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...

We know, we know. This is the 700th email you’ve gotten in the past month about maintaining collaboration in a remote work environment. There’s good reason for that: Remote collaboration is hard! Keeping your team members communicating and engaged with each other is challenging enough in a physical office. Enabling collaboration in a world of hybrid work is exponentially more difficult, and it requires continued attention, flexibil...

The opioid crisis is shifting, not ending. The CDC's National Center for Health Statistics estimated that more than 100,000 drug overdose deaths occurred in the United States between April 2020 to April 2021, an increase of 28.5% from the same period the year before. As states continue to clamp down on abuse of legal prescriptions, the prevalence and variety of opioids and other illegal drugs continues to grow. These drugs and associated drug...

States are leveraging their purchasing power and implementing advanced alternative payment models to improve healthcare value. For example, the state of Texas offers an opt-in procurement collaborative across all school districts, Colorado created a private-public employer purchasing collaborative and its Medicaid agency is implementing mandatory payment models, and the state of Washington has a single Health Care Authority that oversees the s...

The nature of work changes all the time. Fax machines give way to email. Top-down edicts fall out of favor; collaborative teams take the stage. New technology makes it easier to work from home. Automation replaces menial data entry and frees employees to focus on strategic initiatives. But nothing in modern history has impacted the nature of work more than COVID-19. The disruptions of the pandemic uprooted everything we thought we knew about t...

Join us for a real-world conversation on how government finance is evolving — and how leading local government jurisdictions are responding to these changes. On May 11, Governing, Workday and Accenture will host a panel of public sector finance leaders to talk about how their organizations are meeting new demands today, how they’re preparing for the future and what role technology plays in supporting these efforts. Our distinguishe...

Boomers retiring. Gen Xers ascendent. Millennials stepping into new roles. Gen Z looking for the right skills to enter the marketplace. Workforce demographics are shifting rapidly across all industries, including state and local government. As agencies look to hire new employees – and keep current workers motivated and engaged – they need new strategies to address new challenges. In this virtual conversation on April 21, part of a...

During the pandemic, many social services programs were forced to modernize to get assistance to those in need faster. While these efforts brought short-term success, they also demonstrated the importance of phased approaches to longer term transformation. Instead of embarking on a multi-year, complex and monolithic effort, agencies can take a new, modular approach to social services modernization to automate everything from eligibility to pay...

During the pandemic, many social services programs were forced to modernize to get assistance to those in need faster. While these efforts brought short-term success, they also demonstrated the importance of phased approaches to longer term transformation. Instead of embarking on a multi-year, complex and monolithic effort, agencies can take a new, modular approach to social services modernization to automate everything from eligibility to pay...

This virtual briefing is open to Techwire members only. The State of California budget is always massive and filled with technology spending. Join Techwire Publisher, Alan Cox, and the Center for Digital Government Deputy Chief Innovation Officer, Joe Morris, for an in-depth look at the budget and where the technology opportunities can be found.