Infrastructure is what makes cities livable and prosperous. It’s the roads, bridges, buildings, stoplights, schools, broadband lines and more that make communities work. These critical assets impact our lives every day and connect us in ways large and small. What if your city could gain a deeper understanding of the infrastructure it has today and what it needs to build tomorrow? On Nov. 30, Government Technology will host a live webcast...

Everyone knows technology alone cannot keep organizations safe in the face of a cybersecurity attack. Human risk and human error still represent the biggest security gap for state and local governments. And it’s getting harder and harder to close that gap. Adversaries have grown increasingly sophisticated in their efforts to exploit users in phishing attacks. Social media and other technologies provide a wealth of publicly available info...

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...

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...

The Center for Digital Government (CDG) surveyed state and local government leaders and found that nearly half of employees nationally are working in a hybrid environment and half plan to continue to do so at least for the next two years. However, the top challenges respondents face when working from home include background noises and distractions and people not turning on video in meetings, while nearly 50 perent of those working in the offic...

It’s an exciting time for urban transit. While the early disruptions of the pandemic decimated transportation networks in many cities, transit leaders are ready to build back stronger and smarter. They’re eager for new solutions and new technologies that can transform the urban transit experience, making it safer, more effective and more efficient. But transit agencies face numerous obstacles in maintaining and improving transporta...

Every constituent-facing transaction has a back-office function associated with it, whether it’s related to finance and budgeting, human resources management, resource allocation and planning, or compliance and auditing. But when these critical functions rely on a patchwork of on-premises legacy systems, government agencies can face cybersecurity and business continuity challenges. On Nov. 16 at 10am Pacific, join Government Technology a...

The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART) is a heavy-rail public transit system that extends across five Northern California counties, has 50 stations located on 131 miles of track, and carries thousands of passengers every day. A recent move to a cloud-based data and analytics platform empowered employees to conduct their own analyses and create dashboards for insights into everything from ridership patterns to preventative mai...

COVID-19 was the impetus for the public sector’s move to virtual meetings and collaboration tools. But rather than being a temporary fix, these technologies have more than proven their worth. Employees gained back time by not having to travel to in-person meetings. Constituents could better weave appointments like social worker visits into their lives. Residents were able to engage with their governments through online public meetings. H...

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...