Accelerating Innovation and Digital Transformation in Local Government
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The 54 winning cities in this year’s survey are incorporating community feedback into their plans, ensuring responsible AI use, maturing their data programs and navigating challenges without sacrificing service. -
The 52 counties honored in this year's awards from the Center for Digital Government are transforming local government with cutting-edge tech while focusing on resident services.
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Winning cities in the 2024 Digital Cities Survey are not only modernizing their IT infrastructure — they're investing in digital equity programs, upgrading resident-facing services and prioritizing data security.
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Lawmakers in the state voted unanimously to tightly restrict the use of facial recognition technology by requiring total agency control of the technology as well as new laws approving individual deployments.
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The Curiosity Lab in Peachtree Corners, Ga., is looking at the future of connectivity through its new 5G incubator — a partnership with the Georgia Institute of Technology, the city and telecommunications giant T-Mobile.
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LUS Fiber will extend broadband infrastructure to underserved areas in St. Martin and Iberia parishes and the city of Scott thanks to a $3.1 million federal grant, officials announced Thursday.
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ConnectMaine has opened applications for about half of the $15 million in bond money approved by voters last July to fund high-speed broadband infrastructure projects in unserved and underserved communities in the state.
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Experts, vendors and local government officials on designing online services in an accessible way while at the same time working toward community-wide banking equity.
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Beta Technologies, developer of advanced air mobility vehicles, could soon pilot a route to and from the new Springfield electric vehicle charging station, according to officials overseeing the exploration of the vehicles.
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Officials predict city budgets will be cut anywhere from 15 to 40 percent in the next year. The best way to do more with less is to use data as a tool to find out what works and where there’s opportunity to save.
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Government is tasked with the hefty responsibility of doing the people’s business, but what happens when people can’t access services or online systems fail?
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Plus, Philadelphia announces new pilot projects that will be supported by the city’s innovation fund, the Harvard Kennedy School releases a new step-by-step RFP guide for local governments and more!
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Three augmented reality projects have been awarded $20,000 each by US Ignite to develop projects that use AR technology to address city concerns like transportation, education or health care.
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Work in New York City collects systematic data on street-level flooding, partnering with local agencies to design real-time flood sensors and an open code that other cities can build on.
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Verizon is outfitting every student and teacher at five Richmond County, Ga., schools with the use of Chromebooks and 30 GB 4G LTE data plans that are slated to last for as many as four years.
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Officials from L.A. County, the nation’s most populous county, and the California Department of Technology offered their takeaways from the rollout of the My Turn COVID-19 vaccination eligibility website.
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Otsego Electric Cooperative announced that it had gotten a funding commitment from the Federal Communications Commission's Rural Development Opportunity Fund to help expand its infrastructure into unserved and underserved areas.
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A new report by the Transportation Research Board points toward more seamless and coordinated connections among all forms of shared mobility, such as buses, bikes, trains, scooters and more.
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