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West Virginia CISO Danielle Cox has embedded RFID chips in her fingernails. She finds ease-of-use advantages and minimal downsides. Here’s her story, including why and how it’s done. 

Behzad Zamanian is the chief information officer for the City of Huntington Beach. He has over 28 years of experience serving the public sector, Fortune 500 firms and higher education institutions. Zamanian has completed his Certified Government CIO program from Rutgers University, He has a B.S. in Computer Information Systems from the California State polytechnic University, and has completed MBA course work from the University of California.

Using federal funds intended to help schools reopen safely after COVID-19, Utah has put energy-efficient air purifiers in 60 percent of its schools and 55 percent of its state-certified day care centers since last fall.

The New York Joint Security Operations Center supports collaboration and information sharing, while an endpoint detection and response shared service provides local government with 24/7 monitoring and threat alerts.

State lawmakers argue that the state Department of Motor Vehicles has so badly mishandled the driverless car industry that it can't be trusted to oversee big rigs barreling down the highways autonomously.

The $20 million contract meant to connect every Cleveland resident to high-speed Internet was put on hold this week when concerns were raised about whether the nonprofit DigitalC has the capabilities to see the work through.

For those living in hotter areas of the city and where there are fewer shade trees and for those with little money to pay for air conditioning, the condition will only worsen with climate change.

Housing and other development built in concert with transit stops are solving the persistent last-mile gaps in U.S. transportation planning. In Miami, a new development could serve as a model for other cities.

Answer: Because Meta doesn’t want to pay for them.

Progress continues for the state of Illinois’ multiple-year digital transformation undertaking, which aims to simplify processes and positively impact state employees across the state’s agencies.

New members of the Utah Board of Higher Education will include executives from biotech, financial tech and tech workforce development sectors, as well as board members of several technical institutions.

A school district in Pennsylvania has added three electric-powered vehicles to its bus fleet to gather information about whether they're a viable alternative to vehicles that use fossil fuels.

Artificial intelligence looks like a political campaign manager’s dream because it could tune its persuasion efforts to millions of people individually — but it could be a nightmare for democracy.

Because the town was not officially in a flood zone, few had flood insurance. Because the town was poor, even fewer had the capital to rebuild. And because so many were undocumented, few were eligible for much money from FEMA.

The iMerge Community Center in Alton is working with the K-12 computer science curriculum provider Mastery Coding on two-week summer camps that focus on coding for game development.

What the Kirkland verdict means for emergency preparedness.

Some thoughts on how to integrate equity into your planning and actions.

Will it turn out to be “normal?”

Chief Information Officer Bill Zielinski told The Dallas Morning News that the city estimates being “more than 90% complete” in restoring IT systems and services since the cyber attack.

The Dallas metro area has quietly become the new frontier for the development of autonomous trucking, with several companies from around the world setting up operations there.

A bipartisan California bill that would make big tech pay publishers for using news that drives profits passed the state Assembly, despite a threat from Facebook parent Meta that it would remove news from its platforms.

The Hillsborough County Supervisor of Elections Office announced that the private information of 58,000 voters was exposed when an unauthorized user appeared to have accessed and copied files containing personal identification information.

A report from CompTIA Spark found that parents are broadly optimistic about the direction of technology, but 80 percent of them believe students need more instruction focused on digital literacy and technology skills.

Lt. Gov. Suzanne Crouch, the Indiana Broadband Office and the Office of Community and Rural Affairs have announced that Ohio and Dearborn counties, the town of Moores Hill, the town of Dillsboro and the city of Rising Sun are the newest Broadband Ready Communities.

Matt Stempeck, technologist in residence at Cornell University and curator of the Civic Tech Field Guide, joins ICYMI to discuss this comprehensive collection of tech projects for the public interest and democracy.