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Colin Wood

former staff writer

Colin Wood wrote for Government Technology and Emergency Management from 2010 through most of 2016.

The new festival, called South by South Lawn, is intended to serve as a platform for the nation's foremost innovators and creators.
This year’s best government websites shared in common a simple vision of user-centric content, a desire to iterate and collaborate more quickly than in years past, and to watch the market for the latest trends and standards.
Modern technology is generating data that allows criminal justice to add shades of gray to what has long been viewed as a black and white issue.
There are a lot of moving pieces, but the game’s objective is simple: Figure out which potential voters can swing the election, and fill their heads with bright ideas.
The CISO has one of the most difficult jobs in a given organization, because cybersecurity is evolving quickly, and with each new technology or product introduced, 10,000 new potential vulnerabilities arise.
The upgrade will give the state a new foundation for Medicaid, and provide government leaders with information in near-real time that allows for better decision-making.
Replacements for Chief Innovation Officer Ted Smith and Theresa Reno-Weber, the city’s chief of performance and technology, have already been named.
The state's health information exchange is seeking the certification to ensure that clinical information is protected, but not all stakeholders feel it's worth the effort.
A series of new business ideas have been floating around for at least a decade, but the maturation of data science and Internet of Things technologies paired with a popular mobile game has government officials taking augmented reality seriously.
Rob Stradling, director of the Baltimore County, Md., Office of Information Technology, shares what his winning portal has done to beat out the competition.