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Chief Data Officer Christie Burris details how the state is building a data ecosystem where policy meets platform and AI can play a role in evolving traditional data life cycles. -
AI courses in San Jose are helping city employees save thousands of work hours, improving efficiencies and service for residents, while a new Oregon program is familiarizing state workers with generative AI.
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CIO Mark Wixon is committed to leading the South Dakota Bureau of Information and Technology in a way that fulfills its role of helping other state agencies deliver on their unique goals through tech. -
The city of San Francisco is making Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat available to roughly 30,000 employees in an effort to improve services while also launching training to support staff use of the technology.
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Kathryn Darnall Helms served as chief data officer for six years, during which time she helped establish Oregon's first data strategy. The state is beginning a search for her replacement.
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The state’s work with the technology company aims to bring artificial intelligence education and real-world innovation to classrooms, communities and industry. It's intended to bring in jobs as well.
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The state is doing cybersecurity work differently, to keep pace with an evolving IT and security landscape. In-person training exercises and a unique partnership model are helping support statewide readiness.
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Its new Chief Information Security Officer Chris Gergen is a native of the Peace Garden State. He has nearly two decades of cybersecurity expertise and helped stand up the Cyber Operations Center.
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To lure more young people into government technology work, Piccione changed experience requirements on all vacant IT positions, pointing them toward early career applicants.
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Carladenise Edwards, the chief administrative officer for Miami-Dade County, Fla., has taken on the role of interim director of the county’s technology agency, a position held by Margaret Brisbane since 2021.
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Virginia is innovating and building momentum for technology in 2025, from moving to cloud to implementing AI, state CIO Bob Osmond said — aiming to carry that energy into the next gubernatorial administration.
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Plus, Washington state has appointed an interim broadband director, North Carolina has announced new leadership for the Division of Broadband and Digital Opportunity, communities are leading digital adoption efforts, and more.
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An expansion to its IT operating budget is enabling investment in AI tools to create efficiencies and solve challenges. The city’s technology agency plans to hire a chief AI officer and support staff this year.
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Plus, proposed legislation aims to address rural broadband funding issues, states address federal funding cuts and program changes, Spectrum is investing in digital skills training, and more.
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More Hamilton County youth will be able to earn thousands beginning late this summer through a paid internship program, now backed with an additional quarter-million dollars in state funding.
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In naming a new director and deputy director for the New Mexico Office of Broadband Access and Expansion, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham chose two people with federal- and state-level experience in connectivity.
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Michael Toland, Oklahoma’s chief information security officer, will exit the position and officials have embarked upon a search for his replacement. State CIO Dan Cronin will oversee cybersecurity in the interim.
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