Opinion

COBOL is a 50-year-old programming language that some say government should get away from. But it could still have a place in modern IT organizations.

Officials predict city budgets will be cut anywhere from 15 to 40 percent in the next year. The best way to do more with less is to use data as a tool to find out what works and where there’s opportunity to save.

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?

Net neutrality is the idea that all Internet content should be treated the same by internet service providers, meaning ISPs shouldn't be allowed to favor some content over others, typically for extra cash.

A new measure would give Washington residents the ability to access, transfer, correct and delete data that Big Tech companies — such as Google and Facebook — compile and give them the right to opt out of targeted advertising.

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?

Oklahoma State Rep. Frank Lucas has been pushing for rural broadband Internet connectivity across the state, doing so most recently by penning a related bipartisan letter to President Joe Biden.

According to a November report of the Governor's Broadband Development Council, more than 900,000 Texans don't have access to broadband at home, and getting them connected may be a rare bipartisan issue for the state.

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.

The latest illustration of disconnect between the Massachusetts state government’s delivery of COVID-19 shots and the rest of the state's reality springs to life online through a guide some find cumbersome.

In the wake of the pandemic, the U.S. Department of Justice took a major step toward supporting an open Internet Monday when it dropped its legal challenge to California's 2018 model net neutrality law.

The pockets of high-speed Internet wasteland that pockmark Pennsylvania are shameful in an age when good i\Internet accessibility is as ubiquitous, for most, as postal service and electricity.

Research by a San Francisco-based analytics firm found that conversations about election fraud dropped 73 percent across popular social media sites in the week after President Donald Trump was banned from Twitter.

The state’s digital divide stems from a lack of data on the availability and cost of high-speed broadband Internet statewide, which is why Gov. Andrew Cuomo should sign the Comprehensive Broadband Connectivity Act.

Last week, Gov. Cuomo saved the biggest part of his four-day State of the State speeches for the end: A new West Side centered around an overhaul of the always terrible transit hub, Penn Station.

Days after Trump incited a riot at the U.S. Capitol, Twitter permanently banned him from its platform, and many other social media companies like Facebook, YouTube and Snapchat suspended Trump's accounts as well.

It's understandable that private companies would not want their services and platforms used to foment violence and undermine democracy, yet still concerning that these platforms have so much power.

With future elections likely to divide along stark partisan lines, and election security in question, end-to-end verifiability can let voters know that their ballots have been received and not tampered with.