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Culture Shift Sparked by Government Agencies Involving Users in Redesign...
State and local government website design is changing. Across the country, agencies are putting a new group at the center of such efforts — the citizens who actually use digital services, services...
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Navigating the Future of Electric and Autonomous Vehicles
As executive director of the Global Connected Customer Experience in the Global Public Policy organization for General Motors, Harry Lightsey is responsible for handling all of the newer technologies...
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Go Boston 2030 Vision and Action Plan Outlines Region's Next Generation of...
"This isn't our plan,” said Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, “this plan came from the people." Addressing an audience surrounded by fellow city officials and department heads, Walsh unveiled the city’s...
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NYC Woos Data Newbies With New Open Data Portal Home Page
Five years to the day after New York City’s Open Data Law was signed into law, the municipality marked the legislation’s anniversary on Tuesday, March 7, with something for newbies — the launch of a...
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Oakland, Calif., Names New CIO
Oakland, Calif., has taken another step in its journey toward becoming a smarter, more tech-focused city with the appointment of a new chief information officer on March 3: Andrew “Pete” Peterson...
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Analytics Tools Could Be the Key to Effective Message-Driven Nudging
Appealing to the nuances of the human mind has been a feature of effective governance for as long as governance has existed, appearing prominently in the prescriptions of every great political...
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Chief Data Officers: Mapping Which State and Local Governments Have a CDO
The role of chief data officer (CDO) is relatively new to government. The position has been increasingly added to states, cities and counties over the last few years, with a handful of people filling...
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The Job of Data: The Chiefs in Charge of Data in the C Suite
Monitoring snowplows in real time to keep residents moving, streamlining park maintenance and working to improve highway safety are all ways state and local agencies leverage data to generate results...
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'Envision Charlotte' Cities Share a Mindset Bent on Practical Achievement
What a difference a year can make. Organizers of the Envision America technology initiative say the momentum around civic technology and data-driven government has ramped up significantly since they...
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Pre-Seed Startup Begins Collecting Pilot Cities, Hopes to Build Seamless...
A pre-seed startup, founded by an IT industry veteran, is strategizing to rapidly set up a library of digital services that can easily translate from government website to government website — and...
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The 6 Challenges of Autonomous Vehicles and How to Overcome Them
In many ways, the age of the autonomous vehicle (AV) has already begun. Cities nationwide are entering partnerships with companies to allow testing on public roads, the U.S. Department of...
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States Unconcerned About 18F's Previous Disregard for Security Procedures
18F — a federal agency that works to improve federal IT management and reshape the way government buys, builds and shares technology — was recently found to have disregarded several IT security rules...
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Startup in Residence Is Now Accepting Applications for 2017 Cohort
Applications are now open for Startup in Residence (STiR) 2017, a 16-week program that connects municipal governments in Northern California with startups that want to create new technologies to...
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Rage Against the Routine: Public CIOs Have a Jobs Problem
Public CIOs have a jobs problem. It may not be their fault, but it is their problem. As the urgency grows about preserving and creating jobs in an era where human work is being displaced by software,...
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After Three Years as South Carolina's CISO, Marcos Vieyra Resigns
On Friday, March 3, Marcos Vieyra, the chief information security officer (CISO) for the state of South Carolina, completed his last day in the role. Vieyra was originally appointed to the position...
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Columbus, Ohio, Hires City's First Chief Innovation Officer
The city of Columbus, Ohio, has hired a new lead for its multi-million-dollar smart city initiative. Mike Stevens, a former deputy director of the Columbus Department of Development, will head up the...
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New Hyper-Converged Platform, Cloud Architecture Streamline Louisiana IT,...
Since the Great Recession and the rise of IT, states across the nation have sought to save money while simultaneously re-engineering — and often centralizing — their IT operations. In Louisiana, those...
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What's New in Civic Tech: NYC Releases RFP for First Publicly Funded Virtual...
What's New in Civic Tech takes a look at highlights and recent happenings in the world of civic technology. NYC Releases RFP for First Publicly Funded Virtual Reality Lab New York City has released a...
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Video Analytics Is Ripe for Automation, But Is Government Ready?
Looking back at the timeline of video’s evolution, it isn’t hard to see how we arrived at this point. The bulky cinderblock-shaped surveillance cameras once dotting the walls of banks and...
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Pop.Up: Not Just Another Flying Car Concept
Will your future taxi drive or fly? You decide by app, based on sober, adult metrics like time, traffic and emissions — and maybe also depending on whether you just want to indulge your inner child...
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