San Antonio is getting serious about data governance

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.

"Almost real-time" insights to budgeting data during the COVID-19 pandemic helped the city avoid cutting services or instating furloughs, officials said.

The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga received a $1.37 million grant from the National Science Foundation to build an online portal for smart city researchers to study the city's downtown area.

"City Incubator" at NYU's Open Data Policy Lab promises to help 10 local government technology officials from around the world develop their projects.