Government Experience
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The city recently launched its Kensington Dashboard, which offers a comprehensive picture of the area through data, to inform residents and stakeholders about progress toward resolving its challenges. -
A statewide effort led by the Controller’s Office has connected grant management directly to its enterprise resource planning system, changing how agencies track, process and deliver funding.
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The Center of Excellence in Environmental Forecasting, recently stood up in a joint state-education endeavor, will aggregate information to inform residents on everything from hazards to recreation.
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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.
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With a $5 million contract announced Wednesday, Minnesota is turning to Deloitte to help fix the troubled website.
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Idaho earned an F for government transparency after the launch of the new Transparent Idaho website.
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The recent mudslide in Oso, Wash., showed the power of social media during times of crisis.
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What do federal transparency efforts mean for states, counties and municipalities that rely on federal grant funding?
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With its Nextdoor partnership, the Sheriff’s Department in Sacramento, Calif., will be able to communicate online with neighborhoods in the county.
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The website will be the city's clearinghouse for auctions of homes that the city offers through a program that forces vacant home owners to fix them up and get them occupied.
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The website's data offers communities important information as they plan projects for which they will apply for funding, according to the state's Water Development Board.
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The National Telecommunications & Information Administration has put a compendium of federal spectrum use online at Spectrum.Gov.
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Some government officials are finding Twitter a fast, cheap and easy method of advertising new job openings in their agencies.
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Anti-gambling activists question the wisdom of making it more convenient to play the lottery, citing the risk of increased addiction.
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The former president said Snowden's leaked secrets about government surveillance should force leaders to consider how to balance the use of technology for national security without destroying liberty.
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States are seeing a surge in e-filing this year, leading to quicker refunds. But in Minnesota, last minute changes to tax credits are roiling the filing season.
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Using technology like Google Docs allows the city to confine the council’s questions and contributed ideas about the ordinance to one document.
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CONNECT Our Future is an initiative that's designed to gather information from the public and help officials prepare for expected growth.
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State officials have quietly honed their strategies on Facebook and Twitter, venues where they can bypass traditional media, raise their public image and have a direct conversation with constituents.
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The website ran controversial promotional images, including Photoshopped depictions of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Governor Jerry Brown.
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New tool searched Twitter for the word "missing" and relevant tweets were provided to emergency response officials.
