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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Officials are expecting a major return on the investment in the new LED lighting, which they believe will significantly decrease electric costs that range around $8,200 per month for the city-owned facilities.
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Cybercriminals and state-sponsored hackers may have chosen to target industries already left vulnerable because of large-scale disruption in their global supply chain of materials, experts say.
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At UT-Rio Grande Valley, administrators spent a tense summer preparing for the fall semester while local coronavirus rates spiked, the area spiraled into further economic depression and debate raged across the nation about how to safely send college students back to school.
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The 2nd Judicial District Attorney’s Office in Albuquerque has been delivering electronic devices to certain victims and witnesses so that they can testify at online court hearings during the pandemic.
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A different sort of virus — ransomware — has taken down the computer system at the Newhall School District, forcing a shutdown of distance learning for some 6,000 elementary school students, officials said.
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Companies operating in the small electric vehicle space are seeing broader adoption as food and grocery delivery demand holds steady. The vehicles are cheaper and more efficient than their gas and diesel counterparts.
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Texts and emails to more than 6,700 Mecklenburg County residents alerted them to erroneous positive coronavirus tests. County health officials say the messages were the result of a technical glitch.
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Residents testing the county’s new touchscreen voting machines seemed pleased with the new technology. Most county voters will use the full system for the first time in the Nov. 3 general election.
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Rock Falls, Ill., is collaborating with Surf Air Wireless on the FiberNet broadband network that serves the city, and a measure under discussion by the city council would see the city sell a portion of the network.
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Amazon announced plans Monday to hire more than 4,000 workers in metro Atlanta, increasing its workforce in Georgia by nearly half, part of a rising tide of jobs among online, logistics and shipping companies.
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The Orangeburg County, S.C., School District has developed a mobile application that can link its students and their families with telehealth services, doing so by partnering with local facilities and nonprofit groups.
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The company has said that all trips taken in U.S., Canadian and European cities will take place in electric vehicles by 2030. The company also plans to meet net-zero emissions from its corporate operations by 2030.
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Farmington Electric Utility System is exploring the feasibility of offering high-speed Internet service to city residents. Officials say the service would benefit customers while providing a new revenue stream.
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Russian agents reportedly placed malware in U.S. voter registration systems in 2016 and are actively interfering in the 2020 election. Here's the state of election cybersecurity.
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The remote learning models adopted by many Michigan school districts this year are creating challenges for parents, particularly if they are single parents with jobs that don’t allow them to work from home.
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