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Schools from 3 States Earn High STEM Ratings
Schools in three states tend to do the best job of preparing graduates in science, technology, engineering and math education, according to the 2013 Best High Schools for STEM Rankings from U.S. News...
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Wyoming Poised for Transformation, Starting with IPv6
As state officials set Wyoming's IT strategy for the coming years, the state is poised to become the first in the nation to have fully adopted Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) by 2015 -- which is...
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NY Comptroller Office Continues With New CIO
The Office of the New York State Comptroller (OSC) announced it will appoint a new CIO. Robert Loomis, who has worked for the OSC for 20 years, will replace Kevin Belden as CIO on July 1. Over the...
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App Review: Buycott Gives the Inside Scoop
Public-sector decision-makers deal with corporate contractors all the time, but how much do they really know about them? The Buycott app is designed to help answer that question. Users download the...
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Clearing Up Cloud Confusion
The cloud services market is confusing. SAS70, SOC2, FedRAMP, ISO27001/2. What do all those abbreviations stand for, and more importantly, what do they mean for government agencies looking to reap the...
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Photo of the Week: Designing and Building a New Musical Instrument
Earlier this month, six teams gathered on a rooftop bar in Brooklyn to participate in the third annual Red Bull Creation competition, where each team had 72 hours to design and build a new musical...
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Maryland Registry Links AEDs to Emergency Responders
In 2008, when NBC journalist and Meet the Press moderator Tim Russert died as a result of cardiac arrest inside an NBC office, questions emerged about the location and use of an automated external...
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Introducing the 21st-Century City Hall
New platforms are transforming the idea of civic duty and reinventing how citizens engage with government. These tools allow users to interact and share feedback with government entities in creative,...
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5 Things Every Good Website Should Have -- and This One Does (Finally)
For 18 years, you have relied on govtech.com -- the digital publication of Government Technology -- to cover news. Today, we are making a little news ourselves. The newly redesigned govtech.com is...
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Knight Challenge Awards Open Government Innovators
The Knight Foundation, dedicated to information access for both the public and the press, named eight winners of the Knight News Challenge on Open Government this week. Winning projects were singled...
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Chicago Announces New CIO
The city of Chicago has hired a new CIO to replace Brett Goldstein, who announced his departure in May. Mayor Rahm Emanuel nominated Brenna Berman, who will assume the roles of CIO and commissioner of...
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Inside the Civic Hacking Movement
Local government agencies are tapping into alternative community co-working spaces, neighborhood tech meetups and civic hackathons to forge innovative tech partnerships, liberate municipal data and...
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Alabama State Agency Enforces BYOD Security
Many state and local government IT departments are embracing BYOD policies to help cut costs and eliminate expensive smartphone contracts. But while saving money is important in maintaining a healthy...
View ArticleMarybel Batjer Appointed Secretary of California Government Operations Agency
Governor Brown today announced the appointment of former Schwarzenegger Cabinet Secretary Marybel Batjer as secretary for the new Government Operations Agency that takes effect on July 1. As a result...
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Some States Won’t Wait for Congress to Pass Online Sales Tax
Not waiting for Congress to act on Internet sales taxes, some states are imposing a sales tax on online transactions starting July 1 by slapping levies on items like telephone ringtones, digital audio...
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Do Yelp Reviews Help or Hurt Government?
Reviewing local restaurants, bars and other city hot spots across the U.S. has become popular on the San Francisco-based website Yelp, but some reviewers are now posting opinions about government...
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Crisis Cleanup Mapping Tool Coordinates Rebuilding Efforts
A series of violent storms put Aaron Titus, disaster coordinator for the New Jersey branch of Mormon Helping Hands, through his paces last summer. He coordinated the dispatching of several hundred...
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Arkansas Horse Racing Industry Gets Automated
As many states experience a decline in horse racing culture — with some even closing tracks — the sport continues to be a significant industry in Arkansas. The state holds races with the purpose of...
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Personal Rapid Transit Revival?
The year is 2033. A bleary-eyed woman heaves her suitcase from a shiny baggage carousel in Los Angeles International Airport. Rather than hailing a cab, she steps into a white, streamlined pod...
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California Announces Private Cloud Offering for 2014
On June 27, the California Office of Technology Services (OTech) announced that it's looking for a vendor for its first private cloud services offering. The agency is prepared to accept vendor bids...
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