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Stu Davis, Former Ohio CIO, Announces Private-Sector Job
Following 21 years of state government work, former Ohio CIO Stu Davis has found his next gig as managing director of the public sector division at Sense Corp., a Missouri-based data analytics firm...
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NYC Libraries Take the Lead for Digital Privacy Week
New York City is holding its first library privacy week this month, which includes a series of more than 30 free public workshops aimed at teaching residents better data privacy practices. The library...
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Missouri Appoints Permanent CIO, Longtime Acting CIO Kliethermes Steps into...
Missouri’s longtime acting CIO will step aside to take a lower role in the state IT department as a new tech leader arrives from the private sector, officials in the Office of Administration (OA) said...
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Homeless Donations Are Missing Something: Tampons
Cities, nonprofits and people who donate to homeless shelters tend to think of necessities as food, clothing and soap. Often left off the list are tampons and pads for women who are menstruating. In...
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Setting the Cyber Scene (Infographic)
As the landscape of cyberthreats grows, we look at some of the facts and figures behind what's affecting government. Click through for a glance at cybersecurity by the numbers. To see the full...
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What’s New in Civic Tech: New Directory Maps the Top Civic Innovation Labs
As gov tech principles spread and cities began sharing insights into using innovation to overcome long-standing municipal problems, the concept of the innovation lab has become more common. Now, a new...
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ClearGov Jumps Into Government Budgeting Software, Bringing AI with It
Massachusetts-based startup ClearGov has announced a new budgeting tool for small governments and school districts to better forecast revenue and expenses, communicate between departments and document...
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ERP Implementations in the Public Sector: Special Challenges (Contributed)
Governmental entities, no less than companies, encounter numerous risks in selecting, planning for and implementing an enterprise resource planning (ERP) software system such as Oracle, SAP, Microsoft...
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ASUS ZenBook Pro with 4K Ultra HD Touchscreen
Pro Laptop ASUS announced the ZenBook Pro 15, a 15.6-inch laptop with a 4K ultra high-definition (UHD) touchscreen, an Intel Core i9 hexa-core processor and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti graphics. The...
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The Big Push for a Federal Privacy Law: What Does it Mean for State...
In June of this year, the California Legislature passed a sweeping new privacy law, created new data privacy rights for consumers and imposed significant new obligations on companies. The law prompted...
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On Health Care, Cloud, Identity and Cyber, North Carolina Collaborates
Working holistically is a key to his state’s participation in a new four-state National Governors Association (NGA) cybersecurity partnership, North Carolina CIO Eric Boyette said recently. But an...
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Oracle Hires Napa Assistant City Manager to Help Develop New Land Use Platform
Peter Pirnejad, a longtime local government official who led technology, innovation and community development efforts in several cities, is joining Oracle to work on a renewed push into public-sector...
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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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