Baltimore drafts guidelines for police body cams
A recent draft report addresses the tech concerns cities might have in implementing police body camera programs.
GAO to Census: Tighten up Internet response option
The Census Bureau’s plans to offer the option to use an cloud-based system to respond to the 2020 census is fraught with challenges, says GAO, including insufficient planning for changes in the agency’s IT infrastructure.
Mission critical cloud: Comments due for FedRAMP high
This Friday marks the end of the comment period on the draft requirement that will enable agencies to use cloud environments for high-impact information.
Vapor IO unpacks data center design for the network edge
Vapor IO introduced a modular data center design that features smaller, rounded data cylinders that can be rapidly configured for operations in metropolitan markets or where compute demand shifts rapidly.
Dell updates cloud tool with security analytics, social ID
Dell unveiled a new version of its Cloud Access Manager, an access management tool that taps a new security analytics engine to streamline access to web applications and OpenID Connect-compliant mobile apps.
City streamlines public works requests as part of 311 upgrade
The Elgin, Ill., call center upgrade set the stage for the city to create a workflow and work request system for ‘call before you dig’ requests.
How to keep legacy systems from becoming liabilities
A recently released report from Washington state creates an enterprise-level modernization roadmap to tackle the problem of updating legacy IT systems.
San Francisco focuses IoT platform on energy data streams
San Francisco is acting as anchor to a group of firms mapping real-time building energy usage data as well streaming information from traffic monitors and mobile devices.
Smartvue puts video surveillance in Azure Government cloud
Smartvue has been authorized to use Azure Government, which is part of the Microsoft Cloud for Government, for its military and government video surveillance solutions.
GSA looks to upgrade job vacancy management system
The General Services Administration is researching a software-as-a-service application that would automate its job vacancy management system.
Cities tap Yelp to improve health inspection process
Restaurant hygiene inspection data on Yelp is helping city health inspectors better target offenders and pushing restaurants to clean up their act.
3 paths to efficiency via IT automation
Automation improves operating efficiency and reduces costs, while meeting escalating demands on the IT department and the government agency as a whole.
Unknown clouds in the government enterprise
A new report finds that employees in the average public sector organization actually use 721 cloud services, which is 10 times more than IT departments expect.
Using open data to protect food supply
A roundtable discussion at New York University focused on how the Department of Agriculture can improve national food resiliency and protect the food supply through the use of open data.
AppealsTrak helps agencies streamline UI workflow
Bluewolf’s Salesforce-based solution provides an end-to-end management system that helps agencies streamline manual processes associated with administering unemployment insurance.
How San Diego Plans to Assess the Condition of Nearly 2,800 Miles of City Streets
Mayor Kevin Faulconer wants to fix his city’s streets. But first, the city has to figure out which ones need the most immediate attention.
Cloud-based 311 keeps Philly services agile
Philly 311, built on Salesforce’s cloud computing platform and implemented by Unisys, removes any manual intervention for government workers as they track citizen requests for services.
Cloud-based Web app assists fire response teams
The RECOVER decision support system helps post-forest fire rehabilitation teams respond faster to damaged ecosystems.
Email can be indefinitely recoverable with Office 365
Microsoft’s new policy makes email in the Deleted Items folder accessible indefinitely, or for as long as determined by the email administrator.
How dynamic case management can modernize citizen services
Cloud-based dynamic case management solutions create opportunities for government agencies to meet citizens’ rising expectations for improved services.
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