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Online Listing Service Maps Available Broadband Sites

April 30, 2013 - New exchange brings together site owners and broadband providers.

Cool Your Servers -- in Vats of Oil?

April 29, 2013 - Even just a 5 percent savings on cooling overhead could make cooling servers in mineral oil an attractive investment in the public sector.

Klout and Kred Scores: Critical or Meaningless?

April 29, 2013 - Metrics providers offer social media influence scores; here’s what you need to know about them.

Avoiding Data Center Mishaps

April 29, 2013 - These 10 common mistakes could prove costly if made in the data center.

7 Ideas for the Future of Local Government

April 29, 2013 - Could these key ideas be cornerstones of Gov2020?

Editing Tool Cleaning Up Legalese in Seattle

April 29, 2013 - Washington State offices have a new “easy button” when it comes to writing and editing documents.

Boston Bombings Highlight Need for Public Safety Broadband Network

April 29, 2013 - The massive investigation demonstrated how first responders need to be able to securely share high volumes of data with partners in other law enforcement agencies. Relying on commercial carriers to do so may not be practical.

The Legacy Play

$util.date("MMMM d, yyyy", $content.startDate) - Find out how several public sector leaders have courageously come to terms with the past, boldly transformed their organizations in the present and paved the way for innovation in the future – performing the highest form of service they can render as a public servant: establishing their legacies.

Modernization as a Service: Acquiring IT through Innovative Procurement

$util.date("MMMM d, yyyy", $content.startDate) - To capitalize on innovative technologies and spend “smarter,” state and local agencies are looking to the cloud, consolidation and virtualization. As a way to accomplish this, they are shifting some IT expenditures to monthly or recurring services rather than treating them as fixed hardware costs. While IT funding continues to become elusive, extended payment plans enable agencies to acquire IT goods and services with less upfront investment and negotiable payment terms, often leveraging operational expenditure (opex) funds to realize a rapid and demonstrable return on investment.

Uncovering Costs in Towing and Impound Services

$util.date("MMMM d, yyyy", $content.startDate) - This paper describes how NOBEL Systems’ Auto Impound Management® (AIM®) system helps governments turn an often overlooked and ineffective service into an easily managed, revenue-generating operation that improves coordination, communications, logistics, commerce and administrative needs.

Collaborative Justice: Transforming Criminal Justice Services Through Unified Collaboration

$util.date("MMMM d, yyyy", $content.startDate) - This issue brief examines video collaboration in every stage of the human justice process, demonstrating how this technology can not only make services more efficient and affordable, but also more accessible- and therefore more just.

Investing in Talent (Opinion)

April 28, 2013 - Attract good employees with a good work environment.

FutureStructure: The New Framework for Communities (Infographic)

April 26, 2013 - The aim of FutureStructure is to overcome the constraints inherent in haphazard and siloed approaches that communities often take when conceiving, investing in and building their future.

Breath Testing for Pot and Cocaine?

April 26, 2013 - A Stockholm research center claims to have successfully identified marijuana and cocaine use with breath testing.

BlackBerry to Samsung: An Easy Switch for Staunton, Virginia

April 26, 2013 - The city of Staunton, Va., made a user-driven decision to abandon its BlackBerrys.

America’s Broadband Is Not Broken

April 26, 2013 - The argument for a massive reorganization of America’s broadband markets depends on a set of facts that don’t exist.

Two-Way Citizen Engagement in Elk Grove, Calif.

April 26, 2013 - A mobile app gives the city a cost-effective way to tackle service requests and distribute relevant information to residents.

States Expand Lotteries, Online Gambling

April 26, 2013 - All but six states offer lotteries for citizens, and many states are also looking to make money with online games.

Is a See-Through Smartphone on the Horizon?

April 25, 2013 - It just might be, but these other handy items are available for use right now.

Big Data Week 2013 Rages On

April 25, 2013 - From April 22 to 26, more than 25 cities worldwide are coordinating and sharing their knowledge of how data can improve their organizations.