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Officials have formally named Bryce Bailey the state’s chief information security officer, elevating him from the interim role after nearly a month in place. Cybersecurity, he said, “is a long game.” -
Elizabeth Crowe, the city’s director of urban analytics and innovation, has been selected to serve as interim chief innovation and technology officer, a role formerly held by Stephanie Wernet.
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Tekquell Watson has more than 25 years of military and federal experience, including senior technical and leadership roles. She will oversee technology operations across the consolidated city-county government.
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Building on lessons learned from the program’s past, this year’s iteration will see the national civic tech group more closely integrating its fellowship program with its network of hyper-local brigades.
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With titles like “head of product” and “head of design and user Experience,” California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposed job titles are rooted in the private sector instead of state government’s civil service manual.
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Florence, Ariz., and India-based Subex are partnering on an Internet of Things initiative to advance end-to-end cybersecurity, while at the same time teaching residents about how they can secure their own technology.
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The city's mayor and board of aldermen met behind closed doors in executive session during a specially called meeting Wednesday morning to conduct interviews with candidates for the IT position.
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GT editors looked at data on more than 200 state chief information officers to find out average tenure, gender balance and what their resumes have in common. Tune in for our insights on surprises hiding in the data.
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Saini tendered his resignation as New York City's IT Commissioner and CIO June 13. The former Atlanta CIO was tapped to lead the Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications in January 2018.
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“We’re not replacing humans,” said Eric Sellman, vice president for Twin Cities-based Mortenson. “We want to take a proactive step to deal with the labor shortage ... and give our teams have the latest tools to deal with that.”
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SponsoredLocal government IT teams are realizing—and working to address—a critical skill gap in the area of cybersecurity.
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City council members said they were troubled to learn that the city’s information technology officials did not have a working relationship with their counterparts at the Maryland Department of Information Technology.
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Chief Information Officer Jim Purcell will cease to be the acting secretary of the Office of Information Technology on July 1 after two years in the position. Marty Redden will take over as acting secretary.
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Meixell, who served for more than five years of tech and innovation work for the city, will be joining the region’s county government as enterprise data architect.
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Humans still have an edge over non-Hollywood AI in several key areas that are essential to journalism, including complex communication, expert thinking, adaptability and creativity.
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Axon, known for its body cameras and TASER products, is branching into the emergent technology arena in the hopes it will change the dynamics between officers and those experiencing a mental health crisis.
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A transformation two years in the making is about to change Gov. Asa Hutchinson's cabinet and state government as a whole. CIO Yessica Jones says the shift should make it easier to drive IT projects forward.
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Rupert Ross of St. Croix has been tapped to lead the Bureau of Information Technology, taking over the position from acting Director Angelo Riddick, according to a press release from Gov. Albert Bryan Jr.’s office.
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Idaho's Incident Response Program will be implemented statewide via WebEOC for state agencies and local governments to identify cyberthreats in a standardized and quantifiable format.
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The program, which has consistently created public-private partnerships to develop tech-oriented solutions to government hurdles, announced some of its latest partnership results this week.
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The Dallas Area Rapid Transit agency is in the search for its first chief innovation officer, following a trend by other transit agencies to include innovation as a core mission and to reverse recent declines in ridership.
