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Montgomery County, Md.'s First Chief Innovation Officer to Depart
Dan Hoffman, the first chief innovation officer for Montgomery County, Md., is leaving his position to become an assistant city manager in Gainesville, Fla., according to a community news report....
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Michigan CIO David Behen to Step Down, Assume Role in Private Sector
After serving for six years as Michigan's CIO, David Behen will step down on June 16 to pursue an opportunity with a global company headquartered in Michigan, Gov. Rick Snyder announced Friday, June...
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Massachusetts Mulls IT Centralization, Cabinet-Level Secretary of Technology...
Shifting focus slightly from consolidation to consistency and standardization, Massachusetts will reorder its IT office to add a cabinet-level secretary position in a move aimed at further modernizing...
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Boston Enters Partnership to Ensure New Developments are Broadband-Ready
Boston continues to make good on Mayor Marty Walsh’s commitment to providing broadband Internet access to residents. On May 30, the city’s Planning and Development Agency (BPDA) and the Department of...
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Citizen Service Center In-A-Box Makes Pasadena, Calif.’s 311 Phone System...
What do you get when a major windstorm hits a 100-plus-year-old city? A recipe for disaster. That’s what Pasadena, Calif., city officials faced in 2011 when severe gusts of wind toppled hundreds of...
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San Jose, Calif., Releases Autonomous Vehicle RFI
While San Jose, Calif., may lie in the heart of Silicon Valley, city hall has not emulated the innovation of its neighbors. Mayor Sam Liccardo, however, is working to reverse that trend in a few ways:...
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The Trouble if Security Awareness Training Is Mainly a Penalty
Creating an enterprisewide “culture of security” is almost always listed as a top priority for experienced security and technology leaders in the public and private sectors. Back in early 2007, when I...
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Jurisdictions Can Work with Entrepreneurs — But the Process Isn’t Without...
There is a metaphorical chasm at the heart of civic tech. Standing on one side of the divide are municipal and state governments, anxious to enhance digital services, reduce costs, bolster efficiency,...
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Apple WWDC 2017: 5 Key Takeaways and What They Mean for Government
At Apple’s 2017 annual worldwide developer conference (WWDC) held June 5, 5,300 developers from around the world gathered at San Jose, Calif.’s McEnery Convention Center to explore new updates in the...
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Pennsylvania Launches Transparency Portal Detailing $100 Billion in...
Pennsylvania is in the midst of a budget crisis. With a projected deficit of $700 million by the end of 2017, the state is looking for innovative ways of reducing costs while continuing to provide...
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5 Steps Agencies Can Take to Prepare for Pitfalls in the Cloud (Industry...
The merits of cloud have long been a point of discussion. Is a public or private cloud more preferable? What should government consider versus the private sector when using a cloud-based content...
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Agencies in Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota Make Strides in Federated ID...
Full partnerships will take time to develop, but state and county agencies are exploring expanding ideas of teamwork beyond traditional notions of collaboration, and looking at concepts of federated...
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Following Washington’s Lead (No, Not that Washington)
The unified government in Washington, D.C., is a rich source of coverage and running commentary by journalists, policy analysts, cable pundits and late-night TV comedians. Search for the phrase “What...
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Nevada Governor Signs Bill to Create Office of Cyber Defense Coordination
In a flurry of legislative approvals June 2, Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval added his signature to Assembly Bill 471, which formally stands up the Office of Cyber Defense Coordination within the...
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Company Combines Cellphone, GPS Data in Attempt to More Quickly, Easily...
By combining cellphone and GPS navigation data, one startup thinks it can offer road traffic counts to government faster and cheaper. StreetLight Data, one of the companies featured on the Gov Tech...
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ShotSpotter Hits the Stock Market at $11 Per Share
SST Inc., formerly ShotSpotter, officially jumped into the public arena June 7, pricing its Nasdaq-listed stock at $11 and aiming for a gross $30.8 million capital raise. The move, which makes SST the...
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Spalding County, Ga.'s Cloud-Based Maintenance Management System Improves...
Located 40 miles south of downtown Atlanta, Spalding County, Ga., encompasses 200 square miles and is home to nearly 65,000 residents, approximately 23,000 of whom live in Griffin — and county...
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Federal Highway Administration Partners With INRIX to Measure, Monitor and...
Traffic data from INRIX Inc., a Kirkland, Wash.-based global provider of car services and transportation analytics, will soon be helping shape the federal government’s thought process on highway and...
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Socrata Clears FedRAMP, Embraces Non-Open Data
Socrata is not just focusing on open data anymore. The company announced June 7 that it’s achieved FedRAMP authorization, a strict federal security standard for cloud-based technology that many states...
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Privacy vs. Security: Experts Debate Merits of Each in Tech-Rich World
Drawing a distinct line between privacy rights and national security has been an increasingly intense debate during a time when technology and the threat of terror have increased in locked step. Some,...
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