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A National Look at Student Data Privacy Legislation
This map plots 2014 student data privacy legislation across the U.S. with their descriptions and links to the complete bill text. As the legislative session wraps up, student data privacy bills are...
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$23 Million Govtech Fund Opens for Business
Government tech startups have reason to cheer: $23 million in seed funding is up for grabs by way of the Govtech Fund, a new venture capital fund aimed at irrigating a rising crop of...
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South Carolina Centralizes IT Oversight
The South Carolina Department of Revenue data breach in 2012 exposed 3.6 million Social Security numbers to hackers. While the rupture was disruptive and damaging to those whose data was compromised,...
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San Francisco Airport Launches #Converge@flySFO Innovation Space
Local governments and education institutions aren't the only ones dedicating labs and centers for innovation -- San Francisco International Airport (SFO) has now joined them, announcing on Sept. 16...
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City Concerns Halt Airbnb Law in San Francisco
Tax collection, insurance coverage and enforcement issues sent San Francisco’s most recent proposal to regulate home lodging services like Airbnb back to the drawing board Sept. 15 during a seven-hour...
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Could The Weather Company Change Emergency Alerting?
The Weather Company, best known for The Weather Channel and weather.com, is getting into the emergency alert business -- a natural fit given the company's focus and market saturation. Using its...
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California Innovation Officers Reveal Success Secrets
If governments want to get serious about innovation, they need to foster an environment where it's OK for employees to fail while trying new ideas, according to some of California's leading...
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U.S. CIO Steven VanRoekel Steps Down to Work on Ebola Response
Steve VanRoekel will end his tenure as federal chief information officer and join the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) as its chief innovation officer. VanRoekel will help...
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MS-ISAC: Cybersecurity Collaboration is Needed Now More than Ever
Inside the MS-ISAC Security Operations Center (SOC) photo credit: Ms. Krista Monte The scale of cyberattacks, the cost of data breaches and the significant ramifications to our nation have never...
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Predictive Policing: The Promise and Perils
It should come as no surprise that the man who introduced computer-driven performance management — known originally as CompStat — to policing, is generally credited with envisioning how predictive...
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Cloud Computing: (Nearly) Ready for Prime-Time Policing
As local law enforcement agencies continue to pursue smarter policing, one huge potential benefit on the horizon is cloud computing. Three-quarters of the nation’s 14,000 local law enforcement...
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7 Code for America Cities Named for 2015
The names of seven new jurisdictions were announced Tuesday, Sept. 23, as part of Code for America’s (CfA) 2015 Fellowship -- a program to jumpstart tech projects that achieve government and citizen...
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Will the FCC Vacate State Broadband Restrictions?
As the Internet of Things expands and demand for connectivity rises, high-speed broadband will likely become a necessity rather than a luxury for most homes and businesses. But access to reliable and...
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Social Media: Big Lessons from the Boston Marathon Bombing
At 2:49 p.m. on April 15, 2013, at the height of Boston’s annual Marathon, two bombs exploded near the finish line, killing three people and injuring more than 260 others. What followed was an...
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Are You Prepared to Migrate Off Windows Server 2003?
Microsoft will discontinue support for Windows Server 2003 on July 14, 2015. Any bugs, security vulnerabilities or other problems users have with the software will force them either to live with a...
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Is the FCC Dragging Its Feet on Net Neutrality?
More than 3.7 million comments were submitted to the Federal Communications Commission about how it should regulate Internet traffic. But the commission doesn't appear to be any closer to making a...
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Crowdsourcing Offers Gov Funding Option for Civic Tech
New research from Stanford University indicates crowdsourcing may be the next big funding tool for small-scale civic tech projects and initiatives. Rodrigo Davies, a civic technologist and Stanford...
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Digital States Survey: Which States Are the Best of the Best?
Earlier this month, e.Republic's Center for Digital Government released its 2014 Digital States Survey, which gives states an overall grade based on how well they are using digital technology. On the...
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Nextdoor Debuts Service for Public Agencies
Nextdoor.com, the private social network for neighborhoods, announced today the launch of Nextdoor for Public Agencies. The new platform will allow cities and their agencies nationwide to easily sign...
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Los Angeles County to Consolidate Data, IT Systems
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted on Tuesday, Sept. 30, to replace its aging central data center and consolidate most of its 64 other data repositories into a single facility. Under...
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