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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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In the past five years in the state, tech-related jobs in analytics grew 40 percent, engineering grew 18 percent and tech installation and maintenance grew 16 percent. And this double-digit growth only seems to be trending up.
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Two California bills aimed at enabling and regulating new forms of urban mobility have been put on hold at least until early next year. Like other states, it is grappling with how to address emerging mobility solutions.
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On this episode of GovTech360, a postmortem on Baltimore’s costly cybersecurity fail; a startup with a better way to find a public bathroom; and a first-person preview of GovTech’s adventures in China.
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An automated middleman is bridging transportation gaps for seniors without smartphones by connecting them with app-driven ridesharing services. The tool has gained popularity with non-driving seniors.
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The city’s Commission on Human Relations, which is drafting regulations for the new law, voted June 21 to push back implementation so the public could better understand the ordinance’s requirements.
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More than 140 cities and counties in the United States have pledged to purchase more than 2,100 electric vehicles by the end of next year, a move that lends more credibility to the alternative fuel technology.
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Officials said Google’s decision to build the data center in Mesa means that the city's Elliot Road Tech Corridor will be anchored at each end by one of the world’s largest tech companies, Apple and Google.
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There's not much in the way of hard numbers, but a solid guess based on surveys would be that a little more than half of all law enforcement agencies in the U.S. use body-worn cameras in some capacity.
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Father Bill's and MainSpring, a Brockton-based nonprofit homeless shelter, announced this week that it had been attacked by ransomware in April. Officials say they do not believe that personal information was stolen.
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The assessor’s office has been unable to update details about property that changed hands or was added and deleted from the tax rolls since the Pennsylvania county’s courthouse network was shut down May 28.
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The city is one of a handful of local governments creating new rules around the use of the technology. Officials at all levels of government have voiced concern about built-in bias and the need for regulation.
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California lawmakers Wednesday tasked State Auditor Elaine Howle with looking into how law enforcement agencies in the state use and share the data gathered through license plate-scanning technology.
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If the it does pass, Oakland will be either the second or third city in the nation to ban its departments from using the technology. San Francisco already banned the equipment, and Berkeley is voting July 9th.
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Starry Internet, a fixed wireless provider, purchased spectrum licenses from the Federal Communications Commission to sell service in Baton Rouge and New Orleans, though no official timeline has been released.
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The Ames City Council directed city staff to extend an invitation to an undisclosed private Home-To-The-Premises provider that plans to invest $30 million in Internet infrastructure into the Ames market.
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