From transportation to digital equity, connected communities like Albuquerque, Columbus and Las Vegas keep citizen needs at the forefront.
Technology is no longer confined to PCs or even smartphones. It’s everywhere, in everything, and it aims to make life as easy as possible. Running into unexpected traffic on the way to work is fast becoming a thing of the past — your traffic app already warned you and rerouted you. Juggling numerous apps or credit cards to pay for rides on a bus, train, ferry or even bike could soon be as nostalgic a part of city life as fare boxes and subway tokens.
Weiterlesen: US: Next-Gen Cities: 3 Jurisdictions Get Smarter
New HIMSS Analytics research finds rural health systems give top priority to expanded patient access with telemedicine.
Network reliability and availability of fiber-based services are key contributors to success at rural healthcare provider organizations adopting new care delivery models. And telemedicine is a driving force behind rural healthcare organizations getting better connected, according to new research from HIMSS Analytics.
Weiterlesen: US: Rural hospitals are facing down connectivity obstacles as they deploy telemedicine
The Government Accountability Office has recommended the Office of Management and Budget to boost its oversight and continue issuing reports on high priority programs and U.S. Digital Service projects.
According to a report published Tuesday OMB’s Office of E-Government and Information Technology used a structured approach to determine the top 10 high priority IT programs from a list of agency projects that required additional oversight.
Weiterlesen: US: GAO Urges OMB to Increase Oversight for High Priority Programs
The project aspires to give city governments a resource for identifying suitable data standards based on popularity, reliability and other criteria.
A nonprofit gov tech group has created an international open data standards directory, aspiring to give cities a singular resource for guidance on formatting data they release to the public.
Weiterlesen: US: GovEx Launches First International Open Data Standards Directory
The revolutionary potential of the internet means that we can do more than simply build a more beautiful user interface for antiquated government operations.
For three years, Advanced Research in Government Operations Labs (ARGO Labs) has envisioned, planned, and deployed public data infrastructure for integrated urban water use data across California. After Governor Brown’s historic executive order in May 2016 to “make water conservation a way of life” our team calculated how much water Californian retail water utilities should reasonably expect their residential customers to need, and created a data visualization based on that data to analyze user selected scenarios. Our work leveraged freely available imagery and academic research partnerships to deliver those statewide estimates of reasonable water use for just 5 percent of the $3 million the state originally budgeted for the project.
Weiterlesen: US: California: Why We Should Treat Public Data Like Water