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Denver Announces 311 System Upgrade with Social Listening Capabilities
Denver, a consolidated city-county, is making ongoing changes to how it interacts with more than 650,000 residents, resolves service issues and gets ahead of potential community problems as they...
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Auditor General's Report Adds to Case for Centralized Illinois ERP
An annual independent financial reporting and compliance audit makes a strong case for Illinois’ politically contested enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. The report from the Illinois Auditor...
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Former Intel Exec Ready to Help Bring Broadband to Rural Colorado
Tony Neal-Graves, a former Intel Corp. vice president who was recently named executive director of Colorado’s broadband office, spent the first three weeks at his new job meeting people in state...
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Taser Offers Free Body Cameras for One Year, Changes Name to Axon
Taser, already the dominant provider of police body cameras, is temporarily lowering its prices for new customers — to zero. The company announced April 5 that it’s going to provide one Axon Body 2...
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How Infrastructure Disrepair Is Holding Back Autonomous Vehicles
On April 4, Department of Transportation (DOT) Secretary Elaine Chao spoke to a group of business leaders at a town hall-style event with business CEOs and suggested that an infrastructure package...
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Florida House Committee Moves Forward with Bill to Terminate the State IT...
Despite the warnings of higher costs and disjointed operations from prominent technology experts, the Florida House Appropriations Committee passed legislation on April 5 to terminate the Agency for...
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Rhode Island Innovation Officer Richard Culatta Departs, Heads to Education...
Richard Culatta, Rhode Island’s chief innovation officer, will leave the state for a job with an international education organization in Washington, D.C., it was announced April 5. Culatta, who was...
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Mobile Storage Drive Frees Up Your Phone, Encrypts Content
Room to Grow The SanDisk iXpand Flash Drive is a mobile storage device designed to help users free up space on their iPhone and iPad — now offering up to 256 GB of additional capacity. It features a...
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What’s New in Civic Tech: NYC Funding Program Boosts Health Tech Startups
What's New in Civic Tech takes a look at highlights and recent happenings in the world of civic technology. NYC Funding Program to Support Health Tech Startups The New York City Economic Development...
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Hillsborough County, Fla., Uses Real-Time GIS to Target Zika Virus
Aedes Aegypti, watch your back. Officials in one southwest Florida county say 2017 is the year they hope to home in on the Zika virus-carrying mosquito species using a streamlined workflow and a...
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How Government Is Reforming IT Procurement and What it Means for Vendors
Flexibility. If there’s one thing that everybody involved in government procurement — chief information officers, procurement officials, vendors and civic tech folk — appear to agree on, it’s that the...
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Reliable, Connected Infrastructure Is Vital to the Future of Autonomous...
Much of the excitement swirling around the emerging autonomous vehicle movement naturally involves the cars themselves. These sophisticated, self-driving autos — now being trialed and modified on...
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Deep Machine Learning Startup Pluto AI Raises $2.1M
Pluto AI, a predictive analytics platform for water utilities, has wrapped up a $2.1 million seed round. The round, which comes amid the company’s pilot test phase, saw participation from the...
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Cybersecurity Has a Metrics Problem — Here’s What You Can Do About It
Almost 4.2 billion records were exposed in 4,149 data breaches in 2016, according to a recent report from Risk Based Security. The worst-hit sectors were businesses at 51 percent of reported breaches,...
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North Carolina Governor Names New State CIO
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper has named Eric Boyette, at left, to serve as the state's chief information officer and lead the state’s IT services. Boyette will take over the position from Danny...
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NYC Considers Codifying Startup's Temperature-Monitoring Sensor
New York City’s long-standing civic tech innovation competition, BigApps, recently opened to 2017 applicants, and as the next group begins to take shape, the New York City Council is considering a...
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Even in the world of urban, government technology, activist and civic tech investing — socially conscious as it is — the idea is to find companies that will make a splash when they exit. After looking...
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Trump’s Infrastructure Plan: What’s Included?
President Donald Trump held a forum this past week to discuss how he plans to implement one of his central campaign promises, a trillion-dollar infrastructure plan. Here are some of the top headlines...
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ClearGov Launches Stat Dashboard for School Districts
ClearGov, a startup known for delivering interactive statistics dashboards to local governments, is moving to also serve K-12 school districts. The business has launched its new line of stat...
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Boston Open Data Challenge Will Highlight City's New Data Portal
Boston wants to highlight the increased potential of its overhauled open data portal, Analyze Boston, and is doing so by hosting an open data competition for technologists. Analyze Boston is a new...
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