The microgrant initiative aims to help support technology adoption among small businesses. The city joins other local and state governments in fostering the adoption of AI and other technologies.
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The impending departures on the same day in March, of Alameda County’s CIO and assistant CIO, will close a chapter in the local government’s technology history. Both have been in place since 2012. -
Minnesota’s case is one of several breaches of late involving legitimate access, a recurring issue in provider-heavy government health and human services systems.
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State CIO Kristin Darby describes the search for an agentic, auditable enterprise resource planning system, and why 2026 marks a shift from incremental upgrades to exponential change across state technology.
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The city’s tourist-heavy Oceanfront neighborhood is using a digital parking solution from eleven-x to improve parking management and grow revenue in its “resort area.” Area residents will get parking credits.
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People are less worried about AI taking humans’ jobs than they once were, but introducing bots to the public-sector workplace has brought new questions around integration, ethics and management. -
As governments at all levels continue to embrace new developments in artificial intelligence, cities are using automation for everything from reducing first responder paperwork to streamlined permitting.
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Agencies report that critical IT positions remain hard to fill, but finding the right people takes more than job postings. States are expanding intern and apprentice programs to train and retain talent.
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Faced with falling enrollment and a growing budget deficit, United Independent School District is expanding its early college program and preparing to offer a virtual high school program, open to any student in Texas.
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The American Medical Association awarded $12 million across 11 institutions to implement artificial intelligence-powered feedback for students on tasks like clinical reasoning and interactions with patients.
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A recent promotion through the state-funded CalKIDS initiative highlights how the state of California is using education savings accounts to address technology access for students.
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Plus, federal legislation supporting rural Internet access gets introduced, Utah’s legislature will consider a law establishing digital literacy education, Texas is investing millions in broadband expansion, and more.
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The state has closed all offices Monday as network issues have interrupted its ability to do business. They result from a security incident, and technical teams are working to restore operations.
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The inaugural NextTech Kern conference at Cal State Bakersfield in October, intended to be a community event, will explore how artificial intelligence is set to affect education, businesses and digital safety.
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After detecting an unauthorized party trying to hack its network, a private Catholic university in Texas has been without a website and servers connected to various operations for more than a week.
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Since the announcement that Google is considering building a data center in Botetourt County, questions have swirled about how a project of that scale could impact the region’s utilities — especially water.
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Lidar, which measures how long it takes for pulses of laser light to bounce off surfaces and return, has been used in topographic mapping for decades, and now it has a very timely function.
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Some new terms are becoming popular in tech and cybersecurity careers, along with some unsettling workplace trends around burnout and fear of layoffs as AI gains ground in both the public and private sectors.
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