tested During Boston Marathon
Leaders at FirstNet, the nation’s emerging high-speed first responder communications network, are declaring a win in their biggest public demonstration to date. The weather wasn’t kind to the 122nd...
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What’s New in Civic Tech: Net Neutrality Item Heads to Congress Next Week
While Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai officially began the rollback of net neutrality protections in December, the efforts to prevent it have continued in Congress, and next...
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Departing Oregon CIO Lands in Secretary of State's Office
C-suite officials who leave the public sector don’t typically stay very close, but Oregon’s technology leader, who announced his impending departure last month, has accepted a high-level post...
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L.A. Metro Will Test the Feasibility of Micro Transit
L.A. Metro, the country's third-largest public transit agency by ridership, is turning to the private sector to find out how it should best design its on-demand, micro-transit project. The agency is...
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San Francisco Will be Ready for the Next Transportation Startup Craze
(TNS) — The next time a startup with a nifty idea tries to unleash a transportation innovation on city streets, San Francisco hopes to be ready with a framework that includes a permitting system and...
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One CIO’s Primer on the Evolving Ransomware Threat
State chief information officers had a lot to say about recent government-focused ransomware attacks when they gathered at the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) Midyear...
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Nonprofit Sues Georgia, Seeking to Prevent Voting on All-Electric Systems in...
Georgia’s Secretary of State office is facing a lawsuit over its use of an all-electronic voting system with no paper ballot verification backups, one of five states that currently use such a system....
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