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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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The Colorado Digital Service has been prototyping the USDS model with Colorado technologists. Here's a look at the first year in review.
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With the goal of creating a "digital society" in mind, Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall announced the creation of the city's first innovation department, along with a new digital equity infrastructure.
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GovOS will start with six products aimed at helping local governments set up online alternatives to paper-based processes and services, allowing Kofile to maintain its focus on digitizing public records.
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With the help of a new suite of software tools, city officials hope to streamline the process of applying for and granting building and development permits, while also enabling faster inspections.
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Plus, a new Kentucky state website allows visitors to test the speed of their connections, Miami has launched a new app to enable business licensing online via smartphones or computers, and more.
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The pilot project will attempt to use digital signage to alert drivers to snowplows and other slow-moving maintenance vehicles. The project could expand to audio alerts via smartphone.
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A new transit mobility platform developed by Cubic is designed to be used by transit agencies of any size, enabling riders to pay fares and plan trips across public and private modes.
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The pressure applied to the state’s legal system by the COVID-19 pandemic has forced courts to make a number of costly and disruptive operational adjustments.
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The city of around 400,000 residents in the Dallas metropolitan region will expand its partnership with Via to provide on-demand transit shuttles across its 99 square miles.
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The company has signed a five-year renewal for court technology with the government of the state it’s headquartered in. It’s the biggest contract in Tyler’s history, and one of a few milestones it’s achieved lately.
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The city encountered a number of roadblocks to everyday processes in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic, but was able to push its agencies toward new ways of doing things.
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As the number of fraudulent unemployment applications continues to rise, the state has partnered with an online identity network to filter through fraudulent claims and help those struggling to verify their identity.
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The assessor is used to looking over fences. But now that process is going high-tech, with images from the air available over subscription-based software and fed through AI algorithms to recognize new property additions.
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When government doesn’t deliver the same level of digital services citizens have come to expect from their private-sector interactions, they lose an opportunity to build trust in their communities.
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Members of the town council agreed to spend $11,000 last week for a Geographic Information System that will map aboveground and underground infrastructure.
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Plus, Code for America names Emily K. Tracy as chief revenue officer; the 2021 Global Mayors Challenge focuses on ideas stemming from COVID-19; City Innovate shares its STIR Lab partnerships; and more.
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The state of Arizona, in partnership with Thomson Reuters, announced the launch of their virtual court system, which allows critical evidence to be digitized, stored and shared remotely.
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Following a deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol at the hands of Trump supporters Wednesday, the president’s preferred platform has banned him, citing the risk of “further incitement of violence.”
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