Oregon has unveiled a new website Oregon Advantage which is designed to help business owners find financial support to grow their businesses in Oregon. The website also highlights Oregon’s competitive advantages and provides networking opportunities for local business owners. The website will be hosted by Business Oregon, the state’s business development agency.
This week, HIMSS11 took place in Orlando, Florida. The state and local government market was atwitter with health IT, electronic health records, health information exchanges and one thing many vendors interested in the health insurance market will be watching is an announcement today by HHS’s consumer information and insurance head, Steve Larsen.
Despite please from the Governor’s office, New Hampshire’s House of Representatives voted to end the state’s involvement in a regional cap-and-trade program 246 – 104. Proponents of the bill said original involvement in the carbon trading program was based on unproven scientific assumptions about global warming. Meanwhile those voting against repeal cited the economic benefits [...]
As the protests in Wisconsin continue and spill over into other states including Indiana and Ohio some governors are trying to quell any potential actions in their state by making statements of support for local unions. Yesterday, Hawaii Governor Neil Abercrombie submitted his budget along with a statement about Hawaii’s approach to state workers unions.
Every day, users from all over the world log on to ArcGIS Online and contribute mapping data to the worldwide base map. This base map serves as one of the largest authoritative base maps available. However, for users with sensitive data, building on and contributing to a public map may not be possible. Recently, at [...]
According to a new report, the state and local market for justice, public safety and homeland security technology will see an influx of $800 million in new spending over the next five years. Law enforcement officials looking to adopt both cutting-edge and back-office solutions ranging from predictive analytics to court case automation will push the [...]
Last week, President Obama traveled to Marquette County, Michigan to unveil a nationwide, high-speed wireless plan. The initiative received applause from a handful of governors who said the expansion would benefit their local economies and benefit efforts to build out the National Public Safety Broadband Network for first responders.
This week, Alexandria, Virginia launched a new twist on challenge based citizen engagement with ACTion Alexandria. ACTion Alexandria is an online citizen engagement initiative, that on the surface looks similar to other online idea platforms such as UserVoice or IdeaScale. However, unlike these off-the-shelf solutions, ACTion Alexandria leveraged its history as an offline organizing group [...]
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is revamping how rural Americans will gain access to broadband. On February 8, the commission set up an official rulemaking proceeding to overhaul the Universal Service Fund to try and make rural broadband more affordable. According to an announcement on Tuesday, the FCC identified 39 states that have areas without [...]
Getting face time with the boss when it comes to information security is a hard thing to do in government. Much like the electricity that keeps lights on in our homes, we only begin to think of cyber security when there is a breach or a high-volume displacement of data. CivSource recently sat down with [...]
