County Sheriff in Washington State Attributes Decline in Preventable Crashes to Telematics Using Verizon Connect, the Snohomish County Sheriff's Office began monitoring things like seatbelt use and speed in emergency vehicles a couple years ago. Since then, it has documented a sharp drop in preventable collisions and the litigation that comes along with it.
Kentucky CIO Considers 5G to Connect Rural Residents It's hard to get high-speed Internet to rural residents with conventional means. So the Kentucky CIO is looking at 5G to hook them up instead.
New Hardware Launches Here's a roundup of some of the new hardware that's hit the market recently.
New Tech in the Counties How much are county governments working with emerging technology? We've got that and a lot more from the 2018 Digital Counties survey in an infographic here.
Cityflag: Mobile CRM and 311 with open APIs.
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What One Company Learned After 200 Interviews about Local Government Procurement (ELGL) (H/T Urban.Us)
Rugged, Portable AWS Server to Support Aerial Imagery During Disaster Response (Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team)
Breaking Down the Environmental Benefits of Electric Buses Vs. Natural Gas and Diesel (Union of Concerned Scientists)
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