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 city of Columbus is offering $300 in gift cards to 1,300 volunteers willing to have smart vehicle technology installed that will enable the user’s car to communicate with one another and traffic signals.
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What appears to be the first autonomous commercial freight trip across the U.S. was completed just before Thanksgiving. The trip originated in Tulare, Calif., and ended in Quakertown, Penn.
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The city has entered into a five-year partnership with Caltech, which will use an innovative new research field to collect mountains of data on earthquake activity for public safety applications.
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The city of Pascagoula was targeted by ransomware in late November. Officials say the incident was immediately contained by the city’s IT contractor and that critical systems were largely unaffected.
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The Guildford County Solution to the Opioid Problem is a multi-organization community effort to not only treat opioid overdoses and addictions, but also to get out ahead of them before those overdoses occur.
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The city’s police and fire departments have finished a multi-year project to update the public safety dispatch system. The initial cost of the overhaul was $3 million, with $2.8 million due each year for the next decade.
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The R.C. Musson and Katherine M. Musson Charitable Foundation ICS Testbed at the University of Akron, which held a grand opening Monday morning, aims to fight cybercrime through testing and training.
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At a time when Christmas online shoppers are expecting packages, Ring has become a new crime-fighting tool for the Mesa, Chandler and Gilbert police in those Arizona communities, helping them stop porch piracy.
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Columbus, Ohio, will be the location for the next pilot project from curbFlow, which is an app technology that is intended to better manage busy delivery, pickup and drop-off areas within cities.
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One-on-one laptop computers, broadband networking and advance planning have allowed the spread of e-learning programs in more school districts across the country, rendering the snow day obsolete.
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Hours after a gunman opened fire at the city's U.S. naval base, hackers crippled large parts of its network and incapacitated a number of services. The mayor has said it is unclear if the two events are related.
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The majority of Ohio's county boards of elections haven't installed the digital burglar alarm that Secretary of State Frank LaRose says helped his office detect a hacking attempt of his office's website on Election Day.
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Residents of Columbus say they were stunned that the city or companies didn't give them any say about where cell service providers can put up the towers for the new 5G — fifth-generation cellular wireless — technology.
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New Jersey’s largest health network is grappling with “externally-driven technical issues” that have shut down computer systems at its facilities since Monday, while officials deny widespread problems.
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Discussions of a digitized polling system have election officials and experts throughout the nation stepping up to avoid a potentially crippling move for the American electoral system, officials say.
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