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Shared Services Represent the Future of IT in Arizona's Capital City
From her “humble beginnings” in the heart of Chicago, Debbie Cotton has risen through the ranks to become the CIO of Phoenix. Her down-to-earth style and ability to bring others up to speed with city...
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Could the Election Be Hacked?
With the surge in data breaches over the past several years, the prevailing wisdom is that no online data is completely safe from hackers. Banks, governments, insurance companies and small businesses...
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How CIO Morgan Reed Plans to Transform IT in Arizona
Arizona CIO Morgan Reed was named to his post in October 2015, bringing with him 20 years of experience at companies including Intel, Expedia and GoDaddy. Housed within the Department of...
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Police Use Social Media as Front-Line Tool in Fighting Crime
When a football-wielding spring breaker in Alabama threw what many would consider to be a near-perfect spiral toward a city of Gulf Shores squad car, the police didn't overreact, they turned to social...
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How a Simple Data Query Made One D.C. Agency Smarter, More Efficient
One of the biggest benefits of data is its versatility. Washington, D.C.’s Urban Forestry Administration (UFA) turned to tech to answer a simple question, but ended up using the resulting information...
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Startup Aims to Make Auto Cybersecurity Ironclad
If hackers infiltrate a government database, they might take somebody’s Social Security number. If they were to infiltrate a self-driving car, they might take a person’s life. That idea is still very...
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Santa Cruz, Calif., Deploys Fiber-Like Wireless Gigabit Internet Through...
From watching Netflix to building a business to conducting cutting-edge research, we don’t just need technology to be successful — we need it to be fast. That’s why the city of Santa Cruz, Calif., has...
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'Smart Garbage' Startup Cuts City Trash Costs by 40 Percent
The amount of garbage in cities is growing. Global trash production has risen to more than 3.5 million tons, according to the World Bank, which estimates that will hit the 6 million mark by 2025. With...
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Facebook Launches Live Video Feature: What Does it Mean for Government?
Facebook’s newly released video feature has created a lot of hype, primarily among users who embrace the platform as a way to stay in touch with friends and relatives and, of course, share the...
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San Jose, Calif., Partners With Facebook Connectivity Lab to Test Gigabit...
San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo’s goal for the next four years is to make his city the most innovative in the world. To that end, the city announced on April 13 a partnership with Facebook Connectivity...
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Nationwide Network of Urban Chief Data Officers Prompts Collaboration to...
The public sector has the unfortunate reputation of being slow to adopt new innovations and meaningful solutions. It isn’t for lack of trying, of course. It’s more tied to the tar-like pace of...
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This Week in Civic Tech: Tax Prep Services Fight IRS on Free Filing, OpenGov...
This Week in Civic Tech presents a line-up 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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Idaho Sells Home-Grown Unemployment System to Iowa and Vermont
Faster, smarter and cheaper. That’s the name of the game for the Idaho Department of Labor’s Internet Unemployment System (iUS), which launched in 2014 to quickly process unemployment taxes and...
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Pennsylvania Announces Open Data Portal
Pennsylvania is renewing its commitment to transparency. On April 18, Gov. Tom Wolf, who assumed office in January, signed an executive order to create an open data portal. The new portal is mandated...
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Long Beach, Calif., Innovation Team Strikes Up Data-Gathering Internship...
Less than a year into its existence, the innovation team (i-team) looking for new ways to do government work in Long Beach, Calif., has hit a point where it needs to grow. And so it’s turning to a...
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13 Startups Chosen for San Francisco Regional 'Startup in Residence' Program
SAN FRANCISCO -- On Tuesday, April 19, four Northern California cities and a cluster of tech startups confirmed a set of new collaborations to assist citizens and departments on critical issues in the...
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California Cities: Plan for Futuristic Transportation One Step at a Time
CONCORD, Calif. — For a city trying to work with new technology, the future might look a little daunting. The world of tomorrow doesn’t just look different — it looks radically different. Concepts...
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This Week in Civic Tech: Tesla Investigates Self-Driving City Transit,...
This Week in Civic Tech presents a line-up 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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White House Police Data Initiative Doubles Police Data Programs in First Year
For the last several years, the public cry to answer the questions around how law enforcement interacts within the communities it serves left officials with a daunting task. The answers were locked...
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Study Reveals Biggest Barrier to Cloud Adoption
Cloud adoption in government is increasing, and the reasons are many: Adopting cloud services can lend an organization greater flexibility and agility, and save it dollars. But for those C-level...
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