In an announcement last week, Oracle said they had signed a deal with the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power (LADWP), to replace its legacy customer information system. The deal comes just days prior to another company announcement, that will make Oracle business intelligence and analytics products more widely available for the utilities sector.
It may seem a trivial thing, but a battle for “bed taxes” that has been brewing between state and local tax collectors and the online travel industry for the better part of a decade shows no signs of slowing. Recent actions in Montana, Oklahoma, New York, California, Maryland and elsewhere join four or five dozen [...]
Mississippi has launched a new website – “Broadband for Mississippi” which provides citizens with a tool that shows the availability of broadband access statewide. The site is part of the state’s effort to increase broadband access. The site provides visitors with information about how broadband can impact their community. It also highlights state initiatives to [...]
The Illinois Governor’s Office of Management and Budget has put its statement of revenue and expenditures online. The statement outlines all of the state’s significant financial activities for fiscal year 2010 and the first quarter of 2011. The statement is the most comprehensive financial overview of agency and fund spending available before annual reports are [...]
The County of Monterey, California has signed a $15 million contract with Harris Corp. to design and deploy a new public safety radio system that will improve coverage, reliability and communication interoperability between local, county, state and federal first responders, the company said Wednesday.
New York is the only state that does not offer early voting, and denies excuse absentee voting, same day registration, online registration or party switch within six months of a primary. According to Mayor Michael Bloomberg, this makes New York’s the most restrictive voting laws in the country. Mayor Bloomberg issued a report yesterday, finding [...]
For the past several months, I have been privileged to be one of 19 people chosen to serve on the Bipartisan Policy Center’s U.S. Debt Reduction Task Force. The Task Force was chaired by former U.S. Senator Peter Domenici, who led the Finance Committee during his 36 years in the Senate, and Dr. Alice Rivlin [...]
The number of public safety interoperable communications (PSIC) projects is expected to increase according to a new report from INPUT. The deadline for projects under the Federal Communications Commission’s narrowbanding initiative is on the horizon and INPUT estimates that state and local spending on PSIC projects will reach $38.7 billion by 2015.
During October, Deloitte and NASCIO worked together on a survey that examined cybersecurity initiatives in state governments nationwide. The report, “State Governments at risk: A Call to Secure Citizen Data and Inspire Public Trust,” painted a grim picture for cybersecurity at the state level. More recently, CivSource spoke with Srini Subramanian director of state government [...]
Despite a dramatic increase in the number of broadband users over the last eight years, wide gaps remain in how the internet is being used among poor and rich households. According to an analysis conducted by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Projects, the internet and related technologies remain much more pervasive for [...]
