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Melissa Scott was a veteran of Philadelphia IT before taking the lead as CIO in 2024. Her experience gave her insight into how the city should approach new technologies to best support staff and residents.
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A new book from Harvard Business Review provides practical advice to policymakers for those times when residents don’t do what you thought they would. -
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic continues to disrupt schools, doing so by making it far more difficult for teachers and other educators to effectively assess students’ academic progress in traditional ways.
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The St. Cloud, Minn., City Council unanimously approved a 2021 budget on Monday that includes new funding for body cameras, as well as for related data storage capacity needed to deploy the tech.
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Among the recommendations contained in a 295-page Transit Development Plan given to the Eau Claire City Council is the idea of using a smartphone app and smaller vehicles to replace a bus serving the north side.
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Commissioners in Winter Park, Fla., which is located in the Orlando area, heard a pitch this week that would upgrade AT&T’s cellphone network in the city to 5G and increase connectivity speeds.
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IndyGo announces plans to improve the city's busiest bus stops in downtown bus stops. The upgrades will include ticketing machines, real-time information screens, and security cameras.
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Kalispell Regional Healthcare said the breach stemmed from a phishing scheme in which hackers used emails to bait employees into providing their login credentials. Personal records were compromised in the incident.
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Only 30 percent of Colquitt County has Internet, according to County Clerk Melissa Lawson. That makes the Broadband Ready certification the county received recently an impressive step toward connectivity.
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Chula Vista Police have allowed other agencies — including Immigration and Customs Enforcement — to access the data it collects from license plate readers as part of a previously unreported private partnership.
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As a conversation around federal funding for the cybersecurity needs of state and local governments continues, a congressional hearing last week gave tech officials a chance to plead their case.
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IT leaders in government should team up with their peers in other jurisdictions to share expertise and technology. Sharing agreements can open up possibilities that could be out of reach when working alone.
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IT officials are focusing on adding new services and tools to the city website and are developing a smartphone application to allow residents to report problems they spot throughout town.
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The launch of the Texas Artificial Intelligence Center of Excellence was announced this week. The initiative will facilitate the development of AI concepts and standards throughout state and local government.
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The Yakima Air Terminal and others have been chosen as a beta test sites for the aircraft, according to the state’s Department of Transportation. The announcement comes after two years of study with industry stakeholders.
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The agency will use a $5.7 million grant from the federal Environmental Protection Agency to buy seven of the 15 electric buses it plans to use for the Bus Rapid Transit system between Oakland and Downtown Pittsburgh.
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