Skills, whether technical or soft, are increasingly becoming the measuring stick for the workforce of the United States. As the higher education system and other government entities prepare people for the jobs of the future, they will need insight into the latest workforce trends as well as opportunities to retrain their own workers and accelerate their digital transformation as organizations—especially as the country appears headed for...

Increasing digital initiatives and cloud adoption fundamentally alter the job of network operations. While NetOps teams have historically focused on rolling out traditional on-premises infrastructures, they now must support applications that are operated by third parties and require a different set of skills. Understanding user experience can be a moving target in such a highly decentralized and hybrid enterprise world. As a result, network te...

Emergency communications centers are being overwhelmed by data. Managing all of this data internally is a challenging proposition alone, but even more difficult than that is being able to share specific pieces of mission-critical information in a timely manner in the right format to the right person. The answer to this common problem is new data interoperability software powered by the cloud. A cloud-based approach can address the particular c...

How would you rate the infrastructure in your community? If you’re like most of the respondents in a recent survey conducted by the Center for Digital Government, it could use some help. The good news is that help is on the way in the form of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA). The challenge is knowing how to navigate federal funding and make sure you’re investing it effectively in your community. During this free we...

Agencies today can use video and image analytics solutions to act as 24/7 eyes and ears in the field. By capturing images and then immediately applying analytics at the edge, these solutions can trigger manual or automated responses. For example, multiple agencies could automatically be alerted about an accident on the road ahead or a public works department could be alerted that a waste bin needs to be emptied. Video analytics can also give a...

Mid-sized local governments report that staff shortages and a lack of data literacy are their biggest challenges when it comes to data governance. This is just one takeaway from a recent Center for Digital Government survey looking at data governance policies, tools, and challenges in mid-sized cities and counties. Join Government Technology on August 16 at 11 a.m. Pacific/2 p.m. Eastern as we unpack results from the survey and discuss best pr...

Data combined with analytics can be a uniquely valuable asset for state and local government. But many agencies are missing this massive opportunity, as their data is scattered, siloed and difficult to access. Join Government Technology on Wednesday, July 27 at 10 a.m. Pacific/ 1:00 p.m. Eastern to learn how a data-in-motion platform can help your organization put data where it can best be used to deliver new insights and predict future outcom...

By embracing cloud deployments, higher education institutions can add flexibility and control to their environments as data is easily backed up, shared and maintained. Utilizing today’s cloud-based solutions helps support a modern landscape that embraces working from anywhere and stresses the importance of security. As with any infrastructure enhancement, investments are necessary to see future results. Wherever your organization current...

For about 20 years, the Internet Storm Center has offered terabytes of data to the community to help you understand attacks you are seeing and assist you in augmenting your logs or, as we often put it, "add color" to your network logs. In this keynote, we will introduce some of our volunteer handlers who contribute their insight in daily diaries (you will also learn why we call it a "dairy" and not a "blog"). In addition, we will walk you thro...

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) allocates billions of dollars for state and local governments as they strive to close the digital divide.Though each state is promised at least $100 million, additional money will be distributed based on a complicated series of calculations and other information that applicants submit. Including all possible helpful data can give agencies a boost as they seek to unlock IIJA funding.During a li...