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When it Comes to Video Collaboration, "Good Enough" isn't Good Enough. Perfecting the Idea of Smart City. Otto Doll, CIO, City of Minneapolis People want to feel safe, connected, and want their privacy maintained—not only in the physical world, but also in the online space.

Perfecting the Idea of Smart City

Along with the rising security concerns, another challenge for the local government, today, is to ‘innovate with residents’ rather than ‘innovate for residents’. Government agencies in the City of Minneapolis are trying to achieve several milestones by innovating on various fronts using technology. The Increasing Value of Cyber Threat Intelligence. Thomas Gresham, Acting Director, Business Information and Technology, San Diego Unified Port District Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) is becoming a critical component in an organization’s overall risk mitigation strategy.

The Increasing Value of Cyber Threat Intelligence

In recent years, the use of threat intelligence has gained popularity as the value of threat prediction and proactive defense building has proven itself effective at mitigating threat activities. CTI provides information that links the probability and impact of a cyber-attack by providing a framework for timely analysis and prioritization of potential threats and vulnerabilities given an industry’s threat landscape.

CTI can assist in providing organizations with the information needed to direct resources to address threats. “CTI products provide the information necessary for decision makers to direct resources to address well-defined threats to an organization” CTI has a direct and powerful benefit for organizations in terms of risk management. Data Driven Transportation. Scott E.

Data Driven Transportation

Bennett, Director, Arkansas Department of Transportation. Collaboration Drives Innovation: Developing a Smart Region Mentality. Chris Camacho, President & CEO, Greater Phoenix Economic Council The Smart Cities Connect Conference in Kansas City brought together leaders from around the country to discuss smart city practices and the do’s and don’ts.

Collaboration Drives Innovation: Developing a Smart Region Mentality

There are many different perspectives about what makes a city “smart”. Intelligent Transportation Management Systems-Cyber security Concerns. Thomas Gresham, CISO, Port of San Diego Growing Interconnectivity and Automation Intelligent Transportation may be thought of as the integration of transportation control systems through communication networks to enable the automation of services related to the movement of goods or people.

Intelligent Transportation Management Systems-Cyber security Concerns

Intelligent systems are being adopted for efficiencies in transport. The Three Invincible Approaches to Successful Leadership. Kim Heldman, CIO, Regional Transportation District There are several things I consider key when serving as a leader for an Information Technology department.

The Three Invincible Approaches to Successful Leadership

Reshaping Transportation Mobility with Simplified Services. Kirk Serjeantson, CIO, Dicom Transportation Group The Dicom Transportation Group (DTG) is a North American transportation company offering multiple transportation services across Canada and the US.

Reshaping Transportation Mobility with Simplified Services

At DTG, we have made a significant investment in our technology over the past several years in an effort to better manage our operations from curbside to our warehouse floors. This article focuses on two key areas, our mobile platform and our track-and-trace platform. Technology Gives Eastern Students a Competitive Edge. Elsa M.

Technology Gives Eastern Students a Competitive Edge

Núñez, President, Eastern Connecticut State University Fascinating new technology tools are being used by Eastern Connecticut State University faculty to prepare students for a global economy driven by technological change. The latest technology is allowing students to see and react to the world differently in and outside the classroom, as they get ready for a variety of career fields. Information Governance: Past, Present & Future. Alexander Campbell, Manager Records, Cohen & Gresser LLP Recently I found myself walking to Central Park in the Upper East Side neighborhood where I reside in NYC and I happened upon a group of construction workers taking a break.

Information Governance: Past, Present & Future

One man in particular was speaking in very animated tones causing my ears to perk up a bit. Raleigh and The Cloud: Iterative Progress. D.

Raleigh and The Cloud: Iterative Progress

Darnell Smith, CIO, City of Raleigh, North Carolina Raleigh, North Carolina, is a modern city that sits at a crucial technological crossroads. We anchor the Research Triangle region and are North Carolina’s capital. We’re booming in many ways; residents from all walks of life readily offer the statistic that roughly 66 people per day move to this area and claim it as their home. As with many local governments, even those larger than Raleigh, we are making huge strides toward moving functions to a cloud environment. Citizens expect the latest technologies and the infrastructure that supports those advancements. "Putting into place our new multifaceted and focused IT strategy enables us to move more services to the cloud with intention. " Empowering the Public Sector and the People. Tanya Acevedo, CIO, Travis County Travis County, with its county seat in Austin, Texas, is one of the fastest growing metropolitan areas in the nation.

This increase in growth drives a subsequent increase in demand on all governmental resources such as construction permits, road development, health and human services, courts, law enforcement, parks and recreation. And newer, faster, scalable technology is required to enable Travis County Government to deliver these services, while trying to stem the need for growth of Full Time Equivalents (FTEs) by either automating processes, allowing for constituent self-service, or using data to predict and allocate resources where needed. We need digital processes that make sense, which add value to our constituent’s lives and that shows a true return on our taxpayers’ investment.

Creating a Tech - Enabled Ecosystem. Brenna Berman, Executive Director, City Tech Collaborative Government organizations, including cities, have a reputation for being late technology adopters. The standard image of government is a bureaucracy choosing to wait until a solution is fully vetted by other industries before advancing an implementation. However, in the realm of emerging technologies, including the Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence, many cities are early adopters, breaking the stereotype of government as a slow participant in innovation.

This trend has been the underpinning of the smart cities market for several years now and urban innovation shows no signs of slowing down. Understanding why cities are early adopters and the impact of this increasing trend gives insight into the new role that cities are playing as they drive technology innovation. IT Governance Built to Last: The Wisconsin Enterprise Model.

David Cagigal, CIO, State of Wisconsin In early September, the State of Wisconsin learned that it had earned an A- in the Center for Digital Government’s 2016 Digital States Survey, along with first place in the Adaptive Leadership category. Defining Innovation at a 225-Year-Old Law Firm. Mike Tyler, Director of IT Client Services, Cadwalader I was recently speaking with a partner at the storied,225- year-old law firm—Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft— where I co-lead the Technology Department. We were discussing the messaging app that uses color codes to indicate when you’re busy, free, or out of office. He said that when he first joined Cadwalader more than two decades ago, the receptionist would flip a switch to light a little bulb at the switchboard when he arrived at the office. When he left, the light would be turned off. He told me bragging rights went to the attorney whose bulb burned out first. Leveraging Technology to Transform Governance. In 2012, we developed Cloud Guidance for the State agencies that served to educate and identify considerations that should be given before moving to cloud solutions.

These considerations now seem fairly straightforward now. How Will Drone Technology Augment Emergency Management ? By Gov CIO Outlook | Monday, October 21, 2019 The benefits provided by drone technology will enable emergency response agencies to enhance their capabilities significantly. FREMONT, CA – The emergence of drone technology has equipped emergency management organizations with robust capabilities that will enable them to cater more closely to the society. It has helped them to enhance their crisis management strategies and facilitate the optimization of resources.

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