The Bloomberg-funded group has offered its benchmarking certification program in the United States for years, and now it’s opening it up to local governments throughout the Western Hemisphere.
The online university will use a grant from the tech industry consortium Reboot Representation Tech Coalition to support more Black, Latina and Indigenous women to complete IT degree programs.
The public safety tech major has now integrated its body-worn and in-car cameras with its situational awareness platform, CommandCentral Aware — part of a larger trend of police gaining more and more access to video.
The two tech providers will offer dispatchers and first responders precise geolocation data for buildings three stories and taller. The move reflects the growing precision of data in the public safety space.
Lemonade, a digital insurance firm, will offer drivers of connected vehicles an app that can confirm crashes and send data to emergency responders via RapidSOS. The move comes as connected vehicles gain popularity.
Following the recent retirement of Heath Douglas who served as the city of Round Rock’s CIO for over two decades, Ramsey Saad has been tapped to lead the city’s Information Technology Department.
