State Tech Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

In 2020, StateTech named Syracuse, N.Y., as a top Smart City to Watch. 28, Syracuse Director of Strategic Initiatives Jennifer Tifft will participate in Smart Cities Connect 2023 on a panel, The National Standards Strategy for Critical and Emerging Technology and Implications for Smart Cities and Communities.

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State Tech Magazine

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

in 2020 I helped successfully leverage new… Even manufacturers leveraged artificial intelligence and machine learning to limit the number of workers on the factory floor. But what about our critical government agencies? As CIO of Elkhart County, Ind.,

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GAO (US Government Accountability Office)

AUGUST 30, 2023

Interest on loans will begin accruing (again) in September and payments will be due starting in October—for the first time since March 2020. The federal student loan payment pause ends this month. After the more than three-year pause, many borrowers.

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State Tech Magazine

MAY 30, 2023

The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 banned the use of any Chinese drones, including the popular brand DJI, by the U.S. Drone sales to states and localities are up, according to reports, but agencies are shifting how they spend that money. Department of Defense and its contractors.

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State Tech Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

We’ve been operating in this environment since March 2020,” says Jason Snyder, state CIO and secretary of the Executive Office of Technology Services and Security. It has been key in supporting the commonwealth’s move to remote and hybrid work.

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State Tech Magazine

APRIL 20, 2023

End-user experience was a top priority for the Illinois Department of Innovation and Technology when it deployed Okta Workforce Identity Cloud to more than 8,000 employees in early 2020. The Illinois state government faced employee challenges as the world shut down during the pandemic.

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State Tech Magazine

MARCH 28, 2023

On-street traffic deaths in Chicago rose from 96 in 2019 to 139 in 2020. … The push for the city’s Smart Streets Pilots Ordinance is a response to a spike in traffic fatalities at both the local and national level.

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State Tech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

It was early 2020, and Gateff had been searching the internet for official information on the spread of COVID-19 in the state. Jessica Gateff was an Oklahoma citizen before she took her first job with the state. And it was in her role as citizen that she learned how cloud migration can instantly change the way government works, she says.

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McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

In a year marked by crisis and uncertainty, corporate America is at a crossroads. The choices companies make today will have consequences on gender equality for decades to come.

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State Tech Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

In 2020, employees of the New Jersey judicial system could not report to work due to the COVID-19 pandemic. New Jersey Judiciary CIO Jack McCarthy was faced with a challenge: how to ensure these newly remote workers could securely access sensitive systems using legacy architecture.

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State Tech Magazine

JUNE 20, 2023

While the report found that attacks were down in 2022, ransomware targets still reported very large number of attacks compared to levels in 2018, 2019 and 2020. According to SonicWall’s 2023 Cyber Threat Report, ransomware has “been on a tear” for the past few years, growing 105 percent year over year in 2021.

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State Tech Magazine

DECEMBER 28, 2022

When the pandemic shut down many government offices in March 2020, residents could no longer physically interact with government employees in many cities, including Santa Monica, Calif. The Santa Monica city manager turned to the municipality’s CIO for a solution to boost citizen services online.

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State Tech Magazine

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

In 2020, StateTech named Syracuse, N.Y., as a top Smart City to Watch. 28, Syracuse Director of Strategic Initiatives Jennifer Tifft will participate in Smart Cities Connect 2023 on a panel, The National Standards Strategy for Critical and Emerging Technology and Implications for Smart Cities and Communities.

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State Tech Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

McCarthy discussed how the New Jersey courts system adopted Zscaler products in support of zero trust when the 2020 pandemic forced all state employees to work from home. In a recent video chat with StateTech, New Jersey Judiciary CIO Jack McCarthy outlined four pillars of a zero-trust architecture.

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State Tech Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2022

In 2021, 66 percent of organizations were hit by a ransomware attack, up from 37 percent in 2020,” according to Sophos. Criminals took advantage of digital transformation and the move to remote work during the pandemic to launch attacks on all types of organizations, including state and local governments.

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FedTech Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2025

However, Wi-Fi 6E, the standard released in January 2020, offered access, says Kevin Robinson, CEO of the Wi-Fi Alliance. While Wi-Fi 7 can operate on the previously accessible 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands, it also works with the 6GHz band, which wasnt available when Wi-Fi 6 was introduced in 2018.

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GAO (US Government Accountability Office)

AUGUST 25, 2022

In Fiscal Year 2021, the federal government spent about $637 billion on contracts, a decrease of $54 billion from FY 2020. However, FY 2021 COVID-19-related spending increased from $35 billion to $52 billion, with drugs and biologicals comprising the.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Penn State Go officially launched in January 2020 and COVID-19-related shutdowns began a few months later. Since 2020, the app has had 332,000 downloads and has logged around 119 million lifetime user interactions, with 85 percent of students using the app at least one time a week.

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State Tech Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2022

Founded in 2020, StateRAMP is an organization that aims to do the same for state governments. For more than a decade, federal agencies have relied on the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) to clear cloud technology vendors through a security and risk assessment, thus qualifying them for federal contracts.

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State Tech Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

In 2020, for instance, 45 percent of ransomware attacks centered on municipalities, according to Barracuda Networks research. A number of local governments have been the target of cybersecurity attacks in recent years.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2022

To further encourage Singaporeans to take timely action to reskill and upskill to seize opportunities in the future economy, a one-off SkillsFuture credit of $500 was provided to every Singapore citizen aged 25 years and above as of December 31, 2020. How SkillsFuture Singapore uses AWS to scale and more.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Ness: Accelerating AI capabilities Ness, an AWS Premier Partner since 2020, participated in the Generative AI TTM in Q1 2024 to accelerate their AI capabilities and deploy generative AI solutions for their public sector clients.

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State Tech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Since the pandemic began in March 2020, unemployment insurance benefits fraud alone has cost 23 states an estimated total of $60.4 In fact, its rising prevalence has been souring efforts to fight against the exploitation of state-run programs on technical and financial fronts for years.

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State Tech Magazine

APRIL 23, 2024

Reliance on managed security providers increased from 2020 to 2022, Deloitte and NASCIO note. In 2020, 51 percent of survey respondents said they contracted with a managed security service provider; in 2022, the figure was 78 percent.…

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State Tech Magazine

OCTOBER 1, 2024

In 2020, the Tennessee Department of Finance & Administration’s Strategic Technology Solutions partnered with various state agencies to create a mobile application that puts access to most citizen services at peoples’ fingertips.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 10, 2023

In 2020, the City of Canton, Ohio set out to build a better, safer, and more connected community. In 2020, Canton’s chief of police, Jack Angelo, wanted to extend public safety monitoring city-wide, saying “Eventually our goal is to have most all of the city covered,” by using Wi-Fiber’s extensive broadband mesh network.

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The City Fix

APRIL 1, 2021

As the world reels from the financial blow of COVID-19, local governments in the United States are under huge pressure as cities and counties face severe budget shortfalls. This is forcing cuts to crucial spending on education and infrastructure as. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

JULY 30, 2024

Since merging with Anixter in 2020, Wesco has integrated the best of both, delivered stellar performance, and strategically invested in big data to capture the next wave of value creation.

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State Tech Magazine

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Collins, who served as state CIO of Delaware from 2014 to 2020, shared AI insights specific to government agencies. StateTech’s Mickey McCarter chatted with James Collins, Microsoft’s public sector leader for the Americas, about these capabilities. STATETECH…

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The City Fix

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Just before she took office in January 2020, Mayor Claudia López committed to redesigning a major artery of Bogotá into a “green corridor” for sustainable, active mobility. She also committed to a comprehensive participatory planning process – a potentially daunting. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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The City Fix

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Global ridership tanked initially by as much as 80%, and transit was still at around just 20% of pre-pandemic ridership at the end of 2020. The coronavirus pandemic hit public transport hard. There is serious concern that people will increasingly opt for private vehicles, should public. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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The City Fix

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Between March and July 2020, 394 cities, Continue reading on TheCityFix.com. Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, cycling has become an even more popular, resilient and reliable travel option, and pop-up bike lanes have been increasingly common in major cities around the globe.

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The City Fix

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Let’s not forget what we learned during 2020 about the fragility of our food supply chains:?the the prevailing, globalized model is as fragile as a spider web. It can shatter into dangling threads in times of crisis, such as a pandemic.

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State Tech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

As noted by Forbes, investment in smart cities is expected to double from roughly $410 billion in 2020 to more than $820 billion in 2025. The challenge? Making sure “smart” extends from start to finish.

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The City Fix

APRIL 12, 2021

In 2020 and into 2021, transportation agencies, companies and advocacy groups acted swiftly in the face of the unique public health crisis and disruption caused by COVID-19. They provided solutions that kept frontline workers, groceries, health services and other critical. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2024

In keeping with this philosophy, Wharton fully migrated its infrastructure to Amazon Web Services (AWS) in 2020 so it could move quickly and adapt to the latest technological advancements. The school has a long-standing emphasis on the use of data and technology in both its research of business ideas and its approach to student learning.

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GovLoop

DECEMBER 20, 2024

More Data on Tap Over the past year, Batemans team has been digging deeper into data from the 2020 Decennial Census, with a focus on race and ethnicity.

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