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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Staffers in that office, which was created three years ago, will be transitioned to the Office of Information and Technology or the Office of Chief Administrative Officer at the end of the year.
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City tech leaders and cybersecurity experts confront the tension between elected officials beholden to the public and IT bosses whose primary concern is limiting the information available to bad actors.
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The city will decide whether to accept a deal with Verizon to add a cluster of wireless transmitters to streets in a compromise officials say is the best shot at regulating implementation within limits of federal law.
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Elkhart County Commissioners have approved $3 million to cover a variety of expenses, including roughly $200,000 to go toward computers for the sheriff’s office, with $50,000 more to cover potential technical issues.
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Officials involved in the public-private effort celebrated progress toward opening the innovation hub, which was first announced last year, and they touted some of the work on which they hope it will focus.
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Onondaga County, N.Y., has replaced big black election binders it has long used with 400 iPads. This is the first time, aside from early voting, that iPads have been used to check voters in.
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Amarillo College hosted the grand opening for The Underground, an 11,000-square-foot interactive learning center space in the basement of the Ware Student Commons on its Washington Street campus.
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A glitch with Georgia’s new voter check-in computers caused delays in most of the six counties testing it, causing some precincts to stay open late to accommodate voters who left without casting their ballots.
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The New Haven-based Regional Water Authority has hired a former National Grid executive in order to fill the newly created position there of vice president and chief information and digital officer.
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The city police commission unanimously approved spending up to $30,000, from the late Geraldine Webber's bequest, to buy a van for transporting six drones purchased with a Homeland Security grant.
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The Howard County, Md., Police Department will purchase three drones for field testing that will span an entire year, making the choice seven months after disbanding its aviation program, according to a news release.
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A smartphone app that allows residents to share real-time information and content, "Neighbors by Ring" will facilitate the exchange of videos, photos and text-based photos by Thomasville residents.
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The proposal was presented to residents during a special town meeting last month, where a paper ballot vote revealed overwhelming support of the measure, giving the proposal a green light to head to a referendum.
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For more than a decade, broadband expansion in Waterloo, Iowa, has been a relatively stagnant issue. But recent support for a feasibility study to evaluate the possibility of a municipal broadband option has put the city in the spotlight.
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Cities like Seattle and Chicago are mapping construction and other projects on a new online platform that offers detailed insight into how construction, paving or other work might impact mobility.
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