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.
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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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TVA currently has about 3,500 miles of fiber optic lines along more than 16,000 miles of transmission lines.
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The Operational Excellence in Government project seeks to share ideas for improving performance across a wide range of government functions.
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Privacy concerns have helped ground drone plans in San Jose and Berkeley.
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The proposed city-Cruzio partnership has fallen to the wayside, but there is still the possibility of companies moving forward with fiber plans independently.
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Since standing up the Office of Performance and Data Analytics roughly two years ago, Cincinnati has enhanced customer service; boosted collections; and cut fire, police and IT costs.
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Attendees will be asked to fill out a one-page survey about their internet use at home, the level of service, and costs
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The idea is to provide incentive to broadband internet service providers who have wanted to come into Cheyenne, but have been put off by the existing fees.
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Before asking for public input on the matter, city leaders need to know how the tax could affect the city’s efforts at attracting new business and the workers who would pay it.
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Each time the survey is conducted, county workers try to refine it and are focusing on getting more accurate, thorough data.
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In April, the city decided that its temporary command center needed to go undercover, and subsequently removed videos of council meetings from YouTube and records of council actions from the city website.
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The project, financed with $90 million in federal and state grants, serves many local police and government buildings, but has been beset by legal difficulties for years.
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The drone, which can spray 80 acres in a day’s work, will be used to kill larvae growing in standing water, taking out the next generation of mosquitoes before they take flight.
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The initiative will be modeled after the New York Police Department’s “Shield” program, a clearinghouse for crime alerts, threat updates, training and latest offerings from counterterrorism experts.
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In rural areas, the system could potentially provide even faster speeds because fewer transceivers would be needed, allowing the laser chips to shoot beams at optimum speed over long distances.
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This bill is countering another bill introduced earlier in the year that limited the amount public utility providers can charge.
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