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Report: Expect Growth in Government IT Spending in 2017
Onvia, a business-to-government market intelligence firm, thinks government information technology spending will continue to grow under the Trump administration. In a 2017 forecast, the organization...
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SeeClickFix: Users Reported 42 Percent More Issues in 2016
It was a year of growth for SeeClickFix. The company, which sells a platform where citizens can report problems for government to fix, saw its number of reported issues rise to 931,699 in 2016,...
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Public Purchasing Cooperative Signs Agreement to Buy from Amazon Business
Members of the public purchasing cooperative U.S. Communities will be able to buy select products through Amazon Business under a new agreement between the two organizations. The agreement opens up...
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Taser Creates AI Unit Filled With Startup Acquisitions
The largest police body camera provider in the U.S. now has a dedicated artificial intelligence unit. Taser announced Feb. 9 that it has acquired an AI startup, Dextro, along with the computer vision...
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Silicon Valley Accelerator Takes on Gov Tech Companies
With its 20th group of companies, the Silicon Valley accelerator 500 Startups is diving into gov tech companies. The accelerator has taken on six government-facing companies in its January-May program...
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OpenDataSoft Launches Partner-Friendly Open Data Platform
OpenDataSoft has launched a new open data platform with a specific focus on enabling collaboration between partners. The Open Data as a Service platform, which the company has already run with...
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Vievu Sues Taser for Interfering with Phoenix Body Camera Contract
Vievu, a police body camera and video evidence firm, is suing Taser over a contract dispute with the city of Phoenix. The company is alleging that Taser caused the city to go back on a contract it was...
View ArticleOpenGov to Offer Third-Party Software to Help Governments Produce Reports
As part of its budgeting push, OpenGov has partnered with Workiva to combine the companies’ software into a single package for government customers. That means OpenGov will be selling customers not...
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4 Safeguards Cities Should Consider When Collecting Constituent Data
Recent moves by the Trump administration make it critical that cities rethink their approach to certain aspects of citizen data, or else risk legal peril. That’s the conclusion reached by the open...
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Virginia Expands Cybersecurity Training for Veterans in Bid to Fill Vacant...
Roughly three months after it began, Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s Cyber Vets Virginia initiative to retrain veterans to work in the tech sector is expanding with the addition of two academies this spring,...
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How Apps Help Manage the Torrent of Data from Connected Devices
For the utility industry, sensors represent an opportunity — a chance to modernize and update the way power consumption is measured and monitored. But there’s also an inherent challenge. “When you...
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Governors Discuss Better Coordination, Establishing Protocols to Improve...
State leaders gathered to discuss the challenges and next steps their respective states face in the cybersecurity landscape during the winter meeting of the National Governors Association (NGA) in...
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Can Watson Repel Cyberattacks?
By terms of sheer volume, cybersecurity analysis can be a losing bet. The typical security operations center logs almost 17,000 malware alerts in a typical week, according to a report by the Ponemon...
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Government Agencies Reportedly Unfazed By Amazon S3 Outage
The Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage on Tuesday, Feb. 28 that made global news was resolved later the same day — but given the extent of AWS Cloud adoption by a variety of sectors, questions remain...
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The Internet of Things Needs Standardization — Here's Why
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The Internet of Things (IoT) means different things to different parties. For utilities, it's about making a smarter grid by connecting electric or water meters to a central hub....
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Creating User-Centric Services for Residents Is Crucial
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Receiving a speeding ticket or any sort of traffic violation is generally not a pleasant experience. But it is one form of a government-to-customer transaction. Instead of...
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Code for America Increases Recruitment Efforts to Meet Post-Election Demand
In the months since the presidential election, Code for America has heard from an influx of technologists who want to do meaningful work for their country. Such spikes in political interest,...
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State, Local Officials Question Open Data Directives Under Trump
It’s been more than two weeks since the White House deleted much of the public information on its open data portal, and state and municipal officials are among those watching closely to see how the...
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Rhode Island 'Innovation League' Mimics Google’s '20 Percent' Initiative
Size and wealth are no guarantee of innovation. In fact, when it comes to innovating at the state level, size can be limiting, ultimately squelching forward momentum. This could be why Rhode Island,...
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Making It Legal: The Tech Implications of Regulating Recreational Marijuana
The government needs help. On Nov. 9, four states — and the local governments they contain — woke up to a mandate from voters to fully legalize a product that has long been illegal. A product the...
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