IfG.CC -
Institute for eGovernment

Dubuque, Iowa, has a population of just under 60,000, but it’s doing something few other cities its size have ever tried. It’s embedding technology in utility meters to collect and analyze water, gas and electricity use; it’s even using radio frequency identification tags to track how some people move about to gain a better understanding of the city’s traffic and transportation issues.

The use of data in healthcare has been hailed as a solution for saving time and dollars and improving patient outcomes for a healthcare organization. However, many health systems have a hard time capturing and using data from patients that can make a real impact on their businesses.

Part of the issue lies in electronic health record (EHR) data, which can provide an incomplete picture of patient behavior, according to a study recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. EHRs are inadequate in capturing mental health diagnoses, visits, specialty care, hospitalizations, and medication, according to the study by the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute.

In addition to continuing her work on the city's open data portal, OpenBaltimore, Hudson will be responsible for data warehousing and heading big data and business intelligence efforts in her new role.

Like the feds, state and local agencies have improved how they share and use big data, but a new report shows areas that still need improvement.

Like their federal counterparts, state and local agencies have made great strides in acquiring and using big data — but they still have a long way to go, according to a source in the industry.

Technology has made it easier for people to commit tax fraud and for governments to catch it.

It’s tax season again. For most of us, that means undergoing the laborious and thankless task of assembling financial records and calculating taxes for state and federal returns. But for a small group of us, tax season is profit season. It’s the time of year when fraudsters busy themselves with stealing identities and electronically submitting fraudulent tax returns for refunds.

By 2020, we will create approximately 44 trillion gigabytes of data each year — and cities worldwide are trying to find new ways to use this data to improve planning and decision-making, increase transparency, and build smarter, more resilient networks. These strategies can help.

Anyone involved in technology is well aware of the now-famous 1965 observation by Gordon Moore that the number of components in an integrated circuit doubles approximately every two years. Moore’s Law has been an industry standard used to benchmark the exponential progress for computing processing for the past 50 years.

Seattle’s digital privacy initiative aims to keep innovation on track with new data safeguards.

Big data can produce big operational and policy breakthroughs. And if not carefully addressed, it can produce even larger privacy concerns or a backlash. To date, most cities have been fortunate to avoid the backlash, but more as a result of good intentions than specific polices.

Big data and big data processing applied to the management and operation of the State apparatus are considered as the strategic foundation for smart urban development, with this being a "problem" that must be solved in order to be successful in building smart cities.

Preliminary statistics indicate that as of December, 2023, the country had 902 urban areas with an urbanisation rate of about 42.7%, on a par with the rest of Asia's urbanisation rate.

With the increasing use of public cloud technologies, much of our digital footprint lies outside of our own organisations. As an individual, your personal contributions include transactions such as your email traffic, Internet search history, those geotagged images you take on your smartphone and share through social media sites, your retail purchases, loyalty program transactions, payments and road toll payments, to name but a few.