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Senate Bill 707 mandates that larger cities and counties provide options for remote participation in public meetings by July 1, among other requirements related to translation and teleconferencing for elected officials. -
The state’s new governor has outlined her spending proposals for the upcoming fiscal year. Tech innovation and the impact of digital platforms on mental health also gain financial support in the new document.
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While the New Mexico Office of Broadband Access and Expansion is deploying broadband infrastructure, the State Library and its digital equity program manager are on the ground enabling access.
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Illinois’ state government is one of several agencies taking a data and analytics-driven approach to messaging around COVID-19 vaccine distribution efforts, similar to the same efforts for the U.S. Census.
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From C-SPAN to its state-level counterparts, public affairs television and its minute-by-minute coverage of government proceedings have rarely been more critical than in the past year.
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Experts, vendors and local government officials on designing online services in an accessible way while at the same time working toward community-wide banking equity.
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Government is tasked with the hefty responsibility of doing the people’s business, but what happens when people can’t access services or online systems fail?
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Plus, Philadelphia announces new pilot projects that will be supported by the city’s innovation fund, the Harvard Kennedy School releases a new step-by-step RFP guide for local governments and more!
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The state’s unemployment insurance system, which has struggled against a benefits backlog, has gotten the green light for modernization from lawmakers, but funding it could prove challenging.
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The state is looking to shorten time it takes to renew driver's licenses and state IDs starting in March by upgrading its online offerings and some 135 self-service stations at its offices and certain grocery stores.
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Vaccine seekers have been navigating conflicting information from the state’s MyTurn COVID-19 vaccine registration website, in some cases allowing appointments to be mistakenly booked by people outside the county.
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Indian River County is leveraging a new vaccine registration system aimed at residents 65 and over. The new process is a notable change from the "first-come, first-served" system residents were struggling to navigate.
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The startup has traditionally served the process of re-integrating the incarcerated into society. Now it’s jumping into health care with an initiative in Arizona, and hoping to sell to state Medicaid agencies.
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Transit providers in Berks and Lancaster counties have upgraded fare payment and other technology to better enable contactless transactions amid a larger push to improve safety and convenience for riders.
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From online public meetings to chatbots, the COVID-19 pandemic made tech-enabled government communication a must-have. How can we keep the momentum going in a post-COVID world?
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Plus, the NSF named 52 teams as Civic Innovation Challenge awardees; Anchorage, Alaska, launches a financial navigator to help residents impacted by the pandemic; and the USDR is offering pro-bono vaccine rollout support.
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The new WhiteHouse.gov accessibility statement proves that the Biden administration is committed to making its website usable for people of all abilities, and is instructive for state and local government as well.
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Through a new county program, 300 low-income families will have access to free Internet service. The program is similar to a Wi-Fi project that launched in San Rafael's Canal neighborhood last year.
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Plus, the Federal Chief Data Officers Council has launched a new website with an absolutely perfect URL, the U.S. Treasury tapes artificial intelligence to help parse spending bills faster and more.
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The acquisition, probably the biggest gov tech deal ever, would bring together a giant of local government software with a giant of state software. Here's how the deal came together, and what it might mean for gov tech.
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The company has integrated an AI-powered chatbot from a third-party company in order to meet demand from its government customers, who have found themselves facing more questions from constituents during the pandemic.
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