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Open Data Event Draws Lawmakers, Startups and City Officials
An assorted lot of legislators, entrepreneurs, city officials, educators, journalists, lobbyists and civic hackers gathered Thursday for the California Forward Summit on Public Data, an event that...
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Localities Deal with Drones -- and the Laws that Govern Them
Who knew that frigid Minnesota would become a drone hotspot? The state Legislature started things when it banned law enforcement and federal use of drones anywhere in the state. Then the FAA stopped...
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Big Data Could Bring Governments Big Benefits
The phrase “big data analytics” conjures images of voluminous server rooms, vast labyrinths of data-manipulating algorithms and a kind of Orwellian pervasiveness only a true technophile could embrace....
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How Does Your City Rate in the U.S. Open Data Census?
While the “best” municipality using open data is still yet to be known, a new census has identified 36 cities making progress opening their data. The census, officially named the U.S. Open Data...
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California DMV Probing Possible Breach of Customer Credit Cards
The California Department of Motor Vehicles said Saturday that it is investigating a potential security breach of its credit card processing services, but officials said the agency had no immediate...
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State Website Helps Navigate Pot Questions
The state launched a new website Thursday to answer common questions about the legalization of retail marijuana and the health impacts related to using the drug. “State agencies worked together to...
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Microsoft Lawsuit Shows Privacy's a Myth
Microsoft’s recent lawsuit against a former employee accused of leaking trade secrets teaches us an important lesson: Your data is not your data. The Redmond-based software giant admitted in court...
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States Scramble to Stop Illegal Gambling at Internet Sweepstakes Cafes
Many Internet cafes that have popped up in suburban strip malls and gas stations offer something more than coffee and access to the Web and email. Known as Internet sweepstakes cafes, they sell time...
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CIOs Battle Funding and Staffing Challenges
State and local CIOs outlined a series of challenges – from replacing 20-year-old systems to making government work seem “cool” to 20-somethings – at Government Technology’s Beyond the Beltway...
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Los Angeles County CIO Improves Communication, Deploys Enterprise Services
Richard Sanchez joined Los Angeles County as an app developer nearly 40 years ago. After serving in a variety of management positions, he was named CIO of the nation’s most populous county in 2008....
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Thinking Big on Sustainability
Sustainability is like dieting. It’s not something you do once and then forget about — it’s a lifestyle change. Like a healthy diet, sustainability is also something that’s good for everyone. The...
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Robots, Drones and the Uncertain Future of Work
At the pinnacle of technological progress, man becomes a god. New machines and software are continually forged in man’s image and taught to do things that once only people could do. A day will come...
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Archiving Pinterest: How One County Tourism Department Did It
Though governments generally praise transparency, it can sometimes create new challenges. In Florida, for instance, the Sunshine Law keeps governments honest while allowing citizens access to any...
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IBM Chooses 16 Cities and Counties for SmartCity Projects
Whatever the politics or geography, it’s a safe assumption that most mayors love innovation. What’s not assured, however, is the funding and resources to implement it. Acting on this holdback and to...
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Connecticut Local Governments Seek Regional 911 Authority
Three Connecticut towns are hoping to get statutory approval on a bill that would help them regionalize their 911 call centers. House Bill 5531 would authorize the cities of East Lyme, New London and...
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Providence's High Tech Plan to Close the 'Word Gap'
The more parents talk, the more kids learn. It sounds obvious, but not until 1995 -- when Betty Hart and Todd Risley of the University of Kansas published the results of a multi-year study -- did we...
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FBI Agent Says No Computer is Safe
The head of the FBI's Pittsburgh Cyber Squad concedes he banks and shops online and calls consumer Internet banking "very safe." But don't assume J. Keith Mularski takes online security for granted....
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Should the Federal Government Open a Spectrum Leasing Agency?
A nonprofit technology research and education organization believes the federal government should establish an agency to rent its spare wireless spectrum to the private sector. The Technology Policy...
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Amazon to Award $150,000 in Credit to Innovative Governments
This month, Amazon placed $150,000 in credits up for grabs for innovative cities using its cloud computing technology -- and another $100,000 in credits to companies using it for public-sector...
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Businesses Use Web, App Data to Rank Consumers’ Value
If you’ve bought a house or car lately, chances are you know your credit score, or at least whether it’s good or bad. But what about your customer loyalty score? Or your identity score? Or your health...
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