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The big elections are still months away, but a look at the numbers shows the likelihood of big changes at the CIO spot for 2027. A NASCIO leader discusses what might come after the elections. -
The city now requires electronic requests be made via its online portal, mandates a deposit for large requests and has updated its fees. The moves are intended to smooth the process and recoup actual costs.
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Gov. Mikie Sherrill, who took office in January, wants more public safety tools to protect stops and stations, and a better user experience. She has ordered officials to come up with a plan.
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The group, formally called the Election Law Advisory Board, would be tasked with mapping out election reform measures and emerging technologies to identify "best practices to ensure voting integrity."
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Of course people need ethics. But the current troubles in the technology industry are not evidence of an ethics crisis; it is a public-policy crisis.
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The Democratic senator wants state and local government to get smarter about how it uses technology, following in the footsteps of relatively recent federal outfits such as the U.S. Digital Service.
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Residents are being urged to sign a petition supporting a $8.9 million surveillance camera network. The money would come from local and federal traffic signal modernization funds.
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With state-mandated deadlines looming, Guilford County officials are trying to delay the replacement of 1,400 touchscreen voting machines — a replacement slated to cost around $8 million.
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A recent influx of funding was meant to fix the state’s struggling Licensing and Registration System. Now, lawmakers are grappling with whether to pull the plug and start from scratch.
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Officials with the Office of Management and Enterprise Services say the agency needs $7 million by April 1 to avoid serious disruptions in service. State lawmakers are hesitant to hand over the funds without a closer look at agency finances.
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The legislation that took aim at drivers “under the influence of an electronic device” — talking on a cellphone or texting — has lost momentum and is likely to fizzle out completely, according the lawmaker behind it.
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Aging technology and hard-to-find replacement parts have prompted the call to replace the city’s 13-year-old voting machines with new optical scanners ahead of the 2020 presidential elections.
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Laura Negrón, the city’s chief privacy officer, explains how the task of balancing information privacy protection with responsible data sharing can lead to better services for the individuals and families that need them.
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The proposal designed to lure data centers to the state was endorsed by the Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee March 19.
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A number of groups have pushed for years for more transparency in the state capitol, but only the House Finance Committee hearing room was ever equipped with cameras. Tuesday, House leadership announced that would change.
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Legislation in the works could help funnel more money to broadband efforts throughout the state, but some say it still leaves sizable gaps between Internet haves and have-nots.
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Hundreds of the antennas will be deployed in the city, including dozens throughout the historic French Quarter, but some residents are voicing concerns about safety and aesthetics.
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A bipartisan group of U.S. senators has introduced legislation that would prevent transit agencies from using federal funding for rail-car contracts with companies that are owned, controlled or subsidized by China.
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Rapid advances in AI have sparked growing concern about the ethics of allowing algorithms to make decisions, its effects on the workforce and the dangers of those decisions could include human bias.
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The data would not include a rider's name, but even in sprawling metropolitan areas, paths between home, work and school are typically unique, experts say.
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The new rules state that no company can mount a small cell node or other equipment on an electricity pole or any other city property without first signing a franchise agreement and receiving a city permit.
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