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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 newly completed station will give drivers in the southern portion of the downtown area access to six fast chargers. The fast chargers can charge some electric vehicles to 80 percent within 30 minutes.
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Santa Clara County officials announced the multimillion dollar donation earlier this week. It will be used to fund laptops, tablets and hot spots for 15,000 under-connected students in the San Jose area.
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The data potentially accessed by the cyberintruder included basic information about individual donations to the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library. Officials maintain that banking information was untouched in the incident.
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The New York City Tenant Resource Portal is that city’s first free online portal aimed at helping vulnerable tenants citywide prevent being evicted and to ultimately keep them stably housed.
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The Eau Claire County, Wis., Finance and Budget Committee has approved a resolution authorizing County Clerk Janet Loomis to submit a county election security subgrant agreement to the Wisconsin Elections Commission.
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Students in New Hampshire’s largest city will begin the year learning remotely but could move to an optional hybrid model at the end of the first quarter, under a plan approved by school board members Monday night.
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There were petitions from citizens filed with the Worcester City Council calling to not go forward with a body camera program for police, while another petition called for funds to come from the existing police budget.
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After a summer of local, state and federal efforts to expand Internet access for families, more than 850 laptops will be deployed across Carter County, Okla., with students beginning a new school year.
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Toledo is working to secure funding for approximately 195 more body cameras for its officers, which is an acquisition that would give them a total of 574 cameras, outfitting every officer who interacts with the public.
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The Grant County, Wash., Courthouse and other county buildings in the area will be getting new keyless entry systems on all of their exterior doors, a project that could cost more than $200,000.
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According to a new database called the Atlas of Surveillance, at least 18 police departments have partnerships with Amazon’s home security company, Ring, and another 17 agencies operate drones.
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Buffalo views its 311 line as a way that it can be a good neighbor to its residents. Here's how the city leveraged partnerships and tech to ensure that citizens could call their government for anything during COVID-19.
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Hundreds of thousands of Marylanders lack access to high-speed broadband Internet, a long-standing problem that’s become more pressing as school and work move online and social distancing keeps people at home.
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The union representing IT workers at the Tennessee Valley Authority is praising the federally-owned utility’s decision to reverse the outsourcing of 200 crucial IT jobs to foreign-based firms.
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With the start of the school year just weeks away, Philadelphia city officials on Thursday announced a plan to provide free Internet access for 35,000 low-income families who currently lack it.
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