How and where people work is evolving and will likely continue to evolve. To build resilient state and local governments that can navigate this changing landscape, agencies need strategies that can help them: Become an employer of choice Remove barriers to smarter, more effective government To compete with the private sector for top talent, the public sector needs tools that make secure and collaborative hybrid work simple and seamless. And to...

Open to Public Sector only. Government Technology’s passion is helping spread best practices and spurring innovation in the public sector. The Minnesota Digital Government Summit is designed to do just that. The summit has an advisory board that gathers public sector and private sector leaders to create an agenda that is relevant and actionable to the state and local government organizations attending the summit. Participants can take ad...

As state governments look to technology to improve service delivery to citizens, it will mean changing the way that agencies and departments operate, organize, budget, and buy in the future. These changes will be accelerated with the growing use of AI tools and capabilities. Is state government ready for the use of AI? How will the business need to change and adapt? What are the pitfalls and what policies and regulations are needed? What role...

Imagine this scenario: Your state or locality can map when and where violence is most likely to happen. With this knowledge, officials and local leaders concentrate resources in those hotspots. The additional community support results in fewer incidents requiring responder dispatch and decreased crime levels. Sound too good to be true? It’s not. In fact, this is exactly what’s happening in Wilmington, Delaware. Determined to find a...

Government procurement is complex, high-stakes, time-sensitive, and too important to be left to inefficient systems like emails, spreadsheets, and shared drives. Most digital procurement solutions on the market only offer so much benefit to agencies, though. Many of these systems can't adapt as technology changes – meaning they are challenging to update, quickly become difficult to use, and ultimately become obsolete. Modernizing procure...

As agencies move ahead on bigger, bolder, more foundational cloud migration efforts, it’s critical for them to develop a comprehensive strategy. The right approach can help keep cloud migration projects on track, on budget and within scope. And it can help government leaders identify new opportunities for cloud solutions. In this conversation from the Center for Digital Government, we’ll look at the key elements of a smart strategy...

The Digital Government Summit brings together technology focused public-sector professionals with leading industry partners to connect on innovative approaches, get inspired and discover new technologies. Join us and let’s improve the future of government together!

The forthcoming National Cybersecurity Strategy is perhaps the federal government’s biggest, boldest effort ever to reimagine and strengthen the country’s cyber defenses. Some of the themes across the strategy include modernization, stronger public-private collaboration and a ‘whole-of-nation’ cybersecurity approach. Priorities from the national plan will undoubtedly take some time to implement in state and local govern...

The Digital Government Summit brings together technology focused public-sector professionals with leading industry partners to connect on innovative approaches, get inspired and discover new technologies. Join us and let’s improve the future of government together! Open to Public Sector only.

Change is an inevitable part of governance and state and local government leaders know this all too well. The way public-sector agencies operate, how their employees work and what constituents expect from them remains in almost constant flux, which means government leaders must frequently adapt to a new normal. A prime example of this is the labor shortage. Due to societal changes like the pandemic, social justice movements and the global slow...