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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The application cycle will close Sept. 17. Applications will be reviewed until funds are exhausted. Grant funds may be used to pay for costs associated with broadband deployment to underserved areas of the state.
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Traverse City, Mich., has agreed to lend $800,000 in economic development funds to the city-owned utility to boost its plans to bring Internet with up to gigabit speeds across a bigger swath of the city.
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A coalition of community groups called on leaders to reject a proposal they fear would put thousands of streetlight cameras in the hands of the San Diego Police without proper transparency, oversight or accountability.
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During a recent CoMotion discussion, officials from companies like Uber and Wisk Aero discussed the opportunities and hurdles presented by small, electric aircrafts as a means of shuttling riders through cities.
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The new nine-camera system will be mounted on poles in some of Lemon Grove’s public parks and at a busy intersection as part of the SafeSanDiego-Lemon Grove program. Footage will be accessible to deputies in real time.
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Most Sullivan County, N.Y., residents and business owners could get to subscribe to a speedy, new countywide wireless Internet network by late 2023, if the county’s decision-makers have their way.
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In these days of COVID-19, Prentiss County Sheriff Randy Tolar still does not allow the prisoner and the visitor in the same room. Instead, the county jail started video visitation last week.
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If one uses national headlines as a guide, it's police in cities that utilize drones and navigate all the issues involved with the technology. As such, the drone program in the small town of Linn, Wis., is a distinct case study.
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City officials began discussing body cameras for the police department in 2019, but budgeting priorities delayed the process. The national conversation about police misconduct is now speeding the $1.4 million technology spend.
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City workers in Cary, N.C., are planning to return to the office at the end of February, nearly a year after the COVID-19 pandemic sent them remote. However, a return to pre-COVID-19 work life may be forever in the past.
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The mayor of McAllen, Texas, recently conducted an impromptu test of the Wi-Fi system that the city began laying the physical infrastructure for last month, after a five-year effort to get it started.
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Roughly 500,000 people in North Carolina have unreliable Internet, primarily concentrated in impoverished rural areas where service providers see little incentive to build infrastructure needed to connect people.
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Since the coronavirus pandemic closed schools last spring, those who teach extracurricular activities — band, choir, dance or other performing arts — have had to wade through unique challenges.
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Plus, Pew suggests the essential elements of all good online legal assistance portals, Boston is looking for a legislative information management system to support inclusivity in public meetings, and more.
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The St. Clair County, Ala., Sheriff’s Office unveiled access to the national victim notification network that allows victims of crime and other citizens to access information about offenders in U.S. jails and prisons.
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