Local Government

After five years of leading improvements to resident, business and visitor digital experience for the city and county of San Francisco, Carrie Bishop has announced plans to depart from the position March 4.

Waze, a navigation app owned by Google, has partnered with Norfolk, Va., to pilot an app that will allow drivers to get real-time information about flooded roads. The alert system was set up Monday.

Through a survey, the city of Eagle, Idaho, is now gauging citizen interest in a community-owned fiber system that would promote competition between multiple broadband providers through an open access network.

Tisch told colleagues she would keep serving the city under the Adams administration. Her departure comes as the city reportedly plans to reorganize its IT agencies and follows just weeks after CTO John Paul Farmer’s exit.

According to a transparency activist, a large amount of data stolen from the Chattanooga Area Chamber of Commerce in a December hack could be going to the highest bidder on the Internet.

Broward Health, a large public health system in Florida, has indicated that a data breach on Oct. 15 resulted in compromised patient and employee data. Broward Health hasn't revealed many details about the breach.

New York City CTO John Paul Farmer has announced his departure from the position. Mayor-elect Eric Adams, who takes office in January, has named NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Information Technology Matt Fraser to the role.

The product launch follows the company’s acquisition of MUNIRevs and the spinoff of GovOS as a Kofile subsidiary. The tools are designed to help streamline work and reduce errors for local governments.

Internet-based service firms such as Airbnb, Vacasa and VRBO had been bumping up against short-term rental caps in Oregon towns. So they began aggressively soliciting property owners in unincorporated seaside neighborhoods.

Honolulu’s public transportation officials have their hands full with the task of bringing back myriad digital services that were lost after a Dec. 9 ransomware attack. An investigation into the attack continues.

At a summit earlier this month, experts explored policy questions around electric vehicle charging infrastructure. In general, policymakers should look at all levels of charging to serve as many EV use cases as possible.

The Upstate New York city will spend more than $530,000 in federal stimulus money to upgrade its Microsoft software for city workers. The Common Council approved the plan Monday after months of delay.

From online services and cybersecurity to artificial intelligence and virtual reality, these are the highlights from the 55 top-performing jurisdictions in the 2021 Digital Cities Survey.

In 2022, the city of Dublin, Ohio, plans to unveil its digital identity project that allows users to confirm their residency, respond to custom surveys and earn “Dublin Points” through a centralized app.

The city of West Carrollton, Ohio, purchased two drones for $13,000 to aid its fire and police departments. The city thinks the machines can also help with services department inspections that involve dangerous heights.

Multiple federal entities are scouring the country for governments that have fallen prey to the global Log4j software vulnerability, which is considered the worst weak point in recent years by security experts.

Mark Wong, CIO of Honolulu, Hawaii, said all computer networks operated by the city and county are safe, despite a recent ransomware attack that compromised public transit services and other organizations.

Quantum computing strong enough to break traditional encryption methods is looming on the horizon — and federal officials want state and local governments to start planning for that future now.