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Law Enforcement Agencies' Requests for Facebook Data Continue to Rise
Young and old alike, Facebook is where millions of people around the world share details of their lives that might have gone unshared 13 years ago. And if the recently released Facebook report on...
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New York City, Seattle Enlist in Fight to Preserve Internet Privacy for...
In late March, congressional representatives voted along party lines to abolish privacy protections for Web users. The regulation, passed during the Obama administration, forbade Internet service...
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What's New in Civic Tech: A Look at How Mapping Data Makes It Useful
What's New in Civic Tech takes a look at highlights and recent happenings in the world of civic technology. How Mapping Data Makes It Useful What do San Francisco, Santa Monica, Calif., Seattle and...
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Governance Gaps in New Hampshire IT
In the state of New Hampshire, the chief information officer doesn't tend to turn over every time there's a new governor. In fact, as CIO Denis Goulet explained at last week's NASCIO Midyear...
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New Caucus Will Bridge VR Knowledge Gap Among Lawmakers
On May 3, Congress formed a new caucus to help bridge the virtual reality (VR) knowledge gap present in federal government. The Congressional Caucus on Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality...
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Florida’s IT Agency Faces Down Reorganization Threat
In late March, Florida lawmakers took aim at the state’s Agency for State Technology (AST), proposing a rebranding, as well as sweeping reductions to the agency’s overall authority and oversight of...
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Tips for Recruiting Millennials for Local Government Employment in the Age...
The silver tsunami is coming, and standing in its wake are more than 89,000 local governments across the United States. It’s projected that by 2018, 28 percent of public-sector workers will have...
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Demonstration Partnership Policy Readies Sacramento, Calif., for Smart City...
When someone has good idea, take it — if it won't land you in jail or a lawsuit, that is. It's the mindset Sacramento, Calif., Mayor Darrell Steinberg took when releasing the city’s Demonstration...
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Every City Wants to Be Innovative. How Can They Get There?
Word from down under: Cities need to get smarter about data, younger people need to lead the charge, and the U.S. is not exactly out front on this stuff. When Nokia released a detailed analysis on...
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Cybersecurity Reports Agree on Espionage, Differ on Public-Sector Data...
Two studies of Internet security released within one day of each other had many similar findings, primarily that the public sector generally fared no better or worse than retail, business and other...
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How to Transform Business Using Technology
Everywhere you turn, businesses are reinventing themselves around new apps, new digital processes and new ways of reaching customers with 21st-century products and services. At the end of last year,...
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Digital Inclusion Week Begins Amid Ongoing National Efforts to Bridge...
Digital Inclusion Week, an effort aimed at raising awareness for both digital inequities and the ongoing nationwide efforts to bridge such gaps, begins Monday, May 8, with participating government...
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3 Pieces of Advice for Setting Up a Successful Gov Tech Company
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — There aren’t a lot of people in the world who are accustomed to building and implementing technology for the government. But on May 5, a group of people who do have experience in...
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Top 20 U.S. Cities by Budget — and Their CIOs
Washington, D.C., might not even be in the top 20 U.S. cities in population, but it’s tied for second when it comes to municipal budget. A city’s size, as it turns out, is not always the best...
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Arizona Security Leader: Identifying the Threat Is Essential to Meeting It
As protecting government networks and IT assets becomes more and more important, officials in the public sector are increasingly looking to new tools to help them better identify the risks. This was...
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U.S. Census Collaboration to Leverage Data's Societal Problem-Solving Utility
The nation’s next wholesale population count is still more than two years away but U.S. Census Bureau officials are not only preparing to migrate that process online — they’re also working with...
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Millions in Savings Expected from Montana Consolidation Effort
At the NASCIO Midyear conference in Virginia last month, we talked to many state CIOs who echoed the importance of the priorities that make up the organization's top 10 list for 2017. It's a set of...
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5 Keys to Enhancing Health and Human Services Delivery (Industry Perspective)
At last fall's Health and Human Services Summit hosted by Harvard University’s Technology and Entrepreneurship Center, five key areas were illuminated for health and human service agency leaders —...
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Solar-Powered Bench Maker Raises $2.5M in Seed Round
Changing Environments, the company behind the solar-powered bench Soofa, has closed on a $2.5 million seed round that it plans to use to add staff and further develop a secondary product. The funding...
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How Tech-Enhanced Infrastructure Will Promote Equity in Transportation
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — The state of disrepair of the infrastructure in the United States is well documented. According to the American Society of Civil Engineers, the country has repeatedly received a...
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