To lure more young people into government technology work, Piccione changed experience requirements on all vacant IT positions, pointing them toward early career applicants.
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Carladenise Edwards, the chief administrative officer for Miami-Dade County, Fla., has taken on the role of interim director of the county’s technology agency, a position held by Margaret Brisbane since 2021.
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Resilient regions and organizations require well thought out disaster plans addressing recovery and mitigation. In creating them, state officials said, collaboration with other governments and communities is essential.
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The government data analytics provider has released an offering that seeks to collect a wide variety of public- and private-sector data. The idea is to create an AI model that helps officials gain deeper community insights.
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Virginia is innovating and building momentum for technology in 2025, from moving to cloud to implementing AI, state CIO Bob Osmond said — aiming to carry that energy into the next gubernatorial administration.
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Profiles of this year's winners.
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Separated from live systems and sensitive public data, sandboxes let states and cities test drive artificial intelligence use cases without impacting services.
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The evolution of artificial intelligence, which requires massive amounts of energy to function, is forcing government, utilities and tech suppliers to face the question of whether power grids can keep up.
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A technology specialist in Pennsylvania created a computer game for first- and second-grade students that asks them to be digital detectives, challenging them to spot the real story or fact among fake ones.
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A remote Air Force base in Alaska has been selected to be the first U.S. military installation with a nuclear microreactor under a Defense Department pilot project.
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Tulsa County commissioners heeded a call from their constituents Monday and postponed for a week a vote on whether to rezone approximately 400 acres north of Tulsa for a planned data center.
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The settlement was a victory for students and advocates who have made complaints nationwide over colleges lending their names to online courses that have few ties to campus faculty or typical university oversight.
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The new website includes a policy FAQ, toolkit and examples that school districts can use to design their own policies to restrict personal devices from being used on school grounds during the school day.
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Leaders of the NIPSCO utility company were grilled in Indianapolis Tuesday over a proposal to create a new lightly regulated utility called GenCo to fund new data center infrastructure.
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Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle’s office has published the first of what is expected to be several reports detailing the technology delays and assigning blame for where the fault lies.
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With information-generating technologies advancing at unprecedented speed, the onus is on teachers as well as students to apply their human capacities to understand context and intent, and discern fact from fabrication.
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The data tool and interface, which was built in-house to flag crime and misuse, has saved the state millions and ensures benefits go to those in need. Created with federal funding, it recently earned a governor’s award.
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As demographics change, bilingual public-sector workers can’t always keep up with all the “new” languages spoken by constituents. A Wordly report and client offer an inside view of the changes.
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