State and local governments have a prime opportunity to redesign difficult-to-navigate government processes to better meet the needs of both constituents and internal employees. For many government agencies, the pandemic highlighted key issues: monolithic, inflexible systems that are unable to scale and a dependence on manual processes that relied on human capital. With these lessons learned, governments need to harness flexible and customizab...

The cyberthreat landscape has changed dramatically in the last 12 months. Cybercriminals are increasingly targeting supply chains and industrial control and IoT systems. They are also focusing on ransomware more than ever before as the value of cryptocurrency explodes. At the same time, state and local government employees are working, communicating and interacting in in ways that are different than ever before – taking advantage of remo...

When the city of Ocala, Fla., took the unusual step of turning its electric utility’s fiber-optic network into a municipal broadband service, city leaders had no idea how vital those high-speed Internet connections would become during a pandemic. Join Government Technology and leaders from Ocala on June 30th to hear how the city’s municipal broadband network delivered more than enough bandwidth to support telemedicine, distance lea...

Governments are at a critical moment in history. The pandemic showed the important role technology plays in mobility, connectivity and access to digital services. And with unprecedented stimulus funds flowing from Washington, states and cities have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to invest in the technology infrastructure that will power the American economy for decades to come. Government Technology has invited three high-profile veteran p...

Accounting leaders in state and local government are urgently modernizing accounting. A wave of stimulus funding requires strong budgeting, improved transparency and a real-time view of spending throughout the fiscal year. Rising fraud risk requires government accounting to identify every variance, exception and detail in an environment of increased audit scrutiny. Many accounting departments still don’t know where they are with substant...

Engaging constituents and improving their experience with government are top concerns for state and local government leaders. The critical importance of building strong and trusted relationships between communities and their governments — particularly using digital communication channels and electronic transactions — became even clearer during the past year as jurisdictions navigated the COVID-19 pandemic. Find out how the city of...

As states emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic, technology leaders face significant decisions about the future. The good news is that the value of applying technology to government processes has never been more visible. CIOs and their teams stepped up during the pandemic to deliver critical capabilities to support remote work, digital services, virtual public meetings and more — and they did it with unprecedented speed and agility. What did...

State Medicaid programs face an array of logistical challenges and large transactional volumes. As millions of Americans suffered job losses and declining incomes during the pandemic, more people turned to the government for help in covering their healthcare needs. According to preliminary data from one recent Kaiser Family Foundation survey, national Medicaid and CHIP enrollment grew by 8.6 percent from February 2020 to September 2020. And ne...

Over the last decade, the government technology (GovTech) market has experienced rapid growth and acceleration driven by a perfect storm of market dynamics, including democratized technology infrastructure, reduced friction in the procurement process, increased access to funding for scaling startups, and a growing set of entrepreneurs targeting government as their primary customer. The unprecedented events of 2020 further accelerated these mar...

State and local governments are on the front lines of delivering an economic recovery from the pandemic. The pressure is on to act quickly and decisively. Technology will play a critical role in getting financial help to people who need it, and it’s also an important part of helping government organizations improve accountability, transparency and equity. Join us June 15 at 11 PT/2 ET as we sit down with former Gov. Martin O’Malley...