Accelerating Innovation and Digital Transformation in Local Government
Digital Communities News
-
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.
-
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.
Surveys & Awards
More Stories
-
The Clearwater City Council on Thursday voted unanimously to adopt body cameras for its police officers, making the city’s police force the second law enforcement agency in the county to do so.
-
Plus, Philadelphia launches a new contracts hub aimed at simplifying vendor procurement processes, and Philadelphia also announces a new PHLConnectED program to foster remote learning for the fall.
-
With the need for broadband Internet access acutely heightened during the COVID-19 pandemic, Bastrop County, Texas, is partnering with a nonprofit to analyze accessibility around the county.
-
The City Hall building in York will be closed until further notice following a “physical attack” on the Information Technology infrastructure that is housed there, according to a news release issued by the city.
-
Reddy Bikeshare expanded its rental bicycle fleet, at a time when the novel coronavirus pandemic helped launch a national summer biking explosion and Black Lives Matter demonstrations underlined racial disparities.
-
According to the evolving plan in Framingham, Mass., the city's public schools will begin remotely and will eventually shift to a mix of in-person and remote learning when it is deemed safe.
-
As New Orleans students prepare for a school year that will start with lessons conducted over the Internet, officials said they are pursuing a plan that could eventually provide wireless Internet across the city.
-
As a temporary fix to broadband access problems, schools have requested that South Carolina pay for Internet access for 57,000 households for the upcoming school year mostly through mobile hot spots.
-
The Lafayette Parish School Board has allocated $1.5 million toward providing short-term Internet solutions for students who lack access as part of a public-private partnership with local philanthropists and businesses.
-
The Moscow School Board voted unanimously Tuesday night to begin the school year with a hybrid instructional model, which includes two days of in-school instruction a week and three days of distance learning.
-
The Newport, R.I., City Council on Tuesday voted to pass a new resolution that would for now utilize remote interactions in lieu of in-person meetings at City Hall in the midst of the ongoing novel coronavirus pandemic.
-
The assets of Ashford University, including its 35,000 students, will be under the umbrella of the University of Arizona Global Campus, a non-profit, fully online entity, the administration said.
-
Teachers, students, parents and allies rallied outside the Comcast regional headquarters in South Baltimore on Monday afternoon, calling on the company to improve the quality of its Internet services.
-
Telehealth has become increasingly common as a way for doctors and other health care workers to see patients without risking exposure to the coronavirus. But there are still many people who don’t have a way to connect.
-
More than 2,000 school children are expected to be able to access the network, and other residents will be able to access the network for services such as unemployment, rental assistance and info on new health orders.
Premier Sponsors
Sponsors
