Government Experience
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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. -
The blockchain-based token, believed to be the first from a U.S. public entity, is for individual and institutional use. The executive director of the Wyoming Stable Token Commission is planning what comes next.
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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.
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Social media coordinators often aren't who government leaders turn to in times of need, but they can use their skills to help solve non-social problems.
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The popular micro-blogging platform is testing 280-character tweets with a small user group.
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Ads linked to Russian sources have drawn the focus of the company, along with a vow to be more transparent. But will the new guidelines be enough to answer the questions that remain around political advertising on the popular social media site?
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Supporters say such retail conveniences will help Maine’s new legal marijuana market compete with a thriving illegal market, while opponents warn against making it too easy to buy a drug that is still illegal under federal law.
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The move is a reversal for Facebook, which previously only showed staffers on Capital Hill snippets of the ads before taking them back, citing user privacy.
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From monitoring the power grid to promoting community-based services, winning solutions in this year's awards revealed agency missions that are keeping pace with technology, and embracing new strategies in management and procurement.
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The state of California is actively against the Trump administration, but the resistance only goes so far on certain platforms.
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Russia’s effort to influence U.S. voters through Facebook and other social media is a focus of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation as a part of last year's election.
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The Missouri Economic Dashboard, believed to be the first economic dashboard launched by a state treasurer, examines state and county financial data in comparison to national averages.
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During natural disasters, social media has been a turning point in getting victims help.
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Customer experience takes center stage in new program honoring governments with the broadest possible definition of what it means to be digital. Utah, Oakland County, Mich., and Denver, Colo., honored.
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New platform features more than 70 data sets, integrated city planning goals and a capacity for expansion.
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Victims of Hurricane Harvey reached out for help via social media instead of 911, which in many cases turned out to be a dead end with no help.
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The report looks at how states and municipalities can make themselves more welcoming to internet and technology firms.
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Future efforts may involve predictive analytics as city contemplates the future of putting public information to work for a better quality of life.
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Why governments aren't doing it — and why they should.
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About a quarter of the Facebook engineers in Seattle work on the company’s infrastructure projects, the tools to transmit, store and analyze the growing heap of data people feed into the social network.
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The Internet has changed the scale of disasters, the number of people who are vulnerable to them, and the cold implacable permanence of the wreckage they leave behind.
