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What Works Cities Program Adds 12 New Cities
Bloomberg Philanthropies has released the names of the next 12 cities to take part in its What Works Cities initiative (WWC), a $42 million program supporting data-driven strategies and services for...
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Open Data & APIs: Collecting and Consuming What Cities Produce
Editor's note: The Digital Communities Special Report, which appears twice a year in Government Technology magazine, offers in-depth coverage for local government leaders and technology professionals....
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3 Ways Ohio Cities Overcame the Telecoms to Set Up Broadband Networks
COLUMBUS, OHIO — A funny thing happened when Chattanooga, Tenn., set out to create the fastest municipal broadband service in the country: Telecommunications firms got angry and sued the city. Four...
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How Do States Fill Cybersecurity Positions?
Many challenges unite state cybersecurity leaders, starting with recruiting and maintaining the talent needed to protect IT assets from known and emerging threats. At the NASCIO Midyear Conference...
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Digital Assistants: Governments’ Newest Public-Facing Opportunity?
When smartphones first erupted on the scene, governments were slow to realize the potential of offering mobile applications to better connect to their constituents. Over the years, the app has become...
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Wisconsin Aims to Unify the Customer Experience Online
Public-sector IT leaders realize that 50 departments and 50 different citizen-government relationships is not an acceptable way of delivering services in the Internet economy. At the NASCIO Midyear...
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This Week in Civic Tech: Civic Engagement Tools for Election Officials,...
This Week in Civic Tech presents a lineup of notable events in the space that connects citizens to government services. Topics cover the latest startups, hackathons, open data initiatives and other...
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Rising to the Challenge: How 3 Public CIOs Are Confronting Major Mandates
You can bet Illinois CIO Hardik Bhatt isn’t bored. In January Gov. Bruce Rauner signed an executive order that will consolidate the state’s IT offices into a new Illinois Department of Innovation and...
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Digital Communities Special Report: The Ideal Digital City
Editor's note: The Digital Communities Special Report, which appears twice a year in Government Technology magazine, offers in-depth coverage for local government leaders and technology professionals....
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Georgia and Washington Plot Cybersecurity Strategy
The potential for a cyberattack targeting government data is on the radar of most decision-makers, but that doesn't always translate to funding for a comprehensive cyberstrategy. At the NASCIO...
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Successful Government Leaders Adopt Design-Focused, User-Centric Way of...
Editor's note: The following is an excerpt from William Eggers' new book, Delivering on Digital: The Innovators and Technologies That Are Transforming Government, released June 7, 2016. In business...
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4 San Francisco Projects Highlighted During the National Week of Making
SAN FRANCISCO -- On Thursday, June 23, the city of San Francisco celebrated the end of the National Week of Making, held June 17-23, by highlighting four initiatives meant to expand the maker...
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States Band Together for Large-Scale Cloud Purchasing Agreement
Utah has taken the lead on what state IT leaders have hailed as the largest cloud hosting services agreement to date. In just a few short months, the final details will be ironed out on a cooperative...
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How Civic Interests Are Helping Shape Government Innovation
Government and technology are far apart as cultures. Government is deliberate. A wise leader does not subject his roads, power grid and economy to whimsy. He plans everything. Technology is...
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Arizona Department of Administration Pilots 'Facebook at Work' Platform
Unlike many employers, the state of Arizona is now encouraging its workforce to use social media on the job. While it may sound unconventional, the approach is part of a pilot project between Menlo...
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Florida Buttons Up Major Data Center Move in a Mere 100 Days
In the public sector, IT teams are often facing down looming projects and frequently discuss how nail-biting an 18-month timeline can look from the business end of the venture. So, imagine, if you...
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IT Showdown: Tech Giants Face Off Against 18F
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Operating like a tech startup with tactics such as agile development and user-centered design has become a hallmark in the quest to modernize federal websites, apps and databases,...
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Seeking ‘Techquity’: Preparing for Industry While Preserving Diversity
Last September, real estate firm Lane Partners sold its Uptown Station office building in Oakland, Calif., to Uber. The $62.5-billion-plus transportation network company intends to fill the...
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Can Cybersecurity Insurance Improve Threat Management?
Just hours after the terrorist bombs went off in Brussels on March 22, the U.S. House Homeland Security Cybersecurity Subcommittee held a hearing to explore the market-based incentives that...
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Austin, Texas: A Model for Cities Working to Narrow the Broadband Gap?
In Austin, Texas, population 885,000, some 55,000 residents say they don't use the Internet — at all. But the City Council refuses to accept this. “It is critical that every one of our residents has...
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