Better data management makes digital services shine
Better data management makes digital services shine
Emerging Tech
When data science shortcuts are a bad idea
Auto-ML can help non-data scientists write programs, but the resulting applications may be flawed, biased or useless, an expert says. Still, agencies can minimize risk and optimize the use of citizen data scientists.
Data & Analytics
Where states can learn to turn data into decisions
The Data Labs program helps participating states design data projects that deliver operational efficiency and improved services.
Cloud & Infrastructure
How to solve customer-service language barriers with virtual queuing
COMMENTARY | Customizing user experience into the languages that most represent a community’s needs creates more equitable access to important government services.
Sponsor Content
Disaster Recovery System in Baton Rouge Prioritizes Data Storage
By increasing its data storage capabilities, the city of Baton Rouge ensured critical information is always accessible to first responders, even during an outage.
Emerging Tech
IBM, NASA will use AI to improve climate change research
The research will use IBM’s artificial intelligence technology and NASA’s Earth and geospatial science data to make climate data more accessible to data scientists, policy makers and the public.
Public Safety
Report: 6 keys for successful government crisis contact centers
When natural disasters or emergencies arise, agencies must be able to respond effectively to public inquiry, and technology is key.
Data & Analytics
As pandemic-era Medicaid provisions lapse, millions approach a coverage cliff
Now, states face steep challenges: making sure they don’t disenroll people who are still entitled to Medicaid and connecting the rest to other sources of coverage.
Cloud & Infrastructure
More details emerge on NYC free internet pilot
Residents in Section 8 housing in the Bronx and Upper Manhattan will be covered by a wireless mesh network under the program announced by Mayor Eric Adams.
Emerging Tech
Lack of emerging tech framework is 'weakening' US stance against China, lawmakers warn
Both Democrats and Republicans said Congress needs to craft national frameworks around data privacy and autonomous vehicles to counter China’s global tech ambitions.
Data & Analytics
Dashboard helps city track diversity, equity, inclusion progress
Philadelphia’s workforce diversity dashboard collects and visualizes demographic data on city employees.
Sponsor Content
5 Ways State and Local Governments Deliver Superior Services and Insights with Snowflake
This ebook explores five of the many ways our public sector state and local government customers are securely unlocking the value of data to improve service delivery and operational efficiency with Snowflake.
Cloud & Infrastructure
10 steps to future water sustainability
Municipal water managers can harness new technologies that will adapt to changes in how water is understood, managed and shared.
Data & Analytics
Data sharing initiatives slowly gaining traction
The majority of agencies still don’t share data, partly due to a lack of clarity on how to use all the information they collect, a new report finds.
Cloud & Infrastructure
Va. regulators propose easing emission limits for data centers over power transmission concerns
Roughly 150 data centers in Fairfax, Loudoun and Prince William could be impacted through end of July.
Data & Analytics
Is it forensics or is it junk science?
Dubious forensic techniques have spread throughout the criminal justice system for decades. Here’s what ProPublica has learned about junk forensic science techniques and how they proliferate.
Data & Analytics
Urban heat map reveals priority spots for cooling efforts
Citizen scientists in Milwaukee collected air temperature and humidity data to help state officials focus where heat prevention efforts are most needed.
Cloud & Infrastructure
Energy Department wants national labs to drive regional innovation
DOE is looking for ideas on how regional ecosystems could leverage a nearby national lab to power innovation and economic prosperity.
Cloud & Infrastructure
Tribal broadband grants need better metrics
More quantifiable performance goals would help the Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program better track internet adoption, GAO said.
Cloud & Infrastructure
‘Ghost buses’ haunt transit agencies and frustrate riders
Transit agencies should release canceled or delayed bus data to the public to avoid unhappy travelers, experts say.
Cybersecurity
Ransomware victims stand up to attackers
The drop in payments is encouraging, but a lack of transparency around ransomware reporting makes it hard to say why organizations refuse to pay, researchers say.
Data & Analytics