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Florida
Delray Beach Wins Fourth Place in Digital Cities Awards
This year, four Florida cities, including Delray Beach, were recognized for their innovative efforts and technology projects impacting residents communitywide.
November 16, 2023
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News Staff
Infrastructure
Bay Area Transportation Officials Weigh Freeway Tolling Plan
The Metropolitan Transportation Commission in the Bay Area is holding public meetings for community feedback on a plan to add tolling to the region’s most-crowded freeways to generate new funding for transit and other projects.
November 16, 2023
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Skip Descant
Question of the Day
Is Apple going to end the ‘green bubble dread’?
Answer: Yes!
November 16, 2023
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News Staff
K-12 Education
U.S. Education Official Warns Schools: Do Not 'Sit Out' AI
The U.S. Education Department's assistant secretary for planning, evaluation, and policy development this week said students must learn about AI, it needs privacy safeguards, and teachers need to be the key decisionmakers.
November 16, 2023
Higher Education
Texas State University Plans $140M STEM Building
Part of a major building project at the rapidly growing university will be a facility of classrooms, offices, research and teaching labs for science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
November 16, 2023
Higher Education
UMass Amherst Gets $2.5M Grant to Diversify STEM
The University of Massachusetts Amherst will create an interdisciplinary team to conduct equity-based reviews of its policies and procedures, and devise plans to counter racial disparities in STEM programs.
November 16, 2023
Emergency Management
Why Killer Robert Card Was Allowed to Keep His Guns
The Bangor Daily News discussed New York, Maine and federal law with lawyers who said that if statutes were written in slightly different ways or if institutions had opted to take more steps, it is possible that police could have confiscated Card's personal guns.
November 16, 2023
Cybersecurity
Wisconsin’s Volunteer Cyber Team Explodes in Membership
The volunteer group can assemble a response team seven minutes after a request for help — usually from a small city, county or school district. The number of participants has grown alongside the number of attacks.
November 15, 2023
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Nikki Davidson
K-12 Education
Iowa Offers Schools Free EDR, 24-Hour Monitoring Services
The state Department of Management Division of Information Technology will provide K-12 schools with 16 months of endpoint detection and response services, including 24-hour monitoring and incident response.
November 15, 2023
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News Staff
Broadband & Network
Southeast Kentucky to See $30M Broadband Push
U.S. Congressman Hal Rogers announced a $30.7 million grant to expand broadband services across the most rural parts of the state. Rogers said the infrastructure is a necessary part of building Kentucky’s answer to Silicon Valley.
November 15, 2023
Analytics
Five States Recognized for Evidence-Based Investments
At a virtual event co-hosted by the National Governors Association and Results for America, the 2023 Invest in What Works State Standard of Excellence was released, highlighting best practices in state data use.
November 15, 2023
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News Staff
Infrastructure
First Electric Garbage Truck Joins Portland, Ore., Fleet
The newly procured Peterbilt 520 EV began making test runs this week on the streets of Northeast Portland. Proponents have hailed the truck’s arrival as a milestone in Oregon’s clean energy transition.
November 15, 2023
Question of the Day
Is AI better at predicting the weather than a supercomputer?
Answer: Yes.
November 15, 2023
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News Staff
GovTech Biz
Police Tech Firm Utility Gains Majority Investment from GSV
Greater Sum Ventures, whose history includes the gov tech company now called Catalis, aims to provide "end-to-end" tools for public safety professionals. The field is already crowded with Axon, Motorola and others.
November 15, 2023
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Thad Rueter
Cloud & Computing
North Carolina AccessDEQ Hub Streamlines Permitting Process
The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality recently integrated an online application feature into its comprehensive digital hub, consolidating records, data, mapping tools and permitting into one location.
November 15, 2023
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Ashley Silver
Emerging Tech
St. Louis Cathedral Uses Drones for Building Inspections
A drone company is wrapping up a contract to inspect all the churches in the Episcopal Diocese of Missouri, which has so far seen a crew of operators look at 46 churches over the past three years.
November 15, 2023
Artificial Intelligence
Tech Leaders Release AI Safety Principles With Federal Backing
The guidelines, announced by leading venture capitalists with the backing of U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo, lay out how software developers should use the tech responsibly, in concert with moneyed backers.
November 15, 2023
Justice & Public Safety
San Diego OKs $12M Police Surveillance Network
After months of deliberation and some controversy, San Diego's City Council on Tuesday gave its final approval to a police surveillance network that will cost $12 million over the next five years.
November 15, 2023
K-12 Education
Georgia School District Goes Offline After Suspicious Activity
Henry County Schools took its Internet offline last week after detecting suspicious network activity. Except for online classes, district operations are continuing while county, state and federal officials investigate.
November 15, 2023
K-12 Education
Iowa Educators Value AI as Teaching Assistant, Writing Coach
Iowa teachers are using artificial intelligence to draft emails, write individual educational plans and create rubrics, and they recommend students use it to check their work and come up with extra practice problems.
November 15, 2023
K-12 Education
Pipedreamers App Brings College-Level Compsci to High Schools
A startup app called Pipedreamers offers high schoolers an after-school, dual-credit Introduction to Computing course led by Standford professors that covers coding, databases, website design and using AI tools.
November 15, 2023
Emergency Management
School Officials, Police React to Guns Found on Campus
Puyallup School District spokesperson Sarah Gillispie told The News Tribune Nov. 9 that "there was no intent to harm or cause violence" in any of the four cases.
November 15, 2023
Peter K. Anderson
Pete’s local government work began in Columbus OH, where he was the city’s first CIO and established a local CIO networking group. As CIO for the City of Fort Worth he supervised the implementation of an ERP system which replaced over 50 separate systems. Pete’s local government career also included over ten years in Public Transit CIO positions for the Columbus and Cleveland transit agencies. His most extensive volunteer commitment was serving on a large food bank board for seven years (including as President).
February 19, 2021
Justice & Public Safety
AI-Powered Task Forces Tackle Online Child Exploitation
AI is emerging as a critical tool to sort through record-breaking amounts of digital evidence in the fight against the online exploitation of children and teens.
November 14, 2023
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Nikki Davidson
Artificial Intelligence
Could AI Help Solve the Bay Area’s Housing Crisis?
In a housing-starved market like the Bay Area, some property developers are turning to the promise of AI, hoping to cut down on design and building time and save money in the process.
November 14, 2023
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