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CDT Awards $36M Contract for New LifeLine Program Management

Plus, Anti-Bias Toolkit Offers Government a Closer Look at Automated Decision-Making and more...

TOP NEWS

CDT Awards $36M Contract for LifeLine Program Management The $36-million, 30-month contract with Maximus will help the California Department of Technology provide discounted home and cell phones to eligible households.


Anti-Bias Toolkit Offers Government a Closer Look at Automated Decision-Making The offering is a collaborative effort between GovEx, San Francisco, the Civic Analytics Network and Data Community DC.
 
Industry Giants, City Leaders Gather to Take on Seattle’s Biggest Issues Seattle City Hall housed representatives from tech giants like Microsoft and Twitter this week to discuss homelessness and transportation woes in the city.


MARKET SPOTLIGHT

Best of New York 2018: Winning Projects Focus on Cooperation, Breaking Down Silos New York’s state and municipal governments face daily challenges often on a scale unlike those found elsewhere in the country, and this year’s award winners excelled at finding new and more efficient ways to tackle them.


WHAT WE'RE READING

Microsoft Rolls Out Additions to Office, Security and Cloud Offerings (Bloomberg)
 
VCs Say Silicon Valley Is Not the Gold Mine It Used to Be (TechCrunch)
 
Voice Technology Is Useful, in Demand, and Not Moving Fast Enough (Digital Trends)
 
GovTechBiz is our weekly newsletter covering the companies, deals and trends in the business of gov tech. Got a news tip? Other feedback? We're listening. Send it to GovTechBiz Writer Ben Miller at biz@govtech.com.
Ben Miller is the associate editor of data and business for Government Technology. His reporting experience includes breaking news, business, community features and technical subjects. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in journalism from the Reynolds School of Journalism at the University of Nevada, Reno, and lives in Sacramento, Calif.