The major initiative, a modernization of the state’s financial management system known as One Washington, is years in the making and projected to launch in 2027. The work has engaged more than 40 state agencies.
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Hassan Janjua will join the city in February as its inaugural CIO, following an “organizational realignment.” Its technology department was previously helmed by the director of IT. -
Government security leaders are struggling. Cyber investments are lagging. Resources are being cut. The problem is getting worse. Let’s explore solutions.
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The CEO of CHAMP Titles — which recently raised $55 million — talks about where the industry is headed. His optimism about upcoming significant growth is matched by another executive from this field.
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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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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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The state’s Department of Natural Resources has long conducted aerial surveys of its wildlife, and that count might be made more accurate soon through the use of new technologies.
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Even with nearly 10,000 active Starlink satellites in orbit and the OneWeb constellation of 650 satellites, solid Internet coverage is not a given across vast swaths of the planet.
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The local government’s Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to appropriate the funds for a “comprehensive technology infrastructure remediation project.” It comes in response to a critical IT outage last summer.
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Spending critical high school years online left many students unprepared for college, both academically and socially. Those setbacks have been compounded by lowered grading standards and emerging technologies like AI.
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The focus for South Dakota’s most populous city is improving the user experience for digital government operations. Officials are starting with a closer look at the experience staffers have on the city systems they use.
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A shuttered power plant east of Pittsburgh is slated to be rebuilt to generate electricity for artificial intelligence. The state Senate majority leader called the move “historic,” but observers raised concerns about strain on the grid.
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The cybersecurity incident, which dates to July, stemmed to an agency that “provides debt collection services to city government,” a city spokesperson said in a news release, noting there’s “no indication that anything other than debt collection services data was affected.”
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Custom GPTs, AI podcasts and AI agents have helped biologist and lecturer Tina Austin work across disciplines and universities, and she has found they are each useful in different situations.
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Out of 310 school leaders surveyed by Education Week Research Center in January and February of 2025, 74 percent said they expect the information they collect about vendors' cybersecurity protections will increase.
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K-12 cybersecurity experts are concerned that funding cuts and policy changes by the Trump administration will kneecap information-sharing networks that schools rely on to stay ahead of cyber criminals and data leaks.
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