Opinion

MaaS is one option for mainframe operators who seek prudent solutions to pressing personnel and budget constraints.

State regulators should consider how they can unlock additional data sets to enable the development of sophisticated choice engines that help consumers make wiser purchasing decisions in economic areas where the market lacks transparency.

While firefighters' working realities have changed profoundly in recent decades, their government structures and operating protocols remain largely frozen in bureaucratic amber.

The law being upheld is important because thus far, it has been one of the main drivers in digital health adoption and investment.

Gov. Kate Brown is expected to sign legislation that requires greater discipline by state officials and contracting agencies in the development of solicitation documents, specifically contract forms and templates.

While the strategy should be on the table as a state task force weighs Minnesota’s next health reform moves, calls to make that switch happen swiftly are premature.

While the U.S. side is sure to raise concerns over hacking of the Office of Personnel Management, few analysts think anything of substance will be announced this week.

A U.S. Senate subcommittee is considering a bill that would block the Clean Power Plan and make it much tougher for the EPA to create similar rules in the future.

States and localities are embracing the promise of big data. But just how good is the information they’re collecting in the first place?

In the wake of highly publicized data breaches and cybersecurity attacks, city officials are looking at historically underfunded municipal cyberdefense programs.

While the state's transparency laws enshrine the crucial presumptions that government meetings and documents are open to the public, statutes have grown old enough to reveal weaknesses and need updates.

Call it the mainframe renaissance. In an era of rapid delivery of applications, tight budgets and a new generation of IT personnel, the answer to many IT problems may be found inside Big Iron.

With the government collecting more information, not just on its personnel, but its citizens as well, it's time for our lawmakers to ensure it becomes a priority.

A trend among outsourcing companies is to scoop up vast quantities of H-1B visas and use them to replace fully qualified American high-tech workers with lower-paid immigrants -- so Congress is correct to scrutinize abusers and consider ways to plug loopholes.

In an era of unprecedented competition, municipalities turn to new mapping tools to aggressively market and sell to targeted business prospects.

The plan to modify the 30-year-old Lifeline program is attuned to the need for the public to have direct access to the technology that is reshaping American life.

Today there is data generated by every arm of a campaign, and opportunities to analyze nearly all of it. Which of those challenges a campaign tries to take on with its limited time and resources can illuminate its view of the race.

Vendors and governments can learn a lot from each other. The procurement process ought to start long before the RFPs are issued.