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Electric Utilities Plot Bullish Course for EV Charging Infrastructure
Electric providers in Florida, Ohio and New Jersey recently announced plans to expand electric vehicle charging infrastructure through various incentive programs that could add thousands of new public...
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What’s New in Civic Tech: Google’s Waze Expands Carpooling App to All 50...
Google’s Waze Carpool app has now expanded 50 states, focusing as it grows on facilitating ride-sharing among Amazon employees. This news, first reported by TechCrunch, came earlier this week to...
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Rural Wi-Fi Project Improves Wildfire Monitoring in Southern California
MetroLab Network has partnered with Government Technology to bring its readers a segment called the MetroLab Innovation of the Month series, which highlights impactful tech, data, and innovation...
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The Unseen Consequences of Hiding Social Comments
It’s a fairly common practice for government agencies to “hide” social media comments for violating their social media policy, rather than delete them. There is a sense that hiding comments isn’t as...
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To Weed Out Irrelevant Government Bids, Tech Company Turns to AI
Periscope Holdings, which makes technology for the government bidding process, is turning to artificial intelligence to help match up vendors with public buyers. For now, that means the company has...
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FlexLA is Ready to Shuttle You Around Downtown Los Angeles
Getting around downtown Los Angeles in the evenings just got easier. The launch of a new on-demand, micro-transit service is stepping in during times when more conventional transit is scaled back....
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Former Delaware Tech Team Manager Is the State's New Security Officer
Delaware’s choice for its new security officer is returning to the state, having gathered a wealth of cybersecurity experience in the private sector. Solomon Adote, the former global information...
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Security Audit Weaknesses Offer a Silver Lining
Very disappointing, some might even say demoralizing, security findings were made public this week in a report from a U.S. Government Accountability Office cybersecurity study regarding the Defense...
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New Trends Take Off in the Cybermarket
IRAN, desperate to boost revenue following the return of sanctions imposed by the United States, has encouraged its hackers to pursue ransomware attacks on individuals and organizations, according to...
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Oracle Launches Community Development Solution, Competing with Tyler and...
Oracle, a tech titan and one of the largest providers of back-end software to state and local governments in the U.S., is jumping into the land management, licensing and permitting arena. The company...
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Tired of Kids Getting Fined, Startup Crowdfunds an App to Permit the...
Lisa Abeyta spotted a problem in June, when she saw a video of a woman calling the police on an 8-year-old girl selling water bottles in San Francisco. The girl’s crime? She didn’t have a permit. No...
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For Next-Generation City Infrastructure, Consider Partnerships
NEWARK, N.J. — Sure, modern cities still have to support basic infrastructures like streets and water lines. But some leading cities in the country are looking to grow new types of infrastructure in...
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Gunshot Detection Company ShotSpotter Acquires Predictive Policing Software
ShotSpotter, a gunfire detection system for police departments, signaled a move toward proactive enforcement this week by acquiring HunchLab and its crime-prediction software, according to a news...
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Report: As Tech Changes Law Enforcement, Its Workforce Must Adapt
Technology will continue to change the work of law enforcement and staying ahead will mean not just adopting the latest tools but hiring and retaining the best employees, forging unique partnerships...
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A Place for Cyber in Utah
Michigan. Georgia. Colorado. New Jersey. And now Utah. The list of states with a broad coalition of cybersecurity stakeholders united in one physical space has grown steadily over the past few years....
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MetroLab Launches Civic Innovation Challenge with National Science Foundation
NEWARK, N.J. — The MetroLab Network is launching new initiatives to strengthen and grow the bonds between universities and cities to use innovation and data to solve complex issues related to...
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Louisville, Ky., Combines Digital Inclusion, Human-Centered Design Into One...
Louisville, Ky., is hosting a seemingly new type of event that it’s calling a Digital Inclusion Design Jam, which essentially combines municipal digital equity efforts with expertise from local...
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NYC Names Former U.S. CTO Kelly Jin its New Chief Analytics Officer
New York City has named Kelly Jin its new chief analytics officer and director of the mayor’s office of data and analytics, according to local media. Jin started work Monday, filling a position that...
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Autonomous Shuttles Have the Opportunity to Improve the Bus Experience
NEWARK, N.J. — The personal autonomous car may be years away, but communities are already preparing for and testing the concept of small, electric, self-driving shuttles to fill gaps in public...
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NEOGOV Acquires HR Software Veteran High Line Corp.
NEOGOV, a technology company focused on human resources software for the public sector, has acquired a veteran HR software company. Based in California, NEOGOV is taking over Ontario, Canada-based...
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