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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Cities across the country are struggling with how to use surveillance and other cameras as they weigh individual privacy rights versus public safety.
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Host Compliance is designed to find homeowners renting their homes through online services and enforce payment of transient occupancy taxes, or hotel taxes, which can be a large part of local tax revenues.
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The Morton County Sheriff’s office denied on Monday that it was tracking Dakota Access Pipeline protesters’ Facebook “check-ins” after a social-media campaign flooded the network.
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OpenGov's new open data product is launching for its first customer — the city of Denton, Texas.
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Connecting cities should serve all citizens, not just a few.
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City Controller Ron Galperin on released PropertyPanel.LA, the most sweeping map ever made of city properties.
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The Bay Area’s dominant rail systems — BART and Caltrain — are bursting at the seams as ridership is rapidly overwhelming the services. Meanwhile, Los Angeles is in the midst of a major rail system expansion.
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A 22-year-old faces sentencing for his role in a notorious group of cybercriminals that prosecutors allege was responsible for a destructive hacking spree on dozens of businesses, nonprofits and government entities.
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During the next six months, city officials will monitor how well the devices hold a charge, how they perform while lying idle in a vacant property, the possibility of theft, and false alarms.
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In places like Cobb County, Ga., and Forsyth County, N.C., officials have implemented GIS applications to give the public easy access to polling-station wait time information, along with other relevant election data.
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CIOs from six cities in New York convene annually to have open conversations in a closed, trusted space to share ideas, discuss common challenges and brainstorm potential solutions. This is a snapshot of selected conversations from the group’s annual meetings.
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The department, which serves 523 square miles of the county, started using the special heat-resistant Fire Cams about two years ago, and shared some of the dramatic footage on its Facebook page.
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Yinchuan is widely viewed as a smart city “blueprint” for other municipalities in China, but its approach offers a cautionary tale for cities making the leap to Big Data.
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About 45 cameras will roll out Nov. 9 in the Western District for a 60-day pilot program. Two different camera systems will be tested for 30 days each.
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Plans calls for Muni Metro to tie into the BART system about 12 to 18 months after a deal can be negotiated with the carriers.
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