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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For the first time ever, the U.S. Census Bureau will be accepting responses from families and individuals online, with responses due by Census Day, April 1. Paper and telephone responses will still be accepted too.
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Plus, meet the 2020 Innovations in American Government Award finalists; check out these five tips for cities doing data inventories; and take a look at this pair of new digital U.S. Census tools.
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The device, which can be mounted in the corner of a pool, uses artificial intelligence to recognize body parts and learn how humans act in the pool in an effort to identify and prevent drownings.
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In addition to allowing members of the public to send the department anonymous tips about criminal activity, the app also allows for two-way communication between the tipster and the police.
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As many as 40 homes in the New Mexico portion of the Navajo Nation are being connected to high-speed Internet. Until now, the community just south of Farmington was considered too rural to support.
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A phone app that is currently under development by two Augusta University researchers would help people know whether they are at risk for the novel coronavirus and whether they should get tested.
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California has ambitious plans to have 5 million vehicles on the roads by 2030. But in 2019, the momentum slowed slightly with sales dipping just more than 12 percent. Experts aren’t concerned.
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When Los Angeles set up a new system for collecting data from — and communicating rules to — emerging mobility companies, Uber refused to comply and lost its permit. Now, it's backing a group criticizing the data system.
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The New York city hopes to strengthen communication with software that would provide real-time data for officers on duty. The department said in a memo it wants to integrate 25 years of data into the system.
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There were at least 113 successful ransomware attacks on state and local governments last year, according to global cybersecurity company Emsisoft, and in each case, officials had to figure out how to respond.
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Information Technology Commissioner Jessica Tisch has said the city is on track to enable texting to 911 by June, with a goal of opening up 911 services to deaf and other New Yorkers unable to make voice calls.
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Rochester, Minn., is undertaking a one-year pilot project with the shuttles, which will circle an 18-square-block section of the downtown there and be implemented by the Minnesota Department of Transportation.
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The San Francisco company hopes to make a dent in California’s housing crisis by giving homeowners and developers an interactive mapping tool to show them if and how they can build an accessory dwelling unit.
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Various transit agencies in the New York City area will partner with nine startups on the focus areas of accessibility, revenue generation and curb space management as part of the Transit Tech Lab.
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San Diego has deployed cameras on more than 3,000 streetlights, covering roughly 5 percent of the city’s public rights-of-way, and a new investigation looks at whether they’re spread equally in neighborhoods.
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