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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Having been described as having the efficiency of "two cans on a string" and durability of "masking tape and baling wire," Story County leaders are in agreement that the outdated communications system needs to go.
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To push users toward different kinds of transportation — including its own bike-share — the company has started to include routes and schedules for Metra, CTA and the South Shore Line.
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After months of consideration, the city council voted to ban the on-demand scooters from sidewalks in most of the uptown area as well as add a speed cap and per-unit fee for companies.
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The police department is one of several to partner with the home surveillance company’s smartphone application, which allows them to push real-time crime information to users.
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The city has fluctuated on when and how to introduce the technology to officers, even setting aside the funds to make it happen. Now, officials seem to have renewed energy for the effort.
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The Metropolitan Information Exchange, a small, prestigious group of local-level chief information officers, has released its annual list of priorities and challenges to help public-sector leaders understand the CIO role.
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Access to recovery resources could be streamlined through a New Hampshire pilot program that gives Internet-connected technology to former inmates grappling with substance abuse disorders.
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The Regional Task Force on the Homeless plans to use unmanned aerial vehicles, helicopters and overhead infrared technology to get a better count of the city’s transient population.
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The local investment will give 3,800 residents access to high-speed Internet in an area that has struggled to escape the days of dial-up service.
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Electric cooperatives are heralded by some as the best hope for rural broadband expansion, but outdated laws are standing in the way.
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City Manager T.C. Broadnax tapped Laila Alequresh, a veteran of public-sector technology innovation work in Los Angeles and Philadelphia, to lead the city's freshly created Office of Innovation.
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Researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle have created a smartphone application that senses breathing patterns and is triggered when the subject takes seven or fewer breaths per minute.
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The state-of-the-art center would provide a central hub for crime analysis and monitoring and help push real-time intelligence to officers in the field, according to Chief Murphy Paul.
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit is allowing a ruling from the Federal Communications Commission — one that takes away decision-making from local government on small cell equipment — go into effect.
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Using what is quite possibly the fastest RFP process in the gov tech space, a list of 700 applicant companies has been pared down in preparation for this year’s four-month program.
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