Denver

Suma Nallapati, CIO for the city and county of Denver since 2023, will expand her title to chief artificial intelligence and information officer, a move Mayor Mike Johnston says will help position Denver as a leader in AI.

The ninth annual Government Experience Awards celebrates the states, counties and cities that are leveraging technology as a strategic tool to better deliver the services residents need when they need them.

Expecting a steep drop in federal funding next year, Denver Public Schools formed a working group of staff from IT, purchasing, curriculum and instructional departments to streamline the process for evaluating apps.

The recent launch of the centralized Workday Strategic Sourcing tool aims to unify and smooth the city-county’s sourcing activities, for a swifter, more transparent process. It unifies requests once managed separately.

The Denver City Council is poised to adopt new rules for shared electronic scooters that would add parking requirements in some places while also ushering in a ban on sidewalk riding.

An eight-month pilot program resulted in law enforcement recovering about 170 cars and arresting nearly 300 people, and it helped solve homicides, robberies and hit-and-runs, according to police.

The city and county of Denver’s Department of Technology Services has released a request for proposals from vendors using artificial intelligence to improve operations and the resident experience.

Denver appointed a new chief information security officer, Merlin Namuth, in October. He is building relationships as the foundation for a people-centered approach to cybersecurity in the city and county.

The city and county of Denver has chosen to hire from within for the role, which was created this summer. Sean Greer, Denver's IT director of service delivery, was selected and started work this week.

A company planning to build a new data center in Denver will no longer seek a $9 million tax break from the city after the proposed deal raised questions among officials about water and energy usage.

A proposed tax break for a new data center in north Denver is facing questions from city leaders concerned about the project’s water and energy needs in a city trying to reduce emissions and conserve water.

A young company that formed during the pandemic and chose the Denver area as its base has big ambitions: to become the entire world’s leading supplier of advanced electric motors.

The city-county is recruiting for a chief information security officer; a recruitment for a chief data officer is expected to follow. The restructuring is intended to reflect the significance of each area.

The Regional Transportation District has installed a “live look-in system” on all buses, letting police dispatchers see and hear people, situations and events onboard in real-time. The move, which began last year, is aimed at increasing safety.

One business professor at the University of Colorado Denver is trying to woo students outside of computer science to the field of cybersecurity with a video game intended to make the subject more engaging.

The city’s approach can best be described as informal, the auditor said, particularly when it comes to oversight of independent city agencies or cultural facilities that operate on subnetworks.

Artificial intelligence isn’t everywhere yet, but several local governments around the country have either discovered how it can further enable modern 311 or are considering how it could.

Facing book bans and programming controversies, an increasing number of libraries are publishing data dashboards for transparency, public accountability and strategic focus.