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Work on the new portal began in 2023, with the next phase scheduled for 2026. Nevada joins other states in setting up such portals for a variety of tasks, including accessing services such as unemployment benefits. -
EY, the global accounting and consulting firm, wants to provide “peer learning” and other educational services to public agency tech leaders. They face a potentially turbulent new year, given upcoming elections.
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The money is a bet that more airports and cities will use the company’s computer vision technology to help manage increasingly busy curbside spaces. Automotus traces its roots to two college buddies in Los Angeles.
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New data from technology companies Cloudflare and ZenCity help to illustrate when, how and to what extent interaction with government online has changed since COVID-19 led to widescale shutdowns across American society.
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Shut down in 2018 and revived a year later by the Linux Foundation, the open source mapping platform has a new home with developers under the umbrella of the UCF, which suggests a closer relationship with urban work.
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Six months after CSDC rebranded itself as Calytera, the company has announced another public-facing change with the appointment of Zeynep Young from the venture firm Next Coast Ventures as chief executive officer.
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The Australian company continues to build out its EngagementHQ platform by partnering with adjacent technologies, following similar integrations with Balancing Act, Granicus, Konveio and Auth0.
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David Zolet, who sits on the board of FirstNet and is the former CEO of Logistics Management Institute with experience at several technology companies, will lead an executive team largely appointed last spring.
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Government IT staff and industry researchers weigh in on how digital services are meeting their moment, with office buildings closed, Web traffic spiking and applications for relief programs becoming increasingly urgent.
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Months before it amped up its local government efforts with a new mobile app for public agencies, the community-based social media platform Nextdoor had bought a competitor whose focus was citizen engagement.
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Repurposing analytics it used to produce data on the opioid epidemic, Biobot is offering a pro bono water testing program to contribute data to the health community’s growing understanding of the pandemic.
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A little more than a year after combining half a dozen top SaaS companies in the gov tech space under one banner, GTY is promoting its budgeting software CEOs and weighing new "strategic alternatives."
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Even as giants in the body-worn camera space have absorbed smaller competitors in recent years, the Swedish company owned by Canon is betting new cameras that work with other systems will sell.
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By bringing TeraThink’s application development and data analytics to its federal government subsidiary, CGI continues its strategy of using mergers and acquisitions to build end-to-end solutions.
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On this episode of GovTech360, an overview of the people, projects and possibilities behind the Top 25 Doers, Dreamers and Drivers.
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We asked technology leaders at state and local governments across the country what they're using to enable public servants to work without coming into an office. Here's what nine of them said.
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Vendors, public officials and civil rights advocates have been wary of using facial recognition in police body cameras because of technical limits and potential for abuse, but Wolfcom's CEO sees it as an inevitability.
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The Ontario-based conglomerate Thomson Reuters now has Pondera’s anti-fraud, waste and abuse platform in its suite of business intelligence tools, potentially giving health-care giants greater insight into bad actors.
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In an assessment of the voting app’s internal programming, paid for by Voatz, a security firm validated MIT researchers' concerns, including the possibility that hackers could change votes cast through the app.
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Vital Chain, a Cleveland-based startup that uses blockchain technology to create a secure way of digitizing and cataloguing birth and death certificates, is the second of parent company Ownum’s product launches.
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In 2018, OpenGov accused GTY of stealing information and then cutting it out of a merger deal, and the companies filed competing lawsuits against each other. Now the parties have settled out of court.
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