Government Experience
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Gov. Mikie Sherrill, who took office this week, orders improvements to the permitting process, calling for a dashboard and other work. She also wants to use AI to improve state operations. -
The state has been trying to revamp a pair of aging IT systems for some time, with one being related to worker's compensation and the other being the state’s financial systems.
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The federal government’s now-defunct United States Digital Service has served as an inspiration for states that are increasingly putting human experience at the center of their tech projects.
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Countless articles of stolen property are recovered in police departments around the country and, increasingly, officials use image hosting services to get the property back to their owners rather than auction them off.
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Magic was in the air last week when the Assembly Governmental Organization Committee held a hearing on legalizing Internet poker in California.
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A grave and widespread vulnerability in the application makes the argument for switching to a different browser about more than just aesthetics.
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The program ultimately levels the playing field for those who are hearing- and vision-impaired in a world where technology is ever changing.
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The city first used the platform during a five-alarm fire at a construction site in March.
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The proposal for a new set of network neutrality rules threatens to undermine the FCC's long-held principle of ensuring equal access to all content.
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Facing intense criticism from public interest groups, FCC Chairman plans to allow Internet service providers to charge companies for faster delivery of their content.
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One UW-Madison student's Internet search had unearthed a net of digital extortion.
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The department's interactive tool took two years and $500,000 to develop, and aims to be a user-friendly guide to bypass complexities and application hurdles for state veterans.
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The White House is leading efforts for a new authentication system that would have users prove their identity with a single ID across the Web. And states are starting to pilot the system.
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Even with BlightStat, New Orleans’ much-heralded blight-tracking system, there is no verifiable list of 10,000 remediated properties.
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Although a few friendly pictures were produced using a unique hashtag, the campaign was soon overtaken.
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The South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services hired the Social Analytics Institute to find people who were talking about its Medicaid services online so the agency could benchmark its performance.
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AT&T and Google are racing to roll out Internet service with speeds of up to 1 gigabit a second, a bandwidth that can handle today's high-definition video and audio.
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The work group who reviewed the policy presented its results and stated the obvious: The policy as written has a chilling effect on open dialogue in academia.
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If you turn on Nearby Friends, you’ll occasionally be notified when friends are nearby, so you can get in touch with them and meet up.
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The website seems like a hybrid of existing sites like Nextdoor.com and Rally St. Louis.
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While much of the country faced a March 31 deadline to enroll, Oregon secured a one-month extension due to technical problems with the Cover Oregon website.
