AI, budget and accessibility are rising concerns for state CIOs
Doug Robinson, executive director of the National Association of State Chief Information Officers, says AI ascended rapidly to the top of the group's annual list of priorities.
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Each Wednesday, StateScoop’s Priorities Podcast explores the latest in state and local government technology news and analysis. Listen to in-depth conversations with government and industry’s top executives, and learn about trending stories affecting state and local IT leaders ranging from modernization and digital accessibility to the latest advances in generative artificial intelligence.
‘Friends’ helped North Carolina 911’s call centers withstand Hurricane Helene
Pokey Harris, excecutive director of the North Carolina 911 Board, says the redundancy built into the state's next-generation 911 system helped the state withstand outages during a…
‘Fear and excitement’ are driving AI discourse in government
Lilian Coral, vice president of New America's technology and democracy programs, and Neil Kleiman, urban policy professor at Northeastern University’s public policy school, review a recent report…
Inside Washington state’s award-winning procurement and innovation programs
Wendy Wickstrom, of WaTech, and Nicholas Stowe, Washington state's outgoing chief technology officer, share how a procurement challenge and an innovation and modernization program are ensuring the…
The shutdown led states to ‘fundamentally rethink’ their relationships with the federal government
Justin Marlowe, professor at the University of Chicago's public policy school, says the government shutdown has accelerated a decades-long trend of states relying less on the federal…
Redesigning a ‘repetitive and clunky’ learning program with AI
Indiana’s Robert Fulk shares how AI fueled a training program revamp. Results for America’s Patrick Carter shares why he thinks evidence-based policymaking is on the rise.
How Kansas lost the ‘weird shortcodes’ and modernized its UI system
Kansas Labor Secretary Amber Shultz outlines a two-year project that transformed the state's unemployment insurance system.
What happens to disaster relief during a shutdown?
Ratna Dougherty, an assistant professor at the University of South Florida, discussed the impact of the federal government shutdown on FEMA and disaster relief. The shutdown also…
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Jake Williams is the vice president of content and community for StateScoop and EdScoop. He's spent nearly a decade in the government IT market, covering the ins and outs of state and local government, as well as higher education. He started his journalism career in his native Pennsylvania and has also worked as a reporter for Campaigns & Elections magazine.