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Kansas Chooses PayIt to Build Digital Citizen Services
The state of Kansas has chosen PayIt, a home-grown startup, to help it beef up the digital services it offers to citizens. The company, based on the Kansas side of Kansas City, actually operates in a...
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Survey: Government Still Has a Ways to Go in Adopting Agile
Agile development methodologies — which emphasize iteration and flexibility over holistic delivery — are making their way into government technology. But government still has a lot to change. That...
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TiECon Tech Entrepreneurship Conference Embraces Gov Tech Market
TiECon, which bills itself as the largest tech-focused entrepreneurship conference in the world, is including a track on government technology for the first time this year — and in an effort to get...
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What's New in Civic Tech: New York City Rebukes FCC's Actions on Internet...
What's New in Civic Tech takes a look at highlights and recent happenings in the world of civic technology. New York City Takes on the FCC Earlier this month, legislation was passed that negated...
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Can Predictive Analytics Help Avert Pittsburgh's Next Disaster?
On a refreshingly sunny day in mid-April, government officials and data experts gathered at a newly renovated conference room at the University of Pittsburgh to discuss the city’s next catastrophic...
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Will Innovative Technologies Help Wyoming Change the Way We Use Coal?
Wyoming is getting innovative with energy. Back in January, Gov. Matt Mead shared in his State of the State address that an Integrated Test Center — an effort that is part of the state’s carbon...
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3 Moves California's Utility Authority Is Making to Fluidly Meet Agency,...
The California Public Utility Commission is looking to technology to shore up efficiency and drive the business processes of the regulatory agency forward. From modernizing its overall technology...
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Cities Take a Stand Against the FCC's Proposed Net Neutrality Rollback
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announcement that the rules around Internet service classifications could bring considerable changes for service providers and their customers, has some...
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Can Blockchain Technology Secure Your Vote?
As we passed the 100-day mark in the new Trump administration, many questions are still being asked about how to best address voting in the future. Back in January of this year, I described how the...
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FirstNet CEO: All AT&T LTE Bands Available for First Responders by End of Year
Just one month after awarding the contract for the multibillion dollar First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet) project to telecom giant AT&T, FirstNet CEO Mike Poth announced that one of the...
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New Emerging Tech Group Forms Within Delaware State Government
At the NASCIO Midyear conference in Arlington, Va., last week, we talked to state chief information officers about whose job it is to be looking around the corner at emerging technologies that might...
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Trump's American Technology Council to Coordinate Fed's IT Vision, Strategy,...
As 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama was very much a tech president — his two terms included many technology firsts, and as Government Technology reported last year, his own digital...
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Chicago's Brenna Berman Leaves City Hall, Continues to Use Technology to...
Brenna Berman may have left her role as CIO of Chicago, but that doesn't mean she's finished helping the city through technology modernization and facilitating public-private partnerships (P3s)....
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The One-Two Knockout Punch for Broadband — Co-ops Partner With Local...
Though the chances of a broadband stimulus program similar to the one at start of the Obama administration are looking slim, going back further in history points to a tactic that very well might...
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Legacy Systems: They Are All Fundamentally Obsolete
Some people are afraid to wake sleeping giants, but it's the giants that may not wake the next day that keep government IT personnel up at night. These silent legacy computer system behemoths are a...
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Alabama Office of IT Is One Signature Away from Autonomy
For roughly the last five months, the Alabama Office of Information Technology (OIT) has been operating under a new structure that pulls it out from under its original footing within the Department of...
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Pushing Body-Cam Video to the Cloud: Is Utah's Network Up to the Task?
Mike Hussey has a broadband problem. At the NASCIO Midyear conference last week in Virginia, the Utah state CIO told Government Technology that broadband ranks near the top of his priority list. Like...
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Los Angeles, Microsoft Unveil Chip: New Chatbot Project Centered on...
The city of Los Angeles’ newest IT employee is an as-yet unsung hero who assisted more than 180 people in 24 hours and has answered more than 1,400 queries to the nation’s second-largest city. On...
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Colorado Turns to 'Mini-Bids' to Streamline, Simplify IT Procurement
Traditional government procurement processes are often considered problematic, which is why many jurisdictions (think California, Ohio and Utah) are starting to mix it up — including Colorado, where...
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Arizona Management Systems Principles Improve State Processes, Save Millions
It’s been more than four-and-a-half years since former Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer established the state’s Government Transformation Office, tasked with helping agencies design processes to improve their...
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