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In Singapore’s IT department, innovation comes not only from in-house technical expertise, but through pushing those skills out to the rest of the enterprise and supporting innovation nationally. -
Ranchbot’s sensors use satellite technology to monitor tank levels, trends and operation, enabling customers to check water data on their phones or computers in real time.
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A new partnership is endowing state transportation departments in Ohio and Pennsylvania with multiple data points through which to better understand traffic on their roadways and corridors.
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The Sunlight Foundation’s project is called Roadmap to Informed Communities, and it’s essentially a procedural framework aimed at helping cities create open data programs that incorporate constituent feedback.
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Plus, Kansas City formalizes commitment to data with departmental name change; Indiana works with Google to expand digital skills training; 18F opens up about what it’s like to work there; and more.
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Nassau and Suffolk counties ranked significantly higher than the national average when it came to the number of households subscribing to Internet services, according to the American Community Survey.
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FLUency is a thermometer connected to an app that allows hospitals and school nurses to share and track anonymous student information like temperatures and symptoms such as runny noses, sore throats, rashes and more.
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ISU Gaurdian is a safety app that allows users to send real-time location updates to a group of friends or family and alert them of any danger, and users can also anonymously report crimes on campus.
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A new report from the journal Health Affairs finds the number of telemedicine visits in the state of Minnesota among both urban and rural residents increased sevenfold from 2010 to 2015.
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The potential for IoT to improve residents’ lives is significant, but only if cities have adequate digital infrastructure.
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The security measure is being piloted in three Michigan cities as a way to detect irregularities that could influence the outcome of elections, such as cyberattacks, machine and human errors.
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A look back at our most popular stories of the year, and a glimpse of what the next chapter holds.
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Cities of Service’s second annual Engaged Cities Award seeks local government leaders actively working to include their citizens in finding solutions to community problems.
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During a Federal Trade Commission oversight hearing earlier this week, members made the case to the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce for more authority over consumer data security and privacy.
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In looking over GT coverage in 2018, a number of major themes emerged — like microtransit and the rise of ransomware — that highlight where government’s attention was and what will be on priority lists in 2019.
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OpenGov was originally going to be part of the deal that proposes to merge six companies into one publicly traded entity. But the company behind the merger cut OpenGov out, and now the matter is going to court.
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From security breaches and ransomware to predictive policing and analytics, these are the news stories GT readers found the most compelling, and they offer a look back at what drove good government work in 2018.
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The Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Inspector General is publishing a toolkit for states that includes a step-by-step guide and code for finding people at risk of overdosing on opioid painkillers.
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As artificial intelligence gains ground, countries are setting national strategies to promote the technology’s adoption. Local governments may not have those same resources, but they can make AI more accessible.
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The experiment, which used AI to identify hot spots that police and transportation officials then responded to, was limited to one section of highway. And there are other mitigating factors — like hockey, for one.
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The Internet of Things has the power to transform how we work and live. But without the right leadership, new investments and better strategies, government risks losing out on this opportunity.
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