Data, fines and threats to compel water conservation
California's Las Virgenes Municipal Water District is giving its affluent residents access to their water consumption data to discourage overuse.
Taking Control of Ransomware With a Zero-Trust Strategy
COMMENTARY | Antivirus, sandboxing and similar detection techniques can’t keep up. It’s time for governments and agencies to transform their approach to thwarting malware.
More States Enacting Potentially Conflicting Data Privacy Laws
In the absence of federal legislation, states are regulating the commercial collection and use of personal data, a new report shows.
The Next Frontier in Equity is All About Data
COMMENTARY | Developing strategies centered on data collection is critical for governments to make sure resources are deployed in an effective and equitable way.
Mobile apps help community with annual homeless count
Kansas City and Houston are using mobile apps to more accurately conduct their point in time homelessness counts.
Georgia Moves Voter Registration to the Cloud
The Georgia Registered Voter Information System will be housed on servers that give election officials a more secure and user-friendly system.
Silicon Valley’s New Obsession
A group of tech founders, crypto billionaires, and star scientists is launching a fleet of science labs.
Agencies have 5 years to hire nearly 600,000 workers. Here’s how they can do it.
By reducing application redundancies, streamlining hiring and onboarding and increasing cross-agency data sharing, federal agencies can transform the hiring process to meet current and future needs.
Sparse eviction data challenges Wyoming's rental assistance programs
A records management system upgrade that paused eviction data collection may have contributed to ignorance about the scope of the state's housing problems.
Model Reveals How Misinformation Spreads Like a Virus
Misinformation moves in eerily similar ways.
Can AI-powered Congestion Pricing Improve Transportation Equity?
New research suggests big data and machine learning can create an equitable approach to tolling and improve traffic congestion.
Can AI-powered congestion pricing improve transportation equity?
New research suggests big data and machine learning can create an equitable approach to tolling and improve traffic congestion.
Census 2020 gets its first challenges
Some cities and municipalities are pushing the Census Bureau to correct population counts they say are too low.
Detroit Tests Cloud-enabled Pavement Monitoring
In-vehicle sensors collect and analyze data and send it to the cloud where the city can access it as a GIS layer to see road surface ratings.
Las Vegas taps digital twin for sustainability
With a digital twin, the city can leverage street-level data collected through IoT sensors to model future energy use, emissions, mobility and emergency management.
A Shift Away from Daily COVID Case Counts Has Begun
Public health officials are considering a shift from increasingly inaccurate case data to numbers they say better represent the effect of the disease on the community and the health care system: hospitalizations and deaths.
Top Public Sector Cybersecurity Threat No Longer is Employees
Hackers pose the greatest cyber risks for states and localities, followed by careless workers and foreign governments, according to an annual IT report.
How the AI-Enabled Worker Will Deliver Better Government in 2022
COMMENTARY | AI needs people to maximize its potential.
Tennessee taps evidence-based budgeting for funding decisions
Using clearinghouse data, an evidence framework and internal analytic tools, the state's Office of Evidence and Impact evaluates programs to help decision-makers see whether more funding is warranted.
How to balance self-service analytics and security
Agencies need an an easy way for employees to access data while balancing ongoing privacy and security concerns.
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