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Oklahoma CIO Raises Concerns About Duplicative Cybersecurity Efforts...
"Voluminous," "disjointed" and "complex" were just a few of the words Oklahoma CIO James “Bo” Reese used to describe the federal cybersecurity regulations facing states in written testimony before a...
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Gaps with the FirstNet Opt-Out Process Remain (Op-Ed)
Earlier this week, the clock began ticking for each governor in the U.S. to make a series of decisions with important consequences for the nation’s public safety. On June 19, each governor received a...
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What’s New In Civic Tech: Code for America's Jennifer Pahlka Attends Trump’s...
Code for America Founder and Executive Director Jennifer Pahlka — who worked as U.S. deputy chief technology officer under President Barack Obama — attended a tech meeting at the White House on June...
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How Should IT Strategies Evolve to Capitalize on the Cloud’s Potential Today?
Public cloud growth may crest worldwide this year as modern cloud computing enters its second decade, but state, county and local agencies are likely to continue their migrations from private to...
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Employee 'Phishing' Expeditions Among States' Tools for Cybersecurity...
Phishing and spear-phishing — two simplistic examples of cyberattacks well-known in the public sector — may remain popular indefinitely, but state cybersecurity personnel are battling the bad actors...
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How 3 Jurisdictions Are Using Tech to Bolster the Health of Trees in Their...
I’m beautiful / I’m nasty / and I’m coming to kill your ash tree. So goes the infectious refrain of a hip-hop YouTube video that was created by a collaboration between the Denver Botanic Gardens, a...
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Will California’s New Travel Ban to Named States Affect Government...
Back in January 2017, a new law went into effect in California that banned state government employees and officials from using tax dollars to travel to states with laws it deemed discriminatory in...
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Cloud Players: Who’s Who in the Government Market
A quick Internet search will reveal who the biggest cloud providers in the marketplace are. One could even find out which companies sell the most to the federal government. When it comes to the...
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Government's Millennial Workforce Problem
Government tech shops have long grappled with an aging workforce and how to recruit more young people to work in their offices. In recent years, the search for younger talent has taken on something of...
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Michael Bloomberg Announces 3-Year, $200 Million American Cities Initiative
Michael Bloomberg, founder of Bloomberg Philanthropies and former mayor of New York City, has announced the American Cities Initiative, a $200-million investment to be made over the next three years...
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Smart Cities Connect Conference Will Move from Austin, Texas, to Kansas...
After two years in Austin where it continues through Wednesday, June 28, the Smart Cities Connect Conference and Expo and the co-located but separate U.S. Ignite Application Summit nonprofit will both...
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Los Angeles County Begins Outfitting Buses with Free Wi-Fi
If Los Angeles County is any indication, the latest trend in municipal transit seems to be adding Wi-Fi access to Metro buses. According to The Source, one of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan...
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IT Applicants Increased Tenfold During Hawaii's Pilot Partnership With...
It’s pretty widely accepted by this point that state and local CIOs are facing an uphill battle when it comes to pulling new talent into their respective agencies. Either they can’t compete with the...
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5 New Cities Become Smart Gigabit Communities
AUSTIN, Texas — At the Smart Cities Connect Conference held June 25-28 at the Austin Convention Center, US Ignite and the National Science Foundation announced five new cities that have joined the...
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3 Ways the National Science Foundation Supports Gov Tech
AUSTIN, Texas — This week, hundreds of government agencies, companies, nonprofits and academic institutions have assembled for the 5th annual Smart Cities Connect Conference, held June 25-28 at the...
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Smart City 2.0: Shifting the Focus from Infrastructure to People
AUSTIN, Texas — 19,519. That is the number of cities that exist in the United States. Over the past decade, each one of those cities experienced major shifts brought on by changes in technology,...
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New York City Doubles Down on Tech-Focused Jobs, Plans Launch of Virtual and...
A visionary is often someone who sees what others cannot, someone who imagines a possibility and pursues it. In New York City, the ability to see beyond reality and into a virtual reality is something...
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Congress Unveils 14 Proposed Pieces of Self-Driving Vehicle Legislation
Less than five years ago, autonomous vehicle (AV) technology was merely a concept — a look at what the future may hold. But autonomous vehicles entering the public sphere has quickly become a question...
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Affront to Florida's Agency for State Technology Officially Dies by...
In early 2017, Florida’s House Government Operations and Technology Appropriations subcommittee launched a legislative assault on the autonomy of the state’s centralized IT shop, the Agency for State...
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Tech Showcase Conveys that Sacramento, Calif., Is Not All Talk When It Comes...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Aligned outside the new Golden 1 Center, a series of autonomous vehicles (AVs) were on display the afternoon of June 27 to showcase the technology and how it may impact...
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