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Rethinking Justice: Can Data-Driven Approaches Remove Politics and Bias from...
American prisons and jails don’t stop people from committing crimes again for the same reason that cars aren’t magically repaired after being locked in a garage for 20 years. Sometimes things have to...
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Winners in Virginia's Governor's Workforce Innovation Challenge Announced
Late last month, creative people from across Virginia brainstormed to solve the state's workforce challenges in the Datathon 2016: Governor's Workforce Innovation Challenge. And on Sept. 7, two...
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Smart Cities Are More Pragmatism than Pure Invention, Singapore CIO Says
SAN FRANCISCO — If there was a quintessential centerpiece of smart city ingenuity, Singapore might be it. The city-state, with its diverse population of about 5.6 million residents, has been active...
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Apple Unveiling 2016: Say Hello to iPhone 7, Apple Watch Series 2 and...
At Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco, Apple CEO Tim Cook took to the stage for the company's annual fall update, and unveiled new products and hardware updates. If you weren't able to...
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The Role of Data Analytics in Predictive Policing
From the right vantage point, it is almost possible to watch the steady tide of technology seeping into the briefing rooms and patrol cars of American law enforcement agencies. The devices and...
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Council of Global City CIOs Launches to Share IT Frameworks, Principles,...
Those who are great at what they do get there by copying those who came before them, sharing ideas with contemporaries, or — even better — just stealing them. The Council of Global City CIOs,...
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There’s No Turning Back on Digital Gov, U.S. CTO Says
SAN FRANCISCO — With the Obama administration coming to a close this January, the question circulating in the tech community isn’t so much about next IT projects, but whether his innovation...
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National Transit Map Seeks to Close the Transit Data Gap
In bringing together the first ever map illustrating the nation’s transit system, the U.S. Department of Transportation isn’t just making data more accessible — it’s also aiming to modernize data...
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Welcome to the Age of the Government Business Portal
A restaurateur in Southern California might need as many as 26 licenses and permits before they can start serving food. That means filling out the same information on multiple forms. It means dealing...
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How Digital is Your State?
Just as a school teacher roots for his students, the Center for Digital Government is hopeful every two years that each respondent to its Digital States Survey will astound with reports of their...
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CIOs Gather to Talk Leadership and Outsourcing at NASCIO, Day One
ORLANDO, Fla. — There was no shortage of attendees at the 2016 National Association of State CIO’s (NASCIO) Annual Conference, where more than 600 state technology leaders and private-sector partners...
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NASCIO Day Two: Rise of the Enterprise-Level CISO
ORLANDO, Fla. — Cybersecurity is a hot topic these days, and a report released by the National Association of State CIOs and consulting firm Deloitte has honed in on the many issues state chief...
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Indiana Takes Aim at Opioid Crisis with Analytics
In the 2016 Digital States Survey, Indiana received a Best Practice award for its efforts in Finance and Administration. It’s an area, CIO Dewand Neely explained at the annual NASCIO conference in...
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Public Sector Needs a Mix of Tech, Policy Tools to Combat the Opioid Epidemic
PHOENIX — The severity of the nation’s opioid epidemic is only increasing, and in response, state and local governments are hunting for both tech and policy tools to combat the problem. Opioid...
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Workforce Modernization: Tennessee's IT Reclassification Results in...
ORLANDO, Fla. — In mid-2013, Tennessee embarked on a journey — it had all of its IT personnel reapply for their jobs. The reason? To keep its employees and their skills up to date. And at the 2016...
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Delaware CIO: Broadband Is the Great Enabler
What's the most disruptive technology to chief information officers? It depends on who you ask. Delaware CIO James Collins points to broadband as the great enabler of all disruptive technologies,...
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What Obama Did for Tech
People love to blame a president when things go wrong. A target for each man’s Two Minutes Hate, the age-old practice gained a convenient vehicle in the minting of a catchy new colloquialism bearing...
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In Los Angeles, Tech Is All About the Customer
Embracing technology for technology's sake is missing the point. While it's easy to get swept up in the excitement of the latest feature release in a piece of software, forward-thinking tech leaders...
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Presidential Debate 2016: Cybersecurity Highlights Significant Differences...
The first of three presidential debates Sept. 26 was full of the typical political jabs and deflections, but at least six minutes of the roughly two-hour ordeal fell to discussion of cybersecurity and...
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What Obama Did for Tech: Transparency and Open Data
Editor's note: This story is part of a six-part series on how Obama has, over the last eight years, elevated the profile of IT in the public sector. He taught government how to ride the technology...
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