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Digital Cities Survey 2018: Key Data Points (Infographic)
Sixty municipalities from across the country ranked in the 2018 Digital Cities Survey, a nationwide review of digital practices at the city level. Click through for some of the most interesting...
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What’s New in Civic Tech: A New Map Visualizes Civic Innovation Networks
A nonprofit organization has built a heat map that visualizes the growing civic innovation networks across the United States. Dubbed Networks and American Renewal, this map is the work of New America,...
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Startup Optibus Raises $40M for Mass Transit Planning SaaS
A little more than a year after closing a $12 million Series A, transportation optimization software company Optibus announced this week that its Series B financing round finished at $40 million,...
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Lime Launches $3M Campaign to Increase Scooter Safety
$3 Million E-scooters have been a divisive form of micro-transit in cities across the country, in part because of the safety issues they pose. To encourage users to follow rules that keep them safer...
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Las Vegas Partners with NTT to Study IoT Impact on Transportation
Wrong-way driving or even a broken window in downtown Las Vegas will receive an extra set of detection and analysis as the city deploys a network of video, audio and other sensors to gather detailed...
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Deloitte Wins 4 State Contracts to Update Medicaid Systems
Four states have contracted Deloitte, one of the world’s biggest accounting and consulting firms, to update and integrate their Medicaid systems with the company’s Medicaid data analytics platform....
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Oregon CIO Terrence Woods Discusses State’s Top Priorities
Terrence Woods grew up in Salem, Ore., the state’s capital, and now after being tapped by the governor earlier this month to move from acting to permanent CIO, Woods will be leading the state's...
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The Future of Remote Work
In a blog post that went viral this past week, Richard Branson wrote, “The way we all work is going to change.” The entrepreneur believes that our 9-5 lifestyles will end in the next decade as a...
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The Dark Web: Is Your Agency at Risk? (Contributed)
The dark Web. It’s that part of the Internet where subversive or illegal activities often take place. With its significant level of secrecy, the dark Web gives hackers and other nefarious actors the...
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Civic Technologist Builds National Toys for Tots Map
As a society, we have reached a point at which it boggles the mind when information is not easily available on the phones we carry everywhere in our pockets. Spoiled by a constant flow of information...
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2018: Highlights from the Year in Data (Infographic)
Here are some top-level insights from the Center for Digital Government's* flagship awards programs from the past year: Digital Counties Survey, Digital States Survey, Digital Cities Survey and...
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California Regulation Sets Course for Emission-Free Buses by 2040
Transit buses in the country’s largest state are on the road to being emission-free by 2040. The California Air Resources Board (CARB) approved a sweeping new regulation to transition buses away from...
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Real-Time Data Helps Philadelphia Improve Green Design
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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Virginia Wants to Pump $250M into Universal Access Broadband
(TNS) — Gov. Ralph Northam announced Virginia’s expanded investment in universal broadband access, something Northam believes gives the state an edge in bringing economic progress to the Commonwealth....
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ND Gov. Calls for Cybersecurity Funding, Centralization in Budget
(TNS) — With his software background, Gov. Doug Burgum's technology proposals may be one of the more interesting areas of his budget plan — especially given what's facing North Dakota's cybersecurity....
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The Public Is Ready for Government Artificial Intelligence (Contributed)
“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity. An optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” —Winston Churchill The public sector has an unprecedented opportunity to serve citizens in...
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Colleges in California and Arizona Will Pilot Autonomous Shuttles
Campuses of higher learning in California and Arizona are the sites of two autonomous shuttle pilots, offering both transportation and academic study into the future possibilities of self-driving...
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Vermont's New CISO Comes with Years of High-Level Experience
Vermont has hired Nicholas Andersen, 12-year cybersecurity veteran who has worked with a number of U.S. military organizations, as the new chief information security officer for the Agency of Digital...
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Four Myths About Open Source in Government (Contributed)
Every year, the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) publishes its list of State CIO Top 10 Priorities, a checklist of the most important issues that will be on the to-do...
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New Global Civic Tech Group Emerges from Omidyar Network
In a major move within the civic tech space, Luminate, a global philanthropic organization, has emerged from Omidyar Network’s long-standing governance and citizen engagement initiative. Officially...
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