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Year in Review: Making Sense of 2014
Looking back at 2014, one can’t help but be struck by the pace of technological change. Autonomous vehicle activity ramped up this year — and commercial driverless vehicles could hit public highways...
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Searchable Legislative Video Archive Gets Funded in California
Funding has been secured to fully develop a new searchable video and social engagement tool that will help journalists and citizens keep a watchful eye on California state government. Digital...
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Cities Adopt Cloud-Based Approaches to Disaster Recovery
Information technology downtime is a costly proposition. Based on industry surveys, it can cost an organization as much as $5,600 a minute, or well over $300,000 per hour in losses, according to IT...
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Seattle Police Hackathon Tackles Video Transparency
This collection contains more than 1.6 million movies – 314,000 hours of footage spanning 360 terabytes of disk space ... and it's growing. It’s not Netflix – it’s the Seattle Police Department’s...
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First-of-its-Kind Map to Aid Policymakers on Climate Change
It started -- as a good story should -- at an Addis Abba hotel. Roger Sayre, the Senior Scientist for Ecosystems at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), had finished presenting a new map at the 2013...
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The Top 15 Security Predictions for 2015
credit: Katherine Lohrmann As top security companies, magazines and bloggers came out with their predictions for 2015, one simple message emerged: more of the same – only worse. Since 2014 brought us...
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7 Essential IT infrastructure strategies that customers need now
credit: Katherine Lohrmann More than fifty years ago, U.S. government leaders recognized a huge infrastructure need for our nation to succeed both economically and militarily. In order for goods and...
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Data-Driven Innovation: Why States Should Build Multipurpose Analytics...
Many of the most successful tech companies — including Microsoft, Amazon and Apple — have attained their superior status not just by building a series of products, but by also creating a powerful...
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4 Common Mistakes in Government Social Media Policies
You probably know that developing a good social media policy for your agency is important. A solid policy guides staff, minimizes risk and helps citizens understand your approach to social. However,...
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3 Lessons from New York's Website Redesign
In 2013, the New York state website had lapsed into disrepair. For 15 years it was left relatively stagnant. Upkeep relegated to maintenance. Navigation tangled in rambling menus and redundant links,...
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Using Social Media Data to Identify Outbreaks and Control Disease
The recent Ebola outbreak unearthed an interesting phenomenon. A “mystery hemorrhagic fever” was identified by HealthMap — software that mines government websites, social networks and local news...
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4 Cities Jumpstart Civic Tech Solutions with CityCamp
This weekend, four cities are inviting citizens, civic hackers and public officials to think about municipal challenges and how civic technology partnerships can solve them. The events are part of...
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Will Open Source Security Be on the Federal Agenda in 2015?
Open source code security has been in the spotlight since the Heartbleed bug infected the Canada Revenue Agency website last year. Found embedded in OpenSSL, one of the Web’s most common security...
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Data Sharing and Analytics: Changing HHS For the Better
The Missouri state Medicaid agency MO HealthNet covers some 880,000 people. How sick are they? How much does it cost to treat them? Until recently, no one really knew. As in many states, Missouri...
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FCC Commissioner to Tech Industry: It’s Time to Reinvent Textbooks, Teaching
SAN FRANCISCO -- On the heels of its Dec. 19 decision to raise Internet connectivity funding for schools by $1.5 billion, the Federal Communications Commission urged Silicon Valley to couple funding...
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Could Better Health Be all in the Wrist?
America is dangerously fat. The nation’s obese population puts itself at greater risk of coronary heart disease, diabetes, stroke and cancer, while contributing $190 billion in annual health-care...
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Digital Health Dilemma: Regulators Struggle to Keep Pace with Health-Care...
Federal health-care regulators walk a fine line between protecting the public’s health and fostering innovation in a huge sector of the nation’s economy. But because the pace of new product...
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Fingerprint-Supported Web Portal Helps Kentucky Protect Vulnerable Citizens
Kentucky is seeking to implement more stringent criminal records searches for those wanting to care for some of the state’s most vulnerable citizens. Though still in the embryonic stage, the Kentucky...
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Yelp, Socrata Partner to Make Restaurant Inspections Public
Yelp has grown to be a staple for word-of-mouth reviews. But now, the San Francisco-based company, popularized for its restaurant ratings, has partnered with the open data company Socrata to expand...
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NYC Talks Data Needs for Disease Outbreak Management
In a Jan. 13 presentation to the federal Health IT Policy Committee, Annie Fine, M.D., a medical epidemiologist in the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, described both the...
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