Moving a smaller city or county’s back-office licensing and permit processes into the modern age may seem like a trivial way to increase government efficiency. But according to Michael Togyi, vice president of marketing and sales for BasicGov, it can play an essential role in managing economic development and citizen interaction. And with his solution, [...]
A new report by INPUT finds that several pieces of federal legislation will have profound impacts for the state and local government market. Emerging technologies such as cloud computing, virtualization, and open source software stand to benefit the most given the prospect of healthcare reform, federal security and transparency mandates.
According to reports from today’s Des Moines Register, Iowa chief information officer, John Gillispie, has decided to leave Iowa for work in Missouri. Mr. Gillispie will take over as director of the Missouri Research and Education Network, the Iowa daily said.
California and the federal government stand to realize a combined cost avoidance of more than $20 million dollars annually through the implementation of a state electronic benefit transfer (EBT) program, officials said Monday. According to the program’s vendor, Affiliated Computer Services, the seven-year contract will also include a number data and call center services.
Earlier this month, Department of Homeland Secretary Janet Napolitano announced the creation of a initiative meant to give police, fire, and rescue personnel access to information during emergencies. The program is called Virtual USA and it will allow first responders across all levels of state, local, federal and tribal government to share location and status [...]
Los Angeles city employees have ‘gone Google’ for their e-mail and other applications. And according to city officials, the cloud computing solution will have far-reaching benefits for all public sector agencies in the state.
Last week, the Department of Transportation’s Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA) announced a $14 million award to San Diego and Dallas to deploy technologies meant to reduce congestion and enhance traffic management. As part of the Integrated Corridor Management (ICM) initiative, the cities’ transportation departments will work with RITA to show how technology can [...]
From periodic student assessments, to hourly attendance, K-12 schools generate a tremendous amount of raw data, yet many schools rarely use that data to its fullest potential, Tyler Technologies’ Mark Rigsby said in an interview with CivSource last week. Last month, the Obama administration announced a $4.3 billion education reform initiative called Race to the [...]
A new report by market research firm INPUT finds that open-source software, virtualization and geospatial technology are among the top emerging trends about to make it big on the federal stage. But tops on the 2009-2014 list of Emerging Technology Markets in the U.S. Federal Government is cloud computing, expected to be worth $1.2 billion [...]
Last January, Governor Patrick called for the establishment of an IT Collaborative, comprised of leaders from private industry, academia and government to advance policy and design an agenda to enhance the state’s IT sector. Monday, Gov. Patrick and others announced results of a study finding that the Commonwealth’s IT industry is a key component to [...]
