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After nearly six years of working with the state of North Dakota, Chief Information Officer Shawn Riley has announced his forthcoming departure from the position to shift to a new role in the private sector.

Chief Information Officer Bill Kehoe on where Washington is using data effectively, the platform they’re building to grow analytics capabilities, and why we need to modernize data in addition to legacy services.

The deal reflects the growing tendency in the gov tech space toward integrated platforms, according to Granicus CEO Mark Hynes. Both companies have been expanding recently via other acquisitions.

Answer: 10,000 people, somehow.

A newly released White House fact sheet highlights national cybersecurity efforts and plans, including around cybersecurity labels for consumer IoT, international ransomware-fighting collaborations and more.

With local governments needing cybersecurity support more than ever and federal grant money allocated for security efforts, more states need to take a regional approach to protecting jurisdictions of all sizes.

At Bloomberg CityLab 2022 this week, local leaders from around the globe came together to define the role of digital innovation for cities and how a solution-centered approach to technology can make its impact sustainable.

Core government business processes often run on enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems that are years or even decades old. To make data-based decisions about migration and reduce risk, forward-looking state and local governments are adopting process mining solutions to analyze ERP business systems such as finance and procurement, human capital management, customer relationship management, IT services management and supplier management.

Austin Independent School District is moving forward with an initiative to transition entirely to electric school buses, with plans to have three on the roads next year and half of its fleet electric by 2027.

A shared program between Burrell, Derry Area, Hempfield Area and Kiski Area school districts uses Google for Education and seven teachers to lead remote classes for 53 students learning from home.

On the heels of a major financial upgrade, Illinois CIO Jennifer Ricker talks about what’s at stake as the Department of Innovation and Technology stands up a core HR system for tens of thousands of state employees.

The breathing equipment — called self-contained breathing apparatus, or SCBA — consists of air tanks carried on packs worn by firefighters, with face pieces to prevent breathing super-heated air or smoke filled with toxic chemicals.

The news can only cover so much of what is going on.

The Virginia community college last weekend announced plans to convert two buildings into a learning space to accommodate students in cybersecurity, nursing, IT, general education and dual enrollment programs.

The exercise was the culmination of more than 18 months of planning by both public and private agencies and included more than 511 participants who were evaluated over multiple days during the last week of September.

All resources are headed to Florida.

The California college shut down its network earlier this month after detecting suspicious activity on a Sunday morning. Administrators are working with a third party to determine whether information was compromised.

After helping hundreds of people all across the West Coast get certified as commercial drone operators, an Ashland-based aerospace company is looking for new opportunities in its own backyard.

The Detroit City Council on Tuesday approved a $7 million expansion of ShotSpotter after months of debate over the controversial gun detection system after a five-hour meeting and split vote among counselors.

The NYPD’s department-issued cellphones are getting a new app that will allow cops to quickly access LGBTQ resources for city residents needing help, Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell said Tuesday.

And in a bad way.

The federal government has announced more than $100 million in grants to bring high-speed fiber Internet to many Southwest Alaska villages, part of a massive investment to close the digital divide in rural areas.

The Los Angeles International Airport website was inaccessible Monday morning after a disruption from pro-Russia hacking group Killnet. The group has recently been targeting airport and state government websites.

A five-year grant issued by the Department of Education's Office of Special Education Programs will help Benetech fund its DREAM Center program, making digital materials accessible to students with disabilities.

CISOs are gaining attention outside the IT office and cyber funding isn’t a top challenge — for the first time in survey history. But CISOs still wrestle with talent gaps and need to strengthen local relationships to build whole-of-state approaches.