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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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Police forces across the country now have access to surveillance technologies that were recently available only to national intelligence services. The digitization of bias and abuse of power followed. -
Neighborhood Allies has partnered with Comcast to provide 1,000 Pittsburgh schools families with home Internet access, ensuring that nearly all district households will have the connectivity required for online learning.
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If one of the goals and responsibilities of government is transparency, then video footage from police body cameras is vital to ensuring accountability, or at least the perception of accountability.
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Three months after it closed in response to the coronavirus pandemic, the downtown museum reopened to the public Wednesday with a new parking garage, two new exhibits and a trailblazing new augmented reality experience.
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The Ultimate Urban Circulator Program is being planned as an autonomous vehicle overhaul of the city’s 1980s-era Skyway monorail. Transportation officials have put out the call for qualifications to advance the project.
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The pandemic and its sweeping effects took governments by surprise. But when the next crisis hits, there will be no excuse to be unprepared. Here’s the groundwork information technology leaders should put in place now.
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The state requirement that riders on buses, ferries and the like show proof of negative coronavirus tests before using public transit has officials in the Portland area confused about enforcement.
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State election officials voted to put more than $5 million in grant money toward securing local election efforts. The grants seek to boost cybersecurity technology and training, as well as costs associated with the coronavirus.
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Gov. Phil Murphy made assurances that personal data would be kept safe as the state prepares to deploy contact tracing technology. He says the tools will not be used to track movements.
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Plus, a Georgetown University center is emphasizing the importance of state CDOs during dual crises, Arkansas’ governor has created a new technology advisory board to address COVID-19, and more.
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The Census Bureau adopted its differential privacy policy after research showed existing methods, such as randomly swapping members of households, failed to do enough to protect the identity of individual participants.
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A new smartphone app developed in Indiana is putting access to more than 1,000 learning resources at users’ fingertips, and it promises to carry the concept into communities across the United States.
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Isolation is known to cause negative psychological and social effects, and the COVID-19 crisis has demonstrated that large-scale isolation creates an entirely new tier of issues in the digital age.
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The upgrade will refresh and clarify language from a 2014 order that helped roll out 4G Internet across the nation. With the developments in 5G, some wireless builders have experienced delays with tower upgrades.
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Two months ago, DroneUp conducted a series of tests where drones transported medical supplies under varying conditions. A new report on the tests offers insights about communication, equipment and procedures.
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