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Cybersecurity experts say AI and automation are changing how much impact manipulated data can have on government technology systems. -
Martha Norrick left her job earlier this year and has since joined the incoming mayor’s transition team on technology. She was an advocate of open data and data literacy.
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The state is in procurement on a new GoHawaii app, intended to integrate agricultural declarations and tourism questions. Hawaii recently marked the 75th anniversary of its in-flight visitor survey.
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A Charlotte nonprofit is working on creating a Web tool that will map all food sources in a multicounty region, hoping to create a resource for locating local markets, community gardens, farms and more.
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Succeeding Kevin Harrison as chief data officer for the state of Illinois, Tammy Roust brings experience with team management, data analysis, cybersecurity policy, risk analysis, economics and software engineering.
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The state Department of Public Safety and RTI International have received a grant to test out the Pokket app and measure its effects on people re-entering society from five incarceration institutions.
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Speaking at the NASCIO conference last month, Wisconsin CIO David Cagigal talked about the data analytics work the state will undertake when it gets past its current state of being “data rich and information poor.”
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Tech that can flag potentially bad police officers is scheduled to go live in Oakland this week as one of the key tasks ordered by a federal judge overseeing reforms in a nearly two-decade-old police corruption case.
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Huron County, Mich., Commissioners unanimously voted to sign an agreement with the Michigan Statewide Authoritative Imagery and LiDAR program for a data exchange with the Michigan Department of Technology and Budget.
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Some West Michigan residents — while pleased a new industry has breathed life into a once-vacant building — say the center has yet to live up to the high hopes it was greeted with when it announced it was coming.
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Hiring a chief data officer last year helped kick off some transformational data work in the commonwealth of Kentucky, according to Chief Information Officer Chuck Grindle. Here, he outlines their progress so far.
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As an increasing number of cities nationwide work to foster equitable outcomes for residents, Albuquerque has created a new case study for how data can be used in various ways to lift populations up.
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While St. Paul’s police chief recently sought state funding to implement gunshot-location technology, Mayor Melvin Carter told him he hasn’t found conclusive evidence that it’s an effective way to reduce gun violence.
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Mayor Kevin Faulconer appointed Andrell Bower as the city's new chief data officer, a position that has remained vacant since July. Bower is charged with evaluating new tech to streamline government processes.
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Experts in the local government privacy space say they are paying close attention to how the Census will share data about the population while making it so individuals can’t be identified.
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The new position, which will operate out of Mayor Bill de Blasio's office, will lead the development of guidelines and best practices surrounding the use of algorithm-based tools by city agencies.
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Dual participation in public assistance programs, which include Medicaid and SNAP, has been a long-standing and costly problem that can now often be fixed by deploying today’s new technology.
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Plus, the Digital Equity Lab at the New School releases a new guide to help communities prep for the first high-tech Census; the Knight Foundation puts out a call for public data innovation work; and more.
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The Knight Foundation is looking for projects that will take the unprecedented amount of data now available and translate it in a way that will strengthen community engagement and engage community challenges.
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Pushback against San Diego's smart street lights program — which puts cameras on street lights and collects data — continued at a forum downtown where speakers called it a data goldmine for the private sector.
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A partnership between the telecommunications company and technology company NEC is looking at whether the fiber-optic networks coursing through cities can be used to glean real-world intelligence.
