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Evaluating Technology and Security Leaders
Great organizations have great leaders. Leaders who surround themselves with top talent. Their teams work well together, using the best technology and efficient processes. Leaders who inspire others,...
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Portal Solves Cities’ Park Accessibility Mystery
Park planners and other public officials in thousands of cities and towns across the United States have a new tool to turn to for information related to parks access in the populations they serve. The...
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Ohio CIOs Share Wisdom on IT Leadership
COLUMBUS, OHIO — On Dec. 28, 2010, Stu Davis found out he was being tapped to be Ohio’s next CIO under then-incoming Gov. John Kasich. When the call came, Davis was surprised; he hadn’t been seeking...
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Municode Acquires Local Government Agenda and Meeting Software Company
Municode, a long-standing developer of websites and other digital services for local government codes, has bought another company so it can start selling agenda management software to customers. After...
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Map: States with CIO Changes in 2017 and 2018
In the coming year, there will be a lot of change in state IT leadership. The 2018 midterm elections, which will bring in replacements for at least 17 governors, will ensure that. But then, there has...
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Are We Looking at Our Last Chance to Get IoT Security Right?
Time is running out on setting security standards for the Internet of Things. The President’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC) has examined the cybersecurity...
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Government CIOs Say It's All About Relationships
COLUMBUS, OHIO — As the nature of the CIO position within government evolves, a new skill is becoming increasingly vital: building relationships, both in the business world and internally within...
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Biobot Analytics, a Startup Using Sewage to Fight the Opioid Crisis, Raises...
Biobot Analytics, a startup spun out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that is collecting data from sewage to monitor opioid use, has raised its first round of seed funding. The company...
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Longtime Tech Leader Takes Root in Marin County IT
Liza Lowery Massey, a veteran of state and local government IT, has been named Marin County’s new chief of the Department of Information Services and Technology (IST). Massey begins her new position...
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Miguel Gamiño Joins Mastercard to Lead City Partnerships
For seven years, Miguel Gamiño worked in technology leadership for some of the largest cities in the U.S. — first El Paso, Texas, then San Francisco, then New York. Now, he’s going to be in charge of...
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Streetcars Play an Expanding Role in Downtown Revivals
New apartments, shops and the headquarters for First Orion, a phone management software company, will all be sprouting up in North Little Rock, Ark. This city of over 62,300 just across the Arkansas...
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Startup Accelerator Features Transportation and Urban Data Prediction...
The fourth cohort of the New York City-based URBAN-X startup accelerator includes two gov tech companies, as well as a third startup that serves citizens using city data. The two gov tech startups are...
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Dave Weinstein, Former New Jersey CTO, Heads to Private Cybersecurity Firm
In yet another C-suite public-private transition, former state of New Jersey CTO Dave Weinstein has landed with a New York-based cybersecurity firm. The company, Claroty, announced that the former...
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Laying the Foundation for Data-Driven Policy
Tennessee has its eye on the long-term benefits data analytics can bring to the state. At the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) midyear conference last month, Deputy...
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Partnerships, Collaboration a Consistent Theme in Illinois
CHICAGO — State, county and local governments are working to modernize their information technology systems, but officials in Illinois say they must also update how they communicate with one another....
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What’s New in Civic Tech: Upstate New York Summit Focuses on Region’s Local...
The Upstate Data Summit is bringing together city leaders from that region of New York for an event in which they will share data and tech success stories. The event is scheduled for June 6 in...
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Look Carefully, Unconventionally for Tomorrow's IT Workforce
No single agency has solved the problem of how to replace retiring baby boomers in the government workforce, but two information technology professionals insisted to an audience of their peers that...
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Rhode Island to Explore Autonomous Shuttle Pilot
The self-driving car wave could be headed to Rhode Island. The state's Department of Transportation (RIDOT) has released a request for proposals in its bid for a public-private partnership to test...
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How Honolulu Cut $1 Million from the IT Budget and Continues to Innovate
Honolulu CIO Mark Wong’s passion for these five words have led to an annual IT budget cost savings of $1 million each fiscal year for the past four years — and without the expense of restricting his...
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Data Analytics Helps Boston Schools Better Serve Students
In this installment of the Innovation of the Month series (see last month’s story), we explore how Boston Public Schools have partnered with the Boston Area Research Initiative (BARI) to create an...
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