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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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Residents of Garfield County, Idaho, should have access to high-speed Internet by the end of the year, with Zero DB Communications, a Spokane telecommunications company, slated to finish the installation work.
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Worcester, Mass., Public Schools students weighed in on the remote learning experience so far as some students prepare to return to the classroom — though most won’t be back in-person until January or February.
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As the race between former Vice President Joe Biden and incumbent President Donald Trump comes to a close, transportation officials try to sort out what the next four years could hold for U.S. transit and sustainability.
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The gradual shift toward electric vehicles could send ripples through the car manufacturing process, affecting workers on the front end and the parts and maintenance industry on the back end.
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Orangeburg County, S.C., is currently continuing to place broadband infrastructure on its main thoroughfares, but the problem remains that it simply does not reach all of the area’s residents.
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Nationwide, students in low-income households are less likely than their peers to have high-speed Internet connections at home, a problem education leaders and researchers call the 'homework gap.'
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Preparing for a pandemic-plagued semester, Iowa's public universities carved out residence hall space for students with COVID-19 who needed to isolate or those with close contacts who needed to quarantine.
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The county government's network, email and phone lines were rendered "inoperable for an undetermined amount of time,” County Manager Dan LaMontagne said Wednesday. The attack did not affect early voting or 911 systems.
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A ransomware attack on election-related government computers in a Georgia county raises the specter of more disruptions for Election Day voting and vote tabulation.
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During the Smart Cities Connect Conference this week, tech leaders from Ohio and Colorado shared how digital operations morphed and grew during the COVID-19 crisis because of the earlier efforts to build smarter cities.
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Hospitals and health-care systems across the nation and in Massachusetts are facing increased ransomware threats, federal law enforcement and cybersecurity agencies warned, urging organizations to prepare.
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A recent ransomware attack that took over some Hall County, Ga., election information will apparently not harm other election systems in the state, according to the secretary of state's office.
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A computer scientist has created an interactive map where people can look up almost any address in 16 California counties including the entire Bay Area, and see the tax on that property and all surrounding ones.
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Plus, Colorado’s contract tracing app is seeing large buy-in from users within the state, the U.S. Digital Response publishes a social media playbook for government, and how to map election turnout change data.
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Due to financial constraints, a handful of states are still using paperless voting machines, considered by cybersecurity professionals to be the most insecure and most vulnerable to hacking.
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