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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Now in its 20th year, the city's Technology Matching Fund will receive $430,000 this year.
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A coalition of civic groups is now urging the task force to complete its work soon so the Legislature can include funding for the new equipment in its next year's budget.
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Businesses need to put up as much resistance as possible, so the cybercriminals look elsewhere.
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The hope is that the two-month test of smart city tech is successful and can be made available to other cities in the state.
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The city is using a type of predictive policing called risk-terrain modeling, which aims to help police identify places that attract crime and intervene to make them less attractive to criminals.
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The beyond.uptake program pairs service-oriented data scientists with industry experts for a six-month course of learning.
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The LAPD presented its drone proposal to the civilian Police Commission on Tuesday and reiterated that the drones won’t fly until that panel signs off on deployment guidelines that have yet to be drafted.
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Plus, San Leandro, Calif., STiR participants seek residents to test tech, Massachusetts’ comptroller expands transparency and open finances efforts, and Cincinnati launches a series of new dashboards.
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Cold War-era nuclear test films being re-analyzed at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California to more accurately predict current weapon yields could also better educate governments and first responders.
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Steve Ballmer’s new “Big Data” project has potential to shake up a government status quo defined by inertia and resistance to significant change.
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Canadian officials were able to recover the flight data recorder information from the botched landing at SFO, but the voice recorder had long been overwritten.
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The county's portion of the study would cost about $30,000.
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Detroit is the largest of 60 cities that switched to the new voting machines.
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Fastrack's main focus is to find “cutting edge, agile, and scalable solutions to urban problems.”
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Bellevue, Wash.; Portland, Ore.; Newport News, Va.; and Montgomery County, Md., use their Global City Teams Challenge grant awards from the National Institute of Standards and Technology to come up with smart tech systems that can be easily replicated.
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