Microsoft, Chicago team up to provide digital skills training

Ashkan Soltani, who worked for the FTC during the Obama administration, will lead the new California Privacy Protection Agency, created last year to enforce the state's data-privacy laws.

The firm's executives said the funding will pay for expansion into the federal market and development of new statistical models.

The city adopted a new data governance model in an effort to establish clear, long-term data-sharing and use policies throughout the city.

The civic-tech giant is growing again with the purchase of Detroit-based Arx, which makes data tools used by police departments.

Joshua Cinnamo, a data center project manager with Minnesota IT Services, represented the United States in shot put at the Tokyo Paralympics.

The report's author encouraged state chief information officers to continue improving their data governance to support decision making across a broad range of policy areas.

Officials said a pair of new initiatives are geared toward helping residents better understand the city's digital services and open data.

The Michigan Department of Corrections last week announced a new partnership aimed at using the state’s data to further lower its recidivism rate.

Virginia Tech researchers are building a statewide broadband coverage map that they say will be more accurate than what's provided by the FCC.

Officials believe eight terabytes of data, including criminal evidence, was permanently lost when a city worker accidentally deleted it in an incident that was not publicly disclosed for four months.