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Data Helps Calculate the True Costs of Blight
When cities lose population, there’s often a knee-jerk reaction to do something, anything, and do it as fast as possible. The resulting blight is seen as an epidemic that must be stopped, and the...
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Expert: California Car Data Privacy Bill ‘Unworkable’
New California legislation aims to give car owners control over who gets to view data generated from their vehicles. But one expert thinks the bill is fundamentally flawed and potentially dangerous....
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California Report Card Already Leads to Action
In the two months since the California Report Card (CRC) project has been up and running, state government already is noticing results and taking action. Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom, a co-developer of...
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Philly Hackers Map Home Listings to Neighborhood Crime
In any city that tops 1.5 million residents there’s likely to be crime. Philadelphia is no different. It has petty thefts, burglaries, assaults and every so often there is the tragedy of homicide — 58...
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Who’s Making Innovation Official? (Interactive Map)
Over the past couple years, Government Technology has covered the rise of a new position in government that holds a particular kind of promise: that of the chief innovation officer. While there’s...
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High-Tech Buoy System Tracks Galveston Bay Oil Spill
Faced with removing 168,000 gallons of oil in Galveston Bay this week, technology is playing a key role in helping government officials in Texas clean the important waterway while helping protect...
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California State Lands Commission Opens Financial Data
The California State Lands Commission is the latest governmental body and the first statewide agency to open its finances to the public using the cloud-based OpenGov.com platform, ushering in what Lt....
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Jacksonville, Fla., Publishes Online Scorecards for Better Transparency
Opaque governments, pay attention. Jacksonville, Fla., is showing how to do transparency right. On March 5, Mayor Alvin Brown announced the city’s new open data webpage, called JaxScore 1.0, which...
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With Friends in Government, Motorola Beats a Path to Telecom Supremacy
At the eastern end of the San Francisco Bay Area, Sheriff Warren Rupf of Contra Costa County and cigar-chomping Sheriff Charlie Plummer of neighboring Alameda County were political powerhouses...
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Rule Change Opens the Way for Better Train Technology
For decades, federal regulations have kept a popular and highly efficient form of passenger rail technology off the tracks, leaving the United States with trains that are a far cry from the type of...
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3 Reasons Chicago’s Analytics Could be Coming to Your City
As the third largest city in the U.S. at 2.7 million residents, Chicago is known for many things. It has its trademarked windy weather, deep-dish pizzas and that iconic piece of Americana known as...
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California Utility Monitors Power Grid with Analytics
One California utility company recently completed a face-lift. The Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) can now clearly see the state of its grid, displayed on a 30-foot by 8-foot LED video...
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Appallicious Preps for FEMA Disaster Dashboard Launch
Appallicious, a California-based company known for its government open data app offerings, has revealed plans to create an online dashboard to aid recovering communities and local businesses during...
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New Bill Pushes for Expanded DNA Testing in California
California lawmakers are considering legislation that gives wrongfully convicted prisoners a better shot at proving their innocence and being exonerated. Senate Bill 980 allows inmates convicted on...
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Massachusetts' Solution for Digital Voting History Records is 'Plug and Play'
Voting could be the one quintessential act truly representative of American democracy. And yet, as counterintuitive as it might seem, voting history records can be surprisingly undemocratic when...
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CIOs Chime in on Maine Texting Scandal
In response to allegations that some state employees were using text messaging to avoid their conversations being captured by public-records requests, Maine Gov. Paul LePage recently outlawed texting...
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States Use Big Data to Target Hospital Super-Users
In some cities, 1 percent of the population accounts for as much as 30 percent of hospital costs. Dr. Jeffrey Brenner, a physician working in one of the poorest cities in the country, Camden, N.J.,...
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TechAmerica Hires Michael Spierto as Cybersecurity Policy Director
TechAmerica continues to restock its ransacked staff, announcing on April 4 the hiring of Michael Spierto as its Director of Cybersecurity Policy. Spierto comes to TechAmerica from the U.S. House of...
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Want to Increase State Revenue? Offer Lotto Play at the Gas Pump
A trip to the gas pump for California residents could one day make them a millionaire -- and Golden State citizens aren't the only ones presented with such an opportunity. The state’s Lottery...
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Indiana Uses Data Analytics to Lower Infant Mortality, Child Fatality
Having an impact on the outcomes of other agencies' work is not the typical task of Indiana CIO Paul Baltzell and his IT team, but that's about to change. In late March, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence...
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