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Shawn Smith will step down this month as IT director for Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to join the Tennessee consolidated city-county as its permanent CIO. He replaces an interim CIO who has been in place since mid-2024. -
In 15 years as CIO and director of Information Technology Services, his work was foundational to internal areas like information security — but also to resident-facing services like 311 and free Wi-Fi.
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Plus, Chicago has posted a new RFI related to expanding broadband access throughout the entire city, Pittsburgh has announced a new digital equity coalition, North Carolina has a digital equity grant program and more.
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The Nashville chapter of Blacks In Technology Foundation has launched a three-year pilot program with LocalTek and Tennessee State University to draw upperclassmen to tech fields such as data science and app development.
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Bicycle and transportation researchers in Nashville, Tenn., are pointing to the growing phenomenon of electric bikes as the Music City develops its multimodal approach to transportation.
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Oracle, the second-largest software company in the world, could invest $1.2 billion in a new downtown Nashville office hub that would eventually employ 8,500 people, ranking as a major economic development deal.
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