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Expert: Government tech buyers should acquire systems that offer continuous improvements

• 17th June 2022

The rapid pace of change makes it difficult to outline best practices for government tech-buying teams, says Chris Dixon, senior manager of state, local and education (SLED) industry analysis at Deltek, a global provider of software and solutions for project-based businesses and governments. It also issues reports that identify current government contracting trends and market […]

Making urban placemaking equitable through collaboration

• 16th June 2022

What makes a city a city? Ask 10 people, and you’ll likely receive 10 different answers: the community, the buildings, the culture, the restaurants. But one element that has an outsized impact on a city’s character—yet is often overlooked—is urban placemaking. Urban placemaking is an overarching approach and a set of hands-on strategies that center […]

Take the American City & County government budgeting survey

• 16th June 2022

A local government can’t operate without a budget. Managing and prioritizing budget spending affects the lives of everyone in the community. How are city and county governments creating their annual budget and setting long-term spending goals, while making sure the process is transparent and equitable to residents? Take our brief survey—Developing and Allocating Local Budgets—and […]

Local governments need flexible procurement policies as they work to acquire up-to-date technology

• 9th June 2022

Streamlining procurement processes is a top 10 priority among local government IT officials. That’s one of the findings in the new “2022 CompTIA Public Technology Institute (PTI) State of City and County IT National Survey” from CompTIA. “Our latest 2022 local government survey has procurement as one of its top priorities for the first time—ranked […]

Video: LiDAR-equipped drone by Microdrones demonstration at IWCE 2022

• 8th June 2022

Mayors call for peace, gun control legislation at annual conference

• 3rd June 2022

The U.S. Conference of Mayors kicked off its 90th annual meeting Friday in Reno, Nev., with a call to action on gun control—a topic the advocacy organization has taken a strong stance on following recent mass shootings in Buffalo, N.Y.; Uvalde, Texas; and Tulsa, Okla. “It’s more important than ever that we recommit ourselves to […]

Public procurement resource is expanding its tools and offerings to purchasers everywhere

• 2nd June 2022

Last September, Canadian technology vendor mdf commerce acquired Periscope Holdings. Periscope provides procurement transformation solutions to the entire procurement ecosystem. “This is great news for local governments,” says Mark Eigenbauer, president of eProcurement at mdf commerce. He explains that key tools, such as eSourcing, eProcurement, shopping and contract lifecycle management (CLM) solutions built specifically for […]

Software solutions and data analytics forming synergy in AMI deployment

• 2nd June 2022

Software and services are empowering the traditional electricity, gas and water meter hardware, and unlocking greater value than ever from the meter data, which will definitely disrupt the future of the utilities and the advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) industry. “A new era of software-defined solutions is coming,” said Stephanie Wu, senior analyst of Omdia Smart […]

Report: Majority of public schools saw increase in students seeking mental health services

• 1st June 2022

While news of the coronavirus and its latest mutations has dominated public discourse for the last few years, there’s been another, tangential public health concern simultaneously the nation—an ongoing mental health crisis, especially in K-12 schools. Across the board, “We’ve seen an increase in students seeking mental health services and in staff voicing concerns about […]

Remote alarm notifications add firewall as utilities face mounting threats of cyberattacks

• 27th May 2022

Municipal utilities are critical to national security, economic stability, and public health and safety. As technology in these sectors evolves, cyberattackers take advantage of opportunities to exploit vulnerabilities. While the Federal Government has taken steps to address this issue by creating innovative public-private partnerships and initiatives, the worldwide attacks on municipal utilities in the past […]