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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Sarasota County has approved an up to $180,000 Economic Development Incentive Grant to lure an unidentified company that says it wants to house new software product development and back office functions there.
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Two years after Alphabet subsidiary Sidewalk Labs was named the private-sector partner to revitalize a waterfront community in Toronto, citizens and city officials remain divided about whether to move forward.
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The City of Lights has developed a world-class, open platform for digitizing city services. Already successful in Paris, the platform, which can power multiple services, could start to appear in U.S. cities soon.
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Conversations about the Census tend to revolve around funding and political representation. But in its inaugural digital year, data gathered from the count could affect cities and citizens for the next decade.
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The North Carolina 911 Board has awarded a $2.2 million grant to Cumberland County for a new call center, which is estimated to cost $15 million. The money will help fund a number of different needs
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Palestine, Texas, officials thwarted the attack before it cost money, but City Manager Leslie Cloer has asked a cybersecurity specialist with the Palestine Police Department to speak with city employees.
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The small town of Hood River, Ore., has decided that it will participate in a new pilot project that will launch a plug-in electric car-share program, which is a relatively unusual thing for rural jurisdictions.
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Together with federal authorities and other partners, the state government has stepped in to help municipalities ailing from the large, coordinated attack that left town data locked up by malware.
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Years after buying up huge swaths of property near Diridon Station in San Jose, Calif., Google has provided the first peek at what it hopes will be a vibrant mixed-use community woven into the city.
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After a recent test with 350 agencies that included Miami Beach, Fla., the social media giant Facebook is making its emergency alerts tool available to any government page that wants to use it.
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Cary, N.C., chief information officer Nicole Raimundo discusses the benefits the city has seen from its testbed for smart city technologies, and how she works to secure the data it collects.
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Ransomware attacks are on the rise across the country — 22 U.S. cities were hit in the first half of 2019. Some governments pay and some don’t, but to benefit everyone and stop the growing epidemic, no one should.
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The county, which is home to Chicago, will partner with the national civic tech organization to clear tens of thousands of cannabis-related convictions that are eligible for erasure in the wake of a newly passed law.
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The city has launched its second “Philadelphia Resident Survey” to ask what its priorities should be, as well as what residents think of city services and their quality of life as it relates to many topics in the city.
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Dubbed Grow with Google, the program has touched more than 3,000 participants nationwide since its creation in 2017. This year alone the Grow with Google tour has been to 22 states including Wyoming.
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