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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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Plus, the CA.gov redesign is now underway; new tools created to help address online misinformation; Census State Data Centers are offering localized training resources for community groups; and more!
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With Chattanooga, Tenn., as a backdrop, members of the Metropolitan Information Exchange hashed out development, deployment and operational strategies for fast, ubiquitous community broadband infrastructure.
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Lakeland, Fla., has entered into agreements with two private Internet service providers that may be willing to strike a private-public partnership to offer gig-speed Internet at Monday's city commission meeting.
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The ordinance in Huntsville, Texas, which is still subject to approval, determines where e-scooters can and can’t be ridden, allowing for riders to operate them on sidewalks, where bicycles aren’t allowed.
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Officials in Davis, Calif., may turn to installing surveillance cameras throughout the city, after a series of armed robberies in the last two months have prompted a search for more ways to deter crime.
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Text-to-911 capabilities aimed at helping residents get better access to emergency response are now in place at a regional Iowa communications center, which connects people to fire, police and sheriff's departments.
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Davison County, S.D., is pursuing a first responder-specific broadband network that personnel would be able to use to communicate on exclusive channels during emergency events in the region.
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State and local officials in Alabama are now touting a new partnership between C Spire and Alabama Power, expected to bring faster Internet services to Birmingham and central Alabama in 2020.
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By tapping human-centered design principles, the i-Team in Durham, N.C., has helped the district attorney remove 51,000 charges for 35,000 individuals, many of whom were facing restricted driving privileges.
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A new multidisciplinary group is hoping to start a conversation that can answer questions about new concerns specific to using drones in the nation's most densely populated metropolitan areas.
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Heavy-duty vehicles contribute a disproportionate amount of particulate matter and greenhouse gases, making them prime candidates for converting to zero-emission vehicles. Buses are no exception.
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Schenectady’s smart cities initiative will be the subject of two forthcoming events unfolding at the same time this week, owing in part to the recent snowstorms in the upstate New York region.
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Thanks to anticipated federal Title IV grant funding, Maryland public schools could expand or establish co-curricular robotics programs at county high schools, according to an announcement Tuesday.
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A former dark room at the Erie, Pa., Bureau of Police has been turned into an evidence processing area with a $25,000 donation from the Siebenbuerger Club, complete with state-of-the-art fingerprint processing and more.
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Officials in Albuquerque’s mayor’s office told the City Council that staff would review the past two years of crime data after revelations that the city has released numbers that dramatically overstated improvement.
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