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Mississippi and Utah Double Down on Digital Assistants, Expand Their Skillsets
With the number of so-called “voice-first devices,” including digital assistants like the Amazon Echo and the Google Home, projected to increase nearly four-fold this year according to industry...
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What's Next for the CIO?
Like the leader of an itinerant rock band, Doug Robinson has been traveling the country on what he calls his “Forces of Change” tour. “I don’t have a T-shirt or backup band,” said the executive...
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New Mississippi Law Takes Strategic Look at Cybersecurity, Pushes Past...
When it comes to cybersecurity at the state level, there is no one-size-fits-all model. And while the public and private sectors are keen to spend plenty of time and energy discussing the benefits of...
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Oregon DMV Buys FAST Software to Replace Systems Older than Mark Zuckerberg
The Oregon Department of Motor Vehicle’s core software is so, so old. How old is it? So old it runs on COBOL, one of the earliest program languages to be written using English syntax and tied to the...
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Washington County, Ore., Adds Facial Recognition to Suite of Investigative...
In Washington County, Ore., a new facial recognition tool is giving law enforcement a leg up when it comes to identifying criminals in their jurisdiction. For the last six month or so, the Washington...
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Seven Cyberactions for States after Recent Global Hacking Incidents
Another week, and another round of major hacking stories that grabbed global headlines. A quick cybernews roundup from Friday revealed the dramatic rise in scope that cybersecurity issues have taken...
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Hawaii Plans Prize Money, Tool Enhancements to Month-Long Annual Hackathon
As Hawaii prepares for its annual month-long hackathon, organizers have added a number of enhancements to the competition, most of which seek to make it a better experience for developers and...
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Las Vegas to Pilot WayCare's Accident Prediction Artificial Intelligence...
WayCare, the startup that wants to use artificial intelligence (AI) to predict traffic accidents and congestion, has scored its first U.S. pilot project with the city of Las Vegas. The six-month paid...
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Counties Have a Lot More Cloud Migrating to Do
As huge as today’s cloud business is, there is still a ton of work to do in moving local government’s systems to the cloud. That’s the overall conclusion from early results of the 2017 Digital...
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Connecticut's New Cybersecurity Strategy Takes Holistic Approach
In other parts of the world, Ukraine for example, there is little to no doubt that cyber is a devastating weapon in the arsenal of governments and hackers; stateside, however, the idea seems to just...
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As CIOs Grapple with Shadow IT, a New Attitude Emerges
In recent years, especially as cloud has blossomed up over the tech landscape, IT professionals have started to talk realistically about the threat that is shadow IT. The name alone conjures images of...
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Ohio Qualifies 50 Firms for 'Exploratory' Data Analytics Projects
Six months after releasing a request for proposals (RFP) aimed at changing the way the state procures IT, officials in Ohio told Government Technology that from a pool of 82 proposals encompassing 129...
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Seattle Re-Ups Privacy Commitment with Appointment of City Program Expert
The city of Seattle has named Ginger Armbruster to lead its data management and privacy efforts as its chief privacy officer (CPO). Seattle’s Privacy Principles were established in 2015 as part of an...
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San Leandro, Calif., Chief Innovation Officer Deborah Acosta on Creating a...
You could call Deborah Acosta a pioneering chief innovation officer. She assumed the role in the Bay Area city of San Leandro in early 2013 when the title was something of a revelation in government....
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Nextdoor and NOAA Partner to Better Prepare Americans for Severe Weather
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has recognized the neighborhood social networking app Nextdoor as a member of its Weather-Ready Nation Ambassador program — a program that...
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How States Are Legislating Autonomous Vehicles (Interactive Map)
Though still a far-off fantasy in the minds of many, 19 states have passed legislation relating to autonomous vehicles — many starting small by defining terms like "automated driving system," "dynamic...
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Los Angeles Creates a Workforce that Represents the City
Gender equity in IT has been heading in the wrong direction. Despite all the discussion of increasing the numbers of women in tech, the percentage of women in computing occupations declined over the...
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Dropcountr Raises $600k Seed Round, Launches Spanish Version of Product
Dropcountr, a startup offering water tracking and reducing software to utilities, has raised $600,000 in venture capital funding and launched a Spanish-language version. The new money is the first...
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50 Cities and Counties Participate in Net Neutrality Day of Action
In a letter penned to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai, mayors and technology officials from 50 cities and counties across the country advocated against removing net...
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5 Must-Reads for CIOs (and the Rest of Us)
A CIO I once interviewed, when asked the “what do you know now that you wish you knew then” question, relayed that a critically important component of his workday is the early morning hours when he...
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