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How Artificial Intelligence Will Usher in the Next Stage of E-Government
Since the earliest days of the Internet, most government agencies have eagerly explored how to use technology to better deliver services to citizens, businesses and other public-sector organizations....
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Boston Invites Smart City Providers to the Table
Calling all technologists, entrepreneurs and urbanists: Boston is ready for its next wave of innovation. On Dec. 9, the city released a request for information (RFI) calling for new ideas to help it...
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Tennessee Prepares to Move Alcohol License, Permit Process Online Following...
The Tennessee Alcoholic Beverage Commission (TABC) will migrate licensing, permitting and evidence-cataloging processes fully online, an agency official said, following a new audit suggesting that a...
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Podcast: Going Hyper-Local with Nextdoor in Louisville
Listen using the player above and subscribe on iTunes and Stitcher so you can take it with you. SHOW NOTES Louisville, Ky., is a city of 377 neighborhoods and now, thanks to a partnership with...
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Can 18F’s Experimental Tech Procurement Make Its Way to State and Local...
If government is truly to start serving constituents the way sleek, modern tech companies serve customers online, perhaps the place to start is with rethinking procurement. 18F, a federal digital...
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How One Startup Broke Into Government
Snagging a government customer can be a daunting prospect for a startup company, typically short on manpower and resources to compete against more established vendors for public-sector contracts. But...
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Long Beach Looks for Next Stage in CISO Evolution
Long Beach, Calif., isn’t following in the footsteps of so many other cities when it comes to its cybersecurity strategies. Where many government organizations are hiring a chief information security...
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The Data Revolution Hits Kansas
Open data: It’s not just for Silicon Valley nerds and East Coast policy wonks anymore. Deep in the heartland there’s a data revolution taking place. In a range of initiatives, municipalities across...
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Practical Uses of the Internet of Things in Government Are Everywhere
In the Internet of Things, the large, cutting-edge projects usually get the most attention. In the public sector, headlines are dominated by infrastructure projects like sensors in roads that help...
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CES 2017: Honing in on Smart Cities, Intelligent Highways and Airport Robots
Panasonic officials trumpeted a “strategic alliance” with Disney theme parks during their Wednesday press conference at CES 2017, bringing none other than Mickey Mouse on stage to do it. But they...
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GovTech 100: Our Second Take on an Emerging Marketplace
#govtech is trending. Strongly. It is an overnight success 30 years in the making. As our masthead suggests, we have been covering the intersection of government and technology for more than three...
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5 Emerging Technologies Making Their Way into the Mainstream
Near-future technologies will change what we do, how we do it, even what we are. What we do: Why build objects, when 4-D printed materials will build themselves? How we do it: Drag a mouse, point a...
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Tech Giants Bring Artificial Intelligence, Reality-Altering Devices to Market
Although artificial intelligence and reality-altering devices may be best known for appearances in futuristic novels or TV series, big tech players including Facebook, Google and Microsoft are working...
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5 State IT Leaders Detail Their Path to the CIO's Office
In 2011, Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley asked Joanne Hale, a professor of management information systems at the University of Alabama, to serve on a commission focused on improving state government IT...
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How APIs Are Central to One County’s E-Government Revitalization
In Douglas County, Colo., an effort is underway, led by the elected county treasurer and assessor, to find better ways of sharing data both with the public and between government offices. Beyond the...
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Ohio Launches Highly Anticipated 18F-Style RFP
Ohio launched a new kind of RFP Jan. 5 aimed at improving participation on the part of smaller cloud-based analytics companies. Government Technology first reported on the effort in early December,...
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Artificial Intelligence Will Help Create a More Responsive Government
When a citizen dials 311, it has been the longstanding preference by mayors to have a city employee on the other end of the line to deliver the ever-valuable personal touch. But when efficiency is the...
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What's the ROI on Local Broadband?
City leaders in Louisville, Ky., have long suspected inconsistencies in the local commercial broadband offerings. Now they have the numbers to prove it. Last spring the city teamed with the IT...
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Freedom to Fail: 4 Takes on Government Innovation Labs
Ask a technology executive what “innovation” means and you probably won’t get a fast, succinct or even very useful answer. Innovation is one of those things that’s hard to define, but you know it when...
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Demystifying Civic Data Through Song, and 10 Other Civic Tech Finalists in...
The average person doesn’t know how to access an API. But they do listen to music. That’s the driving idea behind a proposal from the Office of Creative Research (OCR) in New York: to make data...
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