Kentucky gets new technology commissioner
Mike Inman will lead the Governor's Office for Technology and direct the state's technology services.
Online app gauges Colorado rainfall
What began as a program in one Colorado man's basement'with data from volunteer ranchers checking rain gauges in their yards and mailing postcards of measurements'has grown into an online application.
New York maps services for disabled
It started with family requests. Parents of disabled children asked the New York State Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities for an easier way to find services in their area.
Pa. counties seek one voice in crisis
A consortium of emergency workers is testing a Java software tool to save precious minutes in emergencies.
Connecticut emergency calls go via satellite
Connecticut's Public Health Department, like many health departments after Sept. 11, 2001, wanted to bolster its emergency communications.
Web tool speeds services for at-risk youth in Mich.
Web collaboration software is part of a move toward more-unified forms and documents for rural county.
New York maps services for disabled
The state is making GIS information available online that lets New Yorkers find support services for the mentally retarded and disabled.
Delaware adopts statewide data backup strategy
The First State is saving money and boosting uptime by centralizing its backup systems and network services.
Hawaii says aloha to new, integrated data mart
There was trouble in paradise.Hawaii's legacy Financial Accounting and Management Information System (FAMIS), developed by KPMG Peat Marwick of New York in the 1980s, had 'a lot of data, but it was very inaccessible,' said Lester Nakamura, administrator for the Information and Communication Services Division of Hawaii's Accounting and General Services Department. Data was stowed mainly in old IBM VSAM files.
Kentucky county saves $100K per year with VOIP
IT officials in Campbell County, Ky., didn't think they were asking too much. They wanted to switch from analog phones to a voice over IP phone system to link the county's 20 departments.
Hawaii says aloha to late financial reports
State builds an integrated data mart for financial data.<br>
Prisoner transfer app relies on .Net
Corrections officials in Wisconsin counties are saving money and aggravation with software developed using Microsoft Corp.'s .Net services to monitor prisoner transfers between courts, jails and other correctional facilities.
Nebraska city Palms one off on its employees
From monitoring fauna and flora to keeping children safe, Lincoln, Neb., handles many core city functions wirelessly with handheld PCs.Four years ago, the city gave its animal control officers Palm VII handheld computers from palmOne Inc. of Milpitas, Calif. The handhelds connect to the city's IBM Corp. mainframe, which houses rabies vaccination information and tag numbers of all registered pets as well as pets with a record of vicious conduct.
California CIO works to rebuild trust in his team
Faced with the wreckage of a collapsed IT department, a government teetering on bankruptcy and a new boss whose most famous role is as an evil cyborg, California CIO <b>J. Clark Kelso</b> still sees his state as 'the land of dreams and innovation. We've overcome challenges before.'
Wireless networking the focus of public safety communication
Wireless makes gains in public safety communications systems for local governments.<br>
D.C. to create public-safety command post
The District of Columbia this month broke ground on a Unified Communications Center on the campus of St. Elizabeths Hospital in southeast Washington.
Santa Clara Co. consolidates Web sites to save
Santa Clara County, home to California's Silicon Valley, was hit hard by the dot-com bust. High unemployment led citizens to seek more services at the same time the county government is downsizing.<br>
D.C. center to unify public-safety services
Unified Communications Center will serve as a hub for 911 calls, nonemergency calls, the mayor's call center and the D.C. Emergency Management Agency.<br>
Hybrid software deflects attackers with guile
Fremont, Calif., a Silicon Valley city of 200,000, doesn't sound like a top target for network hacks. But when war began last spring in Iraq, the city's Web site, at <a href="http://www.ci.fremont.ca.us">www.ci.fremont.ca.us</a>, received scores of hits from locations in the Middle East.
Wisconsin prisoners tracked by .Net
Corrections officials in Wisconsin counties are saving money and aggravation on prisoner transfers with software developed using Microsoft .Net.<br>
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