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California's Revised Driverless Vehicle Rules Nix Human Driver Requirement
The California DMV has taken another step to safely prepare for a driverless car future, releasing on Friday, March 10, amended autonomous vehicle regulations that have one primary change from the...
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Exclusive: Opportunity Space Enters Y Combinator, Rebrands and Launches New...
With a new name, a new product and a big bucket of potential local government clients lined up, Opportunity Space is heading into the Y Combinator. Or rather, Tolemi. That’s going to be Opportunity...
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USDS Co-Founder to Return to White House
According to a Politico report, Haley Van Dyck, one of the co-founders of the U.S. Digital Service (USDS), is returning to the White House. After leaving during President Obama’s final days, she is...
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Congress, FCC Take Aim at Consumers' Data Privacy
Recent moves by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Republicans in Congress aim to significantly loosen Americans’ control over keeping their data private. On March 1, the FCC approved an...
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The State of the Union for IoT — or Not?
As I left the RSA Conference in San Francisco this year, I was intrigued, yet perplexed, by the presentations, conversations and demonstrations regarding the Internet of Things (IoT). No doubt, the...
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North Dakota Makes Way for New CIO
Gov. Doug Burgum announced the appointment of a Minnesota man as the state’s incoming CIO March 10. According to a news release from Burgum’s office, Shawn Riley will assume the state lead technology...
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Google Machine Learning Competition Offers Millions for Startups
Google is offering prizes worth more than $2 million — including cloud credits and investment opportunities — for startups using machine learning for enterprise and business software. The Web giant...
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SXSW 2017: 6 Smart Mobility Companies to Watch
AUSTIN, TEXAS — Mobility and transportation were recurring topics during the interactive panels on which mayors attending South by Southwest (SXSW) participated. The good news was that there was no...
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State and Local IT Spending Forecast: Education, HHS Top the List
Education and health and human services are poised to be the single largest verticals of government IT spending at the state and local levels in 2017, according to research from the Center for Digital...
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'4 Cs' — Committment, Collaboration, Consistency, Community — Crucial for...
A new white paper co-sponsored by the United Parcel Service and the Consumer Technology Association holds a number of sobering but intriguing revelations for would-be smart cities — among them the...
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Aiming Analytics at Our $3.5 Billion Unemployment Insurance Problem
Cook County is Illinois’ economic powerhouse. Millions of people live and work there, generating billions of dollars in wages. So it was easy to miss the modest operations of about 80 employers...
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Urban Sprawl Data Crucial to Quality of Life, Planet's Health in...
Basic rule of urban design: If you can see it on a map, you’ve got a better chance of being able to lay out a thoughtful plan for development. That’s the impetus behind the recent upgrade to the Atlas...
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How Three Bills Are Poised to Dramatically Alter Oregon's IT Operations
A suite of legislative proposals stand ready to dramatically alter government IT in the state of Oregon — if they make it through the gauntlet that is the state Legislature, that is. The proposals...
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Report: How Governments Could Benefit by Coordinating the Data Structure...
Private companies in the U.S. pay as much as $2.028 trillion of combined annual costs related to reporting compliance with federal regulations, according to some estimates, but a new report has shown...
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Sacramento, Calif., Will Be First of 11 Cities Nationwide to Test 5G...
In April 2017, Verizon will roll out super-fast wireless Internet in the form of 5G pre-commercial services to 11 U.S. cities, and when it does, Sacramento will be the first and only California city...
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Sunshine Week 2017: Where Does Public Access to Government Data Stand?
Technology is to thank for many of the efficiencies enjoyed in the public sector in 2017. It has helped to improve transportation, health care, social services and access to public information. But...
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Do Autonomous Robots Need a ‘Kill Switch’?
Hard Reset: Equipping robots with a “kill switch” is one recommendation a draft report submitted to the European Parliament’s legal affairs committee makes as the government seeks ways to prepare for...
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Utah Finds Unexpected Benefits from Statewide Road Data Project
How many stop signs do you pass on your way to work? How long is each guardrail on your local highway? Most people don’t know, but Utah, however, is able to figure out the answers. Thanks to a program...
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Why Autonomous and Electric Vehicles Are Inextricably Linked
In the ideal scenario for autonomous vehicles (AVs), traffic congestion is greatly reduced; people unable to afford or operate personal vehicles have access to a new form of mobility for jobs and...
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Presentation Remote Lets Users Navigate Content from 100 Feet Away
In the Limelight The Logitech Spotlight presentation remote lets users navigate slides and interact with on-screen content from up to 100 feet away. Spotlight has mouse-like cursor control to play...
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