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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While the highest standards are reserved for city-operated accounts and pages, the policy also limits offensive comments on personal accounts, especially posts that might reflect negatively on the city.
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Known also as AcceleratePA, the Monroe Gigabit Project aims to bring gigabit internet service to clients in the area for an annual cost of $1,000 or less.
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The plan would not be to provide direct internet service to homes in the town, but to create a “middle mile."
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Often the people digital equity programs were designed to help assumed the initiatives were for someone else. So officials reached out to underrepresented populations and spread awareness that they, too, deserve a place in tech.
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Plus, San Francisco's STiR director leaves for NYC, and Chicago's new open data portal keeps user-friendliness front and center.
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After 42 years, officials are turning to tech-based solutions to address the city's noise element update. They are also hopeful the approach will bring new voices to the local conversation.
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The proposal is to install single-space "smart parking meters" as part of a 90-day pilot program in in Haverhill, Mass.
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Fiber can provide symmetrical upload and download speeds that allow tech startups to give as much as they demand; it responds to the growing trend of telecommuting employees; and ubiquitous broadband gives employees parallel service between work and home.
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Although universal wireless internet and information sent by lasers over thin air may sound appealing, experts say a fiber infrastructure is the immediate future of fast internet.
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A PARC drone, which is tethered to the ground by a thin wire that supplies power and data allowing it to stay aloft for days at a time, even during rain or snow, will be up in the sky for hours before runners even begin to line up at the start.
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AT&T, Comcast, Consolidated Communications and Spectrum (formerly Time Warner) only sped up their service after Google Fiber came to town. They all insist it was customer demand, not Google, that prodded them.
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The combination of the gyroscope, GPS and accelerometer in all smartphones turns them into really powerful sensors.
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Now in its third year, the survey from government website developer Vision identified significant digital communication usage from city and county agencies.
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The overarching framework for the strategy is the NOLAlytics Use Case Typology, which describes six possible opportunities for analytics to be used in government.
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While many other local governments and even the state are struggling to solve the same problem, L.A. has created a repository for IT knowledge.
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