After Ferguson, Civic Tech Collaborative Helps Residents Navigate Convoluted Criminal Justice System
In St. Louis County, residents—and black residents in particular—often find themselves drowning in questionable fines and fees. Enter YourSTLCourts.
Watch Out for Unclaimed Property Scams, State Officials Warn
State officials are urging residents to be wary of scammers who promise to reunite them with unclaimed property for a fee upfront.
Census director’s resignation could affect control of Congress after 2020
A properly funded census will help ensure accuracy in the number of states’ congressional representatives and votes in the Electoral College.
Can machine learning help secure the IoT?
Machine learning and analytics can spot anomalies in network traffic indicating a compromised device.
The open, efficient, machine-readable government
Information provided in machine-readable formats will begin to restore public trust in government’s ability to uphold the law and deliver on its mission.
In Alabama, a resource map that does so much more
What started as an effort to digitize cultural resources data turned into a project that increased efficiencies for the Alabama National Guard.
A data-driven way to deal with ailing baby boomers
The Social Security Administration is looking for a machine learning and natural language processing solution to help it handle ever more disability claims and hearings.
'Minority Report' moves closer to reality
Big data analytics helps officials identify criminals and terrorists, while virtual reality training improves agencies’ situational awareness and responses.
Warfighter health monitoring via smartphone sensors
DARPA wants a way to keep tabs on the health of warfighters to ensure readiness, identify weaknesses early and avert compromises to missions.
The State and Local Cyber Threat Landscape in Two Reports
Verizon and Symantec’s breach investigations signal that governments are growing targets, and small jurisdictions lacking resources are the most vulnerable.
Message growing clearer to agencies on collaboration apps
To extract the full productivity benefit from collaboration apps, make sure they include features that encourage workers to use and derive value from them.
Online self-service changes citizens’ call center experience
More people are going online for find help before turning to the call center, making the average inquiry more difficult to handle, a new report shows.
Mapping neighborhood-level health indicators
The CDC’s 500 Cities website maps chronic disease indicators at both the city and census-tract level.
Gigapixel image analysis on the fly
The ViSUS data-streaming application can progressively process and display ultra-large image files in real time on consumer hardware.
Debunking the myths on VistA
We need an honest assessment of whether a commercial off-the-shelf electronic health records system can deliver a better result than continued investment in the successful existing platform.
CMS goes all-in on agile
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will integrate agile methodologies across the entire agency to better manage software development in the rapidly evolving health care environment.
Every picture tells a story, but visualization can tell the right one
As data visualizations leverage machine learning, data mining and statistics, they can deliver better insights into big data.
San Diego puts internet, GPS in choppers
A partnership between the city and AT&T puts GPS service and a secure two-way network connection in the Airborne Law Enforcement helicopter fleet.
An Astrophysicist Used NASA Data to Make an Insanely Detailed Map of U.S. Racial Diversity
The map—which allows users to zoom in and check out their neighborhoods—provides a previously unseen view of how the racial composition of neighborhoods is changing in the US.
State officials push tech to combat child porn
The Campaign for Child Rescue encourages the use of advanced technology to locate and rescue children from sexual exploitation and trafficking.
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