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Will Maine Create a $500 Municipal Broadband Fund?
The state of Maine is firmly committed to municipal broadband — it just doesn't want to pay for it. If Maine Gov. Paul LePage signs LD1185, the state will create a new fund that would endeavor to...
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Maine Gov. Paul LePage Vetoes State Broadband Fund
After unanimous passage through the House and strong support from the Senate, Maine’s municipal broadband fund bill – LD 1185 – was quietly vetoed by Gov. Paul LePage on June 24. The bill would have...
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NextRequest Record App Supercharges Transparency
Researchers use them for estimates, political groups for lobbying, journalists for reporting, companies for strategy and citizens for civic participation. What are they? Public records requests, the...
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False Alert: Can You Really Trust that Tweet for Emergency Communications?
Over the past few years, there has been skyrocketing growth in the use of social media to get the word out during emergency situations. From fires to disease outbreaks to police shootings, more and...
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Government Regulators Must Protect Citizens Without Impeding Innovation
Though many argue that some government regulations are nonsensical, others believe that such regulations exist to protect us, to correct market failures and to make many aspects of our lives easier....
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'Mathspace' Startup Collects and Responds to Student Data, Dominates at ISTE...
On June 30, Mathspace swept the competition at the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Conference as the No. 1 company to watch in 2015. In a vote and judging panel at the event’s...
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Nashville Uses Data to Track, Improve Workforce Diversity
Nashville is digging deeper into its data – the city's Metro Human Relations Commission and Code for Nashville have unveiled a new data visualization platform that will allow the public to view and...
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Google Classroom Update Opens Platform to Education Developers, Publishers
PHILADELPHIA — In its drive to be the all-in-one cloud provider, Google has released a major upgrade to its Google Classroom platform, offering educators and developers the ability to connect to its...
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CIOs Rethink the IT Department
Technological changes and demographic forces are reshaping government IT departments. After delaying retirement plans during the recession, a large chunk of the public-sector IT workforce is once...
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Oakland, Calif.’s Real-Time Crime Map Uses Data to Drive Community Engagement
In today’s world, there has never been a bigger demand for transparency than when it comes to how law enforcement reacts to crime. So to meet that demand, the city of Oakland, Calif., is launching its...
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Can the Apple Watch Enhance Student Achievement?
We know wearable technology gets people moving by quantifying steps and calories burned. What's unknown, however, is whether -- or how -- wearable technology can influence other areas of behavior,...
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2015 Survey Honors Most Innovative, Pioneering Digital Counties
The power of counties can be traced back to the earliest local governments formed in colonial America, where new entities took shape to pick up the excess work that cities couldn’t handle, and then...
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Unchaining Innovation: Could Bitcoin’s Underlying Tech be a Powerful Tool...
Money becomes more abstract over time. Instead of trading apples for chickens, we start trading apples for beads. Beads (pretty and useful) eventually are replaced by gold (still pretty, less useful),...
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Cloud-Based Startup Connects City Forms with GIS Mapping
It’s no secret that cities are at war with paper. Paper forms, paper records, paper ledgers and notices -- they’re often dubiously interwoven into civic duties. On July 10, however, the New...
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Will Chicago’s Cloud Tax Stick?
On June 9, the city of Chicago’s Department of Finance decreed (PDF) a new tax for the city. Labeled an “amusement tax,” a new 9 percent fee applies to services or engagements undertaken for...
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Is Edge Computing Key to the Internet of Things?
Some say edge computing will be the brains behind the Internet of Things. Others aren’t so sure. Like its name implies, edge computing pushes computing power to the edges of a network, so instead of...
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Tennessee Pops Lid on New Alcohol Licensing Platform
Tennessee’s whiskey roots run deep. Craft distilleries pocket themselves from county to county. Legislative fights have erupted over state recipe rights. And the world over, the reputations of Jack...
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9 Localities Commit to Open Data Standard for Construction, Building Permits
Nine localities -- at both the city and county level -- have committed to a set of open data building and construction permit standards, a move primed to boost insights into the housing market and...
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Obama's ConnectHome to Bring Broadband to Low-Income Homes in 28 Communities
On July 15, the White House announced its newest commitment to the future of America’s digital infrastructure. A pilot program called ConnectHome will spur broadband Internet equity programs in 28...
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Forgotten Inmates: Can Technology Help Prisons Remember?
A young man sat on the floor of a 5-foot by 10-foot cell with his wrists cuffed in his lap. He wasn’t sure how long he had been there because no one had come to see him in what seemed like a very long...
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