Government Experience
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SUNY Oneonta’s Milne Library and Cooperstown Graduate Program were awarded a $50,000 grant to digitize the university’s archive of New York state folklife and oral history recordings. -
Visitors to the Colorado state Capitol can now access free American Sign Language interpreting services through the Aira ASL app, building on the state’s existing work to expand language access with this tool.
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Mississippi has announced a new AI data center build that promises tax revenue and job creation. Such gains are not always easy to quantify, but policymakers can push developers to deliver.
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News and views on social media in state and local government in one tidy little package.
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After city officials were notified about the lack of security on a parking website, security measures were added to help protect citizens' information.
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Brown County, S.D., commissioners approved a resolution for online video visitation software to make it easier for inmates to communicate with loved ones.
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How to address the shortfalls in human-centered design has elicited innovative solutions to the all-too-common problems of public service.
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The Shaping Our Appalachian Region initiative is a statewide effort to implement innovative solutions to find high-tech ways to supplement the coal industry.
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Thirty years ago, C-SPAN introduced transparency in the federal government, but there are gaps at the state level that need to be addressed when it comes to effectively sharing video with the larger constituency.
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'All of our shared drive files have been encrypted with software typically used in ransomware attacks,' said spokesman Andrew LaMar.
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The state Legislature passed three bills all concerned with protecting state data and computer systems.
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After the mayor refused to turn over all of the interactions she had on Facebook, a resident sued her for what she claimed was a denial to share public information: The matter will be decided in court.
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Within the last month, Facebook made a pledge to the EU to help censor hate-mongering posts, and met with Conservative leaders about allowing free speech and promoting multiple point of views.
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Several big cities are decluttering and redesigning their government websites to make them easier to use.
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To discourage racial profiling, Nextdoor turned to city and community leaders in Oakland and also received input from Stanford associate psychology professor Jennifer Eberhardt, a MacArthur "Genius" grant winner and expert in how deeply rooted biases affect law enforcement.
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Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Microsoft have all agreed to the EU conditions on fighting hate speech online.
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The state has launched a new initiative that includes a broadband access survey where residents can tell officials where they live and what access they have to the Internet.
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During the Donald Trump rally in front of the San Diego Convention Center, an officer with the local Police Department posted a photograph of herself in riot gear with a controversial caption.
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Microsoft and Facebook – partnering with Telefónica – have chosen Virginia Beach, Va., as the landing point for a new state-of-the-art subsea cable across the Atlantic from Europe called MAREA.
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The Texas Attorney General's nearly $500 million technology upgrade serves as a warning for future IT projects on allocating the appropriate resources necessary and being prepared for unexpected obstacles.
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The new social media policy also warns against posts that constitute an appearance of a conflict of interest.
