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What’s New in Civic Tech: Three Perks of Data Work Check-Ups
Few organizations in the country have more expertise on municipal data work than What Works Cities, a nonprofit group aimed at helping local governments improve the lives of residents through data and...
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The Top 19 Security Predictions for 2019
What will happen in the future? We constantly seek answers to that question in areas ranging from weather forecasts to stock market corrections to sports scores to election results. In our individual...
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Report: CAFR Is Best Format for Government Financial Data
As an increasing number of state and local governments across the country make more of their financial data available to the public online, a new report makes a case for the best way to do that. The...
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Smart Columbus Encourages Uber Drivers to Go Electric
Ubers in Columbus, Ohio, may be getting a whole lot quieter, and more sustainable. Smart Columbus, the multimillion-dollar effort to reimagine wide swaths of the transportation sector in the city, is...
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Boilerplate Contract Language Gets Indiana to the Cloud
Government IT organizations increasingly look to the cloud as they modernize their operations, often favoring the agility, scalability and overall ease of cloud-based solutions as compared to...
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Pittsburgh Taps South Bend, Ind., CIO to Lead Innovation Team
South Bend, Ind., CIO Santiago Garces is resigning his position to take a new job as the director of Pittsburgh’s Department of Innovation and Performance, according to a press release. Garces’...
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New Mexico Gov.-Elect Lujan Grisham Picks New Tech Secretary
Incoming New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has named Vincent Martinez, currently with the state as managing director of cloud and communications, as her pick to serve as secretary of the...
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What’s New in Civic Tech: Connecticut’s First State Data Plan
Connecticut has finalized its first-ever state data plan, making the full text available through the state’s open data portal. This satisfies a new legislative requirement in Connecticut that was...
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Michigan CIO to Depart as New Governor Takes the Reins
Michigan CIO David DeVries announced this week he will step down from his position Jan. 1. The state’s governor-elect Gretchen Whitmer has yet to name a replacement. DeVries, 60, has been the state’s...
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Ohio Eyes New Connected Vehicle Test, One of Several in U.S.
A connected vehicle project in Ohio will join other similar explorations of sensor and related technologies that allow vehicles to interact with each other and infrastructure, in the aim of growing...
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Citymart’s BidSpark Aims to Bring New Vendors to Government
As big as the government technology market is — $400 billion a year, give or take — a bid procurement platform from New York-based Citymart aims to bring new businesses to the table. BidSpark, the...
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Outgoing Illinois Governor to Elevate CTO to Interim CIO
Jack King has been named the new Illinois interim CIO and acting secretary of the Department of Innovation and Technology (DoIT), outgoing Gov. Bruce Rauner announced Friday, Dec. 21. The appointment...
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Technology Trends for the New Year That Are NOT About Security
As we inch closer to 2020, inquiring minds want to know … what’s next? What new tech devices and features can we expect to cause "disruption" as we move into 2019? Do you remember that positive...
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Fulton County, Ga., Appoints Nicole Keaton Hart as CIO
Fulton County, Ga., the most populous county in the state, has named Nicole Keaton Hart its next CIO, according to the county website. Hart is a natural pick, having previously served in the same...
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New Jersey’s CTO on Modernization and Funding Cyber
Christopher Rein took the lead as New Jersey’s chief technology officer last June, overseeing the state’s Office of Information Technology. A longtime public- and private-sector tech official, Rein...
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Drones. AI. Bodycams. Is Technology Making Us Safer?
In 2017, the Chicago Police Department created six high-tech police hubs located throughout the city’s more crime-ridden neighborhoods. Dubbed “Strategic Decision Support Centers,” the hubs are a...
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Tricia Foster Replaces DeVries as Michigan Tech Director
Tricia L. Foster is the new director of the Michigan Department of Technology, Management and Budget, joining a slate of new senior advisers in Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s administration. Whitmer’s Dec....
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What’s New in Civic Tech: What Works Cities Launches Sprints
What Works Cities, which was launched by Bloomberg Philanthropies in 2015 to help local governments benefit from data-driven decision-making, has launched a new program called What Works Cities...
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Outgoing Illinois CIO Details Progress of IT Consolidation
Just before ending his 38-year career in government, outgoing Illinois CIO Kirk Lonbom delivered a report on the status of digital transformation to the state Legislature. Facing a new incoming...
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Hawaii Gov. Names State Comptroller Murdock to CIO Position
For his second term, Hawaii Gov. David Ige has chosen Air Force veteran and former comptroller Douglas Murdock to be the state’s chief information officer. Murdock, 58, replaced outgoing CIO Todd...
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