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Cloud & Infrastructure
City builds a future-facing tech foundation
Coral Gables, Florida, wants its applications to be state-of-the-art, evergreen, user-centric, cloud-based, mobile-accessible and horizontally integrated.
Cloud & Infrastructure
Damage assessment tool streamlines data collection for disaster prep, response, recovery
The latest version of Accela’s damage assessment cloud service automates reporting and permitting workflow processes and uses external data to help municipalities identify the areas and structures most at risk.
Cybersecurity
Phishing defense, one simulated email at a time
With a platform that trains staff not to click on links in seemingly relevant emails, San Francisco cut the click rate on test emails by 50% in the first 18 months.
Cloud & Infrastructure
IoT network streamlines state DOT traffic monitoring
With a cloud-based network management platform and cellular routers, the Indiana Transportation Department can easily monitor its statewide network of internet-of-things devices.
Cybersecurity
Why you should consider outcome-based security
Agencies can better align their cybersecurity and business priorities when they have affordable risk management solutions that deliver measurable results.
Data & Analytics
Building better maps with open data on building heights
To inform broadband buildouts, positioning of solar panels and development of digital twins, state and local agencies can now tap into open building height data.
Cloud & Infrastructure
County’s integrated platform delivers client-focused social services
With HSD Dynamics, Maricopa County can easily share data with APIs, track metrics and automate manual tasks to ensure residents get the services they need.
Emerging Tech
Digital twins for cities promising, yet problematic
Complex systems like digital twins pose both technical and adaptive challenges, so communities must ensure they have both the right technology and the people with skills to use and maintain them, a new IDC report advises.
Emerging Tech
Engagement, access, equity drive city’s evolution
Waterloo, Iowa, has 12 smart city projects lined up based on four pillars: e-government, sustainability, transportation and public safety.
Emerging Tech
ChatGPT can rapidly build solutions for network defense
A new report outlines how the generative AI tool can quickly build scripts to thwart attackers and identify security vulnerabilities, but stresses that secure and responsible use of the evolving technology is essential.
Cloud & Infrastructure
Wildlife management migrates to the cloud
Utah’s Division of Wildlife Resources relies on cloud services to process the massive amounts of location data it needs to analyze real-time movements of elk.
Cloud & Infrastructure
Cloud security gap: Shadow, orphan and democratized data
When agencies can’t keep track of data across their cloud environment, they expose even more entry points to attackers.
Cloud & Infrastructure
State and local agencies weigh procurement outsourcing
Facing a shrinking workforce and a largely paper-based procurement processes, more public sector agencies are pushing routine purchasing tasks to third parties.
Emerging Tech
Buyer beware: Avoid immature AI solutions
Given the sensitivity of the data state and local governments handle, procurement officers must educate themselves on the fundamentals of artificial intelligence and use caution when considering AI services.
Emerging Tech
Smarter local airports via digital twins
Digital twins can help airport planners effectively manage future renovation projects, monitor daily operations and visualize future scenarios.
Cloud & Infrastructure
How regions can pivot from carbon- to tech-based economies
Shifting a regional economy is a long-term commitment that requires data-based strategies, economic and racial inclusion and significant, sustained investment in education, a recent report says.
Data & Analytics
AI project targets hidden tax shelters
By flagging unintended consequences of changes to tax policies, AI researchers hope to shut down tax shelters used by sophisticated tax dodgers.
Emerging Tech
Smart city lab tests IoT network to protect pedestrians, cyclists
Integrating both cars and pedestrians into an internet-of-things ecosystem ensures vulnerable road users are seen and drivers are alerted to their presence.
Public Safety
VR drives next-gen situational awareness for public safety
The winner of NIST’s challenge developed a digital twin of a command center that gives remote users access to the center’s large-format video walls and 3D tools through a head-mounted display.
Cybersecurity