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Los Angeles Area to Host Government-Funded Electric Semi Demo
The future of electric vehicles is reaching beyond the handful of personal car brands, and is landing a place in the trucking and transport industries as regions explore next-generation transportation...
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What’s New in Civic Tech: Can Alaska Help Solve Climate Change?
Bloomberg Philanthropies has chosen Anchorage, Alaska, as a 2018 Public Art Challenge, and the city will now get up to $1 million for a project aimed at finding solutions to climate change. That...
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How Washington IT Is Shifting to Service Brokerage
The state of Washington its is in the midst of a transformation, according to acting CIO Vikki Smith. Though she has only led Washington Technology Solutions (WaTech) since June 2018, Smith said the...
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Kansas Embraces the Hybrid Model in Multifaceted Cloud Pact
Kansas, which moved off mainframe nearly two years ago, has activated a more recent vendor pact around hybrid cloud that, like an ongoing IT consolidation, aims at increasing flexibility, reliability...
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Where Data Privacy Is Concerned, There's a Lot to Consider
OLYMPIA, WASH. — As technology continues to develop, so do the privacy and security issues around it. Advances in biometrics, data analysis and machine learning offer seemingly limitless applications...
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St. Paul, Minn., Modernizes Stormwater Infrastructure
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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All the States with New Governors — and Maybe, New CIOs
When Americans went to the polls on Tuesday, they elected 20 new governors. The uncertain results of the Florida and Georgia races notwithstanding, new governors — especially when they come from a...
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West Virginia Not Planning to Expand Use of Blockchain Voting
This week West Virginia became the first state in the nation to use Internet voting with blockchain technology in a federal general election, piloting the program for military and other voters living...
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Vermont CIO Details Plans for Security Operations Center
State cybersecurity operations are maturing. Chief information officers at the state level report that compared with a few years ago, it is getting easier to fund needed investments around...
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Lime and Spin to Share Detailed Use Data with LADOT
Transportation officials in Los Angeles will soon have access to lots of additional real-time usage data generated by hundreds of e-scooters and bikes racing up and down city streets. An agreement...
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Another Look at Virtual Integrity
"It happens every day. Debra, a junior at a prestigious Ivy League university, needs better grades. She downloads and submits someone else’s research. Frank, a respected business man, plugs a pen...
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Consulting Firm GCOM Acquires Three Sigma Software
GCOM Software, an Albany, N.Y.-based government and technology consulting firm, has acquired Three Sigma Software, a software provider for the federal Women, Infants, and Children nutrition program,...
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Mobility Hub Project Moving Forward in Columbus, Ohio
Public transit agencies continue to look for opportunities to cross-pollinate with other forms of mobility in an era of easy app-enabled transportation. So, it's no surprise transit and smart city...
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Maine CDO on Data Governance in a Decentralized State
As Government Technology has tracked the growth of the chief data officer position over the past few years, one of the main roles that has emerged for this key IT leader is determining policy around...
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Granicus Acquires Record Management Firm SouthTech
Backed with private equity money, Granicus has acquired the veteran government software firm SouthTech Systems. Based in California, SouthTech has been in business since 1994. The company has several...
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Why Chicago Added a Design Office to City Hall
Chicago has added a new design office and director to its municipal government, making it the most recent in a wave of cities embracing design philosophies to create services and platforms that better...
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For Digital Identity Management, Startup Offers Blockchain
After struggling to put blockchain to use in Illinois, two former state employees are privately developing a way to use the technology for digital identity management on a national scale, and they’ve...
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Columbus, Ohio, Shares Its Smart City Secrets in New Playbook
Collaboration and transparency are often rallying cries of smart city advocates, with city officials and others usually happy to discuss the projects. Columbus, Ohio, is taking this mantra a step...
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Why Can't Ed Tech Boost Student Test Scores?
Each year school districts spend considerable money, time and effort on purchasing and implementing technology in their schools. Often this is done with promises and hope that the technology will not...
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6 U.S. Cities Join Mastercard's Global Problem-Solving Network
Collaborating with Harvard University, Mastercard has announced the launch of a global network of cities called City Possible to help them identify common problems, come up with possible solutions,...
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