Transportation departments in Texas and California are exploring artificial intelligence, and the latter may create a chief data and AI officer role. These agencies, an executive said, will face “major workforce transformations.”
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Data privacy remains a primary concern for government agencies adding artificial intelligence into the fidelity monitoring process, but the impact for employees — and the people they serve — can be substantial. -
Government Technology mapped the current landscape of chief data officers at the state level to reveal where data leadership has been established and where it lags. Just more than half of states have a CDO.
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The state has a reputation for high housing costs and bureaucracy in front of developers. But city planners hope a new online tool could help make it easier for residents to build smaller shelters.
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The state Department of Information Technology will onboard a veteran private-sector executive with deep experience in artificial intelligence, analytics and large-scale collaboration. He'll start later this month.
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Bigger Fish: Major gov tech players are absorbing the little ones, plus, the GovTech 100 turns 10.
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The technology market serving state and local government has changed a lot since we first published the GovTech 100 in 2015. Here’s what we’ve learned. -
We spoke to technology leaders to understand whether they prefer to partner with small or large tech providers to support their IT work.
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Digital navigators across the country show up for their communities by teaching the technical skills people need in an increasingly digital world.
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The Mineral County Treasurer’s Office and the state are readying a new vehicle services system, to refresh vehicle titling and registration. Services will be fully restored Monday morning, per the state website.
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At Central New Mexico Community College, the only program of its kind in the state is training solar panel installers at a time when clean energy jobs are growing at more than twice the rate of overall U.S. employment.
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Fall Mountain Regional School District has notified 623 vendors that some of their identifying information was in a spreadsheet accessed by unauthorized parties through a phishing scheme in November 2024.
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Minnesota lawmakers are once again debating whether the state should lift a three-decade ban on new nuclear power plants in the state as a way to work toward a clean energy future.
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Plus, Vermont has started work on its Digital Empowerment Plan; a new bill aims to prevent FCC from censoring broadcasters; Sonoma County, Calif., has approved offering some residents free Internet; and more.
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WeWillWrite, an ed-tech tool from Norway that launched in the U.S. last week, uses fast-paced, anonymous classroom writing competitions, along with AI imagery and analysis, to teach students the features of good writing.
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The system issues began roughly three weeks ago and are believed to be related to online traffic. Officials will work weekends to implement possible solutions, and are reviewing options for a larger upgrade.
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New leadership often means new regulations for government, which can create uncertainty for cybersecurity teams that manage and protect vast networks of devices. Automation is one way to streamline some of that work.
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