America’s schools and libraries have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to invest in new connectivity infrastructure that will provide the tools and services their communities need for remote learning. The Emergency Connectivity Fund (ECF), authorized by Congress as part of the American Rescue Plan, provides $7.17 billion for school and library systems to help connect students, staff and library patrons who may lack sufficient internet...

Managing your shared vehicle fleet is an ongoing challenge for cities and counties. Keeping track of available vehicles, scheduling maintenance and monitoring driver access all require significant staff and resources. Unfortunately, many local governments still manage motorpool fleets using outdated technology, requiring repetitive manual entry and other mundane, time-consuming tasks. Keyless technology and a motorpool solution are important...

As government organizations improve the maturity of their DevOps transformations, executive leaders are beginning to question how the people, process, culture and technology changes made during transformation are adding value to their agencies. With a streamlined organization and delivery process in place, why is it still so difficult to deliver innovative, new capabilities at the drop of a hat? What is the long-term value of the transformatio...

Open to Public Sector only. Registration - Free Government Technology's passion is promoting best practices and spurring innovation in the public sector – more important than ever in challenging times like these. The Virtual Digital Government Summit offers a unique opportunity to explore a variety of technology topics and possibilities. Please join us for a day of powerful sessions that provide inspiration, participation, education, and...

As state and local governments turn their attention toward the future, they confront an increasingly complex environment. The challenges and uncertainties facing government organizations are difficult to navigate, and agencies’ legacy processes and workflows are unable to meet the demands of today’s public sector organizations. To improve governance, agencies need to adopt a modern process management approach that optimizes planni...

As communities throughout the country continue on the path of reopening, many government agencies are grappling with what the future of their workforces, modernization efforts and service delivery looks like. Most know this new normal will require a heightened level of performance, resiliency, security and adaptability. Government Technology has been tracking this evolution in state and local government and would like to gather a group of thou...

NYC Health and Hospitals was behind the curve when it came to utilizing its data. Data limitations such as poor quality, disparate data and inconsistencies led to an overall lack of trust in the organization’s performance dashboards and reporting. To become more predictive in patient diagnosis and treatment and deliver the best healthcare and desired business outcomes, NYC Health and Hospitals needed a modernized data infrastructure. Joi...

As the agency that oversees the strategic technology direction for the second-largest state in the U.S. that constitutes a mix of rural and urban communities, the Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR) holds a big responsibility when it comes to cybersecurity. With cyberattacks against state and local government increasing exponentially during the pandemic, DIR leaders have stayed on the leading edge of threat defense to ensure Texas...

During this four-part Master Class series, you will be joining Government Technology and Tanium to learn how to develop and deploy a future-proof cybersecurity strategy in state and local government. In this third session, Center for Digital Government Senior Fellow Deb Snyder and Tanium CISO Chris Hallenbeck will cover the steps involved in successfully implementing a cybersecurity strategy. Register now for a discussion around critical topic...

Always a top priority in state and local government, the need for better cybersecurity has been magnified even more during the pandemic as opportunistic hackers take advantage of a remote public sector workforce and overwhelmed systems trying to keep pace with heightened citizen demand. Agency leaders trying to boost their cybersecurity posture in this environment face a dual-pronged challenge: a lack of resources and staff to address the evol...