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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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According to a recent survey of U.S. workers, the shift to work-from-home arrangements has been a manageable one. Only a small number of respondents want to return to an office setting.
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Bad news for educators: Even as public schools have been hammered with cyberattacks amidst the pandemic, data shows this trend is likely to continue — or even escalate — throughout the coming academic year.
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This year, many consumers are already getting hit by phishing emails and texts involving COVID-19 tests and COVID-19 studies, according to the Better Business Bureau serving eastern Michigan and the upper peninsula.
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State officials are hopeful the digital tool will help slow the spread of the coronavirus by giving people the information they need to quickly isolate and test after coming in contact with the fast-spreading disease.
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Highways and bus routes. Weather and car crashes. Counties and cities. What happens when all that data comes together in one place? A look inside a major transportation initiative shaping up in Columbus, Ohio.
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After suspicious traffic on the city server forced computers to be shut down to external access for several days, city leaders voted to double the budget for the information technology department.
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An updated air-quality monitoring app covering large swaths of Southern California is combining data streams from both government and crowd-sourced sensors to give readings at the neighborhood level.
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A new report by the Urban Institute urges an additional $17 billion in annual federal spending for transit nationwide, which could bring many bus systems up to a level currently seen in major cities like Chicago.
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Artificial intelligence, a term for technologies that make gadgets and software smart, is expected to become a bigger part of lives thanks to advances in computing power, data storage and high-speed networks such as 5G.
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More than 2,600 households and businesses in parts of Pennsylvania will have access to high-speed Internet after the FCC auctioned about $9.2 billion to companies with the goal of closing the rural digital divide.
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Additional video conferencing rooms will be built at Westmoreland County Prison to allow for more court hearings to be held remotely as coronavirus infections continue to spread among inmates.
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For the first time in state history, a hybrid-electric plane has taken flight between Maui's Kahului Airport to Hana and back on a single charge. The Nov. 22 flight was conducted by Los Angeles-based Ampaire Inc.
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Plus, Philadelphia launches a new used technology donation program aimed at helping to close the digital divide, a federal agency releases hospital-level facility data related to COVID, and more.
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The novel charging technology allows power to be drawn from vehicles for use within the North Boulder Recreation Center during the day when demand is highest, and charges vehicles overnight.
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As of Nov. 16, the Greenville Police Department had received 587 alerts from the license plate scanning system, resulting in 11 warrants, and found 52 stolen vehicles based on those alerts.
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