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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State and local agencies face a host of challenges as they prepare to restart business. With the help of tech, knowing how to plan for short- and long-term needs, post pandemic, can make the difference.
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Though restaurant inspections have begun ramping back up in recent weeks, routine, in-person health inspections have been severely curtailed in Hampton Roads, Va., since the end of March.
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Over the next several weeks and months, courts around the country must figure out how to resume operations in a way that keeps employees and visitors safe, yet also safeguards the constitutional guarantee to a jury trial.
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A survey is shedding light on the digital divide in Appalachian southeast Ohio. This region has a lack of accessibility to the Internet, only exasperating the challenges that come with services shifting online due to the stay at home order.
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A group protesting the governor’s stay-home orders at the state’s capitol in late April says the tool meant to observe the spread of the novel coronavirus should not have been used to track their whereabouts.
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The New London, Conn., Police Department is planning to have every officer wearing body cameras by fall following a unanimous city council vote that authorized a $1.2 million contract to buy the cams and related tech.
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A Fort Worth company that believes it can revolutionize the electric motor industry while putting the city on the map as a tech hub stands to receive a nearly $70 million city grant for research and development.
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Across the nation, untold numbers of employers, employees and others are turning to a slew of sometimes pricey new COVID-19 blood tests as efforts to track and trace the virus factor into reopening plans.
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The Jobs Development Authority of Grand Forks, N.D., has approved funding for different projects, some of which could possibly include a downtown tech hub in the city.
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Since COVID-19 forced people to stay home to mitigate spread of the virus, telehealth practices have rapidly expanded. Health care professionals believe that telehealth will stay even after the end of the pandemic.
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Students in Western New York are being left behind in online learning due to lack of access to the Internet. The digital divide’s impact has increased since the coronavirus shifted many schools online.
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Shair is a real-time, air-quality monitoring tool that measures particulate matter, nitrogen oxide and several other pollutants, subsequently making the findings easily understandable for all users.
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Baltimore’s libraries are rolling out free Wi-Fi access in the streets and parking lots surrounding eight locations, making its services available online for the 40 percent of Baltimoreans who lack Internet at home.
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The coronavirus pandemic has disrupted American’s adversarial system of justice like nothing before it, chipping away at the bedrock guarantee of American jurisprudence — the right to a trial by jury.
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Summit County, Ohio, will launch a new smartphone probation app this week, with 1,000 of the 4,000 people currently on probation using an app that monitors their whereabouts with GIS technology.
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