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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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The Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services Crisis Text Line had 1,016 conversations in March — almost double the number of conversations it had in February, said researchers in the state. -
The fleet of robots on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus are on the front lines, working to deliver food and supplies to the several hundreds of students still stuck in residence halls during the pandemic.
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In Marin County, Calif., remote education during the pandemic is proving to be a struggle for many homebound parents and families, but for those with special needs children it’s even more demanding.
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A New York-based software company is suing the Nebraska Department of Education for $15 million in federal court, alleging the department used elements of the company’s copyrighted software in designing its own program.
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With an eye toward possibly starting to test all of the company’s employees for the novel coronavirus, Amazon officials said Thursday that plans are underway to build a testing lab as work continues amid the pandemic.
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Even as funding and fares dry up, transit agencies across the country continue to provide service for front-line responders and those serving essential functions during the COVID-19 crisis.
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The current global pandemic has upended the operations of government organizations around the world. Here are five recommendations for leaders confronting the “once in a lifetime” coronavirus crisis.
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4-H and Microsoft released a report that captures how much broadband can mean to youth and their communities. Teens who lack Internet access were shown to be less optimistic than their peers.
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The network is designed to provide redundancy for communities that experience regular outages. It also fills a need for high-quality, affordable broadband lacking in many rural areas, government officials said.
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City officials can now easily view zoning maps, land use, environmental data, infrastructure, signs, ADA improvements, parcel information, parks and other data layers within the mapping system.
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The Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative has been digitally convening mayors from around the world for weeks to discuss the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, governmental response, and localized recovery efforts.
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As Kalamazoo and other local governments across the state push to hold meetings online instead of traditional in-person meetings, they’ve also learned of the dark side of Zoom meetings as “Zoombombers” have dropped in.
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Plus, government support groups launch a new COVID-19 local action tracker, the Civic Innovation Challenge kicks off with $9 million in funding, and the New York State Digital Service is now hiring.
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The Plattsburgh, N.Y., Planning Board will start virtual meetings later this month, despite suspending its April Zoning Board of Appeals session in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, city officials have said.
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Traffic data and publicly available smartphone data show mobility in Maine decreased steadily over the past five weeks as company work-from-home policies transitioned into school and business closures.
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