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Columbus, Ohio, to Build Multimodal Trip-Planning and Payment System
Public transit in Columbus, Ohio, will take a significant step toward digital integration with a system that merges trip-planning and payment all in one easy-to-use app. The city’s Smart Columbus...
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What’s New in Civic Tech: National Science Foundation Funds Los Angeles Data...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded nearly $1 million in funding to a project that will create a partnership between California State University, Los Angeles; the city of Los Angeles’...
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Statecraft Pivots, Builds Communications Tool for Developers and Local...
Statecraft, a startup that was originally planning to work with local governments to wrangle housing data, has pivoted. The company, now called Openland, is focused on communications. The idea is to...
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State Lawmakers Praise Collaboration, Highlight Future Technologies in North...
On day two of the 18th North Carolina Digital Government Summit, three lawmakers from opposite sides of the political spectrum gathered for a conversation with the state’s technology leader on how...
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Sacramento County Sees Benefits from Online Family Homeless Shelter...
California is in the midst of a housing crisis that has many county and city governments facing an unprecedented increase in homelessness. Sacramento County is no exception. As a result, the county...
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National League of Cities Releases Small Cell Guide for Local Government
As small cell wireless equipment — those little cell service-spreading doohickeys attached to structures such as streetlights and utility poles — proliferates across the U.S., the National League of...
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For EVs to Really Get Traction, Home Charging Needs to Be an Option
The opportunity for easy overnight recharging may be one of the surest routes toward a wider adoption of electric vehicles in the United States. “Home location charging is the most frequently used...
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California Blockchain Bills Would Enable New Understanding, Private-Sector...
Blockchain, the electronic ledger technology being eyed by several states, could see some private-sector availability next year in California along with some state-level scrutiny, as two bills...
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New Guide on State Data Breach Laws
What are the current data breach laws across U.S. states and territories? Where can the references be seen? How are the specific details different? When are organizations required to notify the...
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San Francisco's CIO Gives Advice for New Startup in Residence Participants
The 2018 Startup in Residence program features more than 30 government agencies, at least 50 RFPs and a set of new features, such as a specialized track for public organizations and startup companies...
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New Jersey Pulls from Private Sector to Fill Two Key Roles
Carrie Parikh, the former senior counsel for global privacy and data security for the Wyndham Hotel Group, now serves as both chief data and privacy officer and chief operating officer within the New...
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Atlanta Meets Self-Imposed Transparency Portal Deadline
Working to deliver on one of five goals set earlier this year with the debut of the new Mayor’s Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, Atlanta officials gathered to mark the debut of a portal...
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Boosting State Website Security
The Domain Name System (DNS) provides a critical service for the Internet. The DNS acts as an online directory, translating easy-to-remember domain names (e.g., govtech.com) into an IP address (e.g.,...
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Privacy in the Balance
Seattle has a homeless problem and it’s getting worse. Since 2007, the city’s homeless population has risen 47 percent, according to the Seattle Times. Today, the city has more than 10,000 residents...
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Report: Most State Websites Need Work
A detailed review of 400 state government websites found that nearly all of them are deficient in some foundational functionalities, including load speeds, mobile readiness, security and...
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State and Local Officials Describe the Long Journey to Data Sharing
The benefits of open data and data sharing are many, but the road to public and interagency data sharing can be long and winding. State, county and local officials provided that mixed message at the...
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One of the Largest Gov Tech Mergers Ever Now Has a Name: CentralSquare
Following the giant merger that saw the public-sector-serving software companies Superion, TriTech Software Systems and Aptean come together and become one entity, that entity has now chosen its new...
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Are Drivers Ditching Their Cars for Uber? Not So Fast, Say Experts
The emergence of ride-hailing services may be placing a small dent in car-ownership in some parts of the country, but don’t count on Americans to shed their personal cars in any significant way,...
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Startup ZenCity Raises $6M from Investors, Including Microsoft's Venture Arm
ZenCity, a startup that aims to give local government better insight into citizen sentiment and measure the outcomes of policy decisions, has raised $6 million from investors, including M12,...
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What Is the Price of Privacy?
We live our lives online. According to Pew Research, a growing percentage of Americans — 26 percent of American adults as of January 2018 — are online “almost constantly.” Those numbers jump to close...
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