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For Illinois CIO Hardik Bhatt, the Future is Now
Hardik Bhatt has seen the future. Now his job is to bring it to the state of Illinois. Before Gov. Bruce Rauner named him state CIO in March, Bhatt had spent five years as Cisco’s Internet of...
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Has the Time Come for Software-Defined Data Centers?
Government agencies have been steadily consolidating and in some cases outsourcing their IT infrastructure over the last several years, seeking improved efficiency and better performance. And while...
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Unmasking Hacktivism and Other High-Profile Cyberattacks
“Tim Robertson” has a nice house. It’s a three-bedroom, two-bath American Craftsman, built in 1906, with an American flag flapping on the porch under a canopy of trees that are nearly as old as the...
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States and Localities Consider Security as a Service
As IT leaders have grown more comfortable with the security of software-as-a-service offerings and cloud storage, they also have started turning to cloud-based managed security services. For both...
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How Startups Are Transforming the Smart City Movement
Remember the 1990s visions of the future? Those first incantations of the sweeping “smart city,” so technologically utopian and Tomorrowland-ish in design? The concept and solutions were pitched by...
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Kentucky Unveils Plan to Implement Broadband Statewide
On Monday, Aug. 31, Kentucky leaders kicked off their plans to roll out broadband Internet service throughout the state as part of a three-year public-private partnership. Implementing the...
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What Do the Best Government Websites of 2015 Have in Common?
Aside from recognizing the best websites in government, the Center for Digital Government’s annual Best of the Web awards also provide the world a benchmark of how well state and local governments in...
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Iowa Digital Driver's License Pilot Begins
The company that makes most of the nation’s driver’s licenses — MorphoTrust — is now piloting the first digital driver’s license in the nation. About 100 employees at the Iowa Department of...
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For the Record: Understanding the Technology Behind Body Worn Cameras
Editor's note: This is part of of a three-part series in which Government Technology looks at some of the key technological questions that confront local jurisdictions as they weigh the costs and...
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JerseyNet Offers First Glimpse of FirstNet
The First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet) is learning to walk. For the past few years, industry pundits have questioned the organization’s ability to meet its goal of building a nationwide,...
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The Hard Lesson Everyone Should Learn from Peoria, Ill.'s Twittergate Scandal
“Two [expletive] things to get off my chest: If you don’t like Peoria and want to sit here and [expletive], then leave. And two, who stole my crack pipe?” Peoria, Ill., Mayor Jim Ardis recited from a...
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Body Worn Camera Data Storage: The Gorilla in the Room
Editor's note: This is part two of a three-part series in which Government Technology looks at the technology considerations for body worn cameras. Read part one here. When the Chula Vista, Calif.,...
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Hey Siri, How Will Apple's Big Announcements Affect Government?
On Sept. 9, Apple kicked off its signature fall product release event at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco. The theme of this year’s event focused on Siri, and the world anticipated a...
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This Week in Civic Tech: Predicting Smog Levels with Data, $5 Million for...
This Week in Civic Tech presents a lineup of notable events in the space that connects citizens to government services. Topics cover latest startups, hackathons, open data initiatives and other...
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Federal Tech Legislation to Watch
The Iran nuclear deal and the spectacle that has become the 2016 race for the Oval Office may have gobbled up most of the airtime coming out of Washington D.C., but several pieces of tech-centric...
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Offering a Mappable Look at the Greater 'Health of Cities'
The idea of monitoring the world around us is not a new one, but big data and small sensors are changing the process and what we can learn from the information we collect. For Aclima, a San...
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Data Programs Revolutionize Cincinnati Government
There’s a dream out there among those in the top levels of local government that one day they will be able to lead with clear, concise data from every department they oversee. For many, this dream...
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Salesforce Launches Internet of Things Cloud
SAN FRANCISCO -- Salesforce has made two major announcements for civic innovators. The cloud CRM provider unveiled plans to launch an Internet of Things (IoT) Cloud for smart devices and has...
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Urbanomics Mobility Project Prompts Efficient Urban Growth, a Healthy Economy
Imagine looking at a once insurmountable amount of data and using it to build a better city. In very broad terms, looking to the future for the purposes of city planning or where to put a business...
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Obama Places $160 Million Bet on Smart Cities, Internet of Things
The movement to connect everything to everything else just got a big supporter: the White House. The White House announced this week a national campaign to boost the research, development and...
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