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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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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GAO (US Government Accountability Office)

JULY 9, 2024

The percentage of college students with disabilities has nearly doubled during the last two decades—with as many as 21% reporting a disability in 2020. These students face additional challenges in college, which can reduce their chances of graduating.

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NLC (National League of Cities)

JUNE 14, 2024

In 2020, during the wake of national protests following the murder of George Floyd, the National League of Cities published a CitiesSpeak blog highlighting the important concept of antiracism, which is one of the most-read blogs in NLC history. Four years later, the question “What does it mean to be an antiracist?”

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The City Fix

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Interested cities and NGOs can submit a letter of interest by October 30, 2020 here. Editor’s note: The Reforestation Hubs initiative is offering pro-bono technical support to a select group of local governments and NGO partners in the United States. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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State Tech Magazine

AUGUST 6, 2024

When the pandemic struck in 2020, New Orleans was prepared to ensure business continuity thanks in… Shortly before Christmas in 2019, New Orleans suffered a significant ransomware attack, and LaGrue led the city’s recovery and subsequent IT modernization efforts.

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Leadership 117

State Tech Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2023

The city has won numerous accolades recently, including the 2022 IEEE Smart Cities Jury Award, and was named one of StateTech’s Smart Cities to Watch in 2020. Coral Gables also recently won the Smart City Innovation Excellence Award from the Smart Cities Council. Rodulfo has a background in engineering in the telecommunications…

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State Tech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

A staggering 96% of all incorporated places had populations under 50,000 as of 2020, according to the Census Bureau. is a country of small cities and towns. Of the nearly 20,000 incorporated cities and towns in the U.S., 76% have fewer than 5,000 people.

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State Tech Magazine

OCTOBER 23, 2024

In February 2020, Tennessee opened the doors to its MyTN application, providing its residents with integrated access to an initial eight state services through an integrated, one-stop portal.

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Development 113

FedTech Magazine

APRIL 1, 2024

The National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Act of 2020 instructed NSF and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy to form a task force that published a roadmap…

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Housing 114

GCN

MARCH 21, 2024

It suffered a successful attack in 2020, and while its cyber protection has improved, it still faces roadblocks. Schools face unique challenges in shoring up their cyber defenses. Just ask Baltimore County Public Schools.

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The City Fix

MAY 8, 2024

Mexico became the first nation to declare access to safe mobility a human right in 2020 and two years later passed the General Law of Mobility and Road Safety to protect people, reduce collisions and promote sustainable modes of travel. Now, with this new.

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NLC (National League of Cities)

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Since 2020, the share of renter households has been growing rapidly. Renters now make up more than a third of all U.S. households. Renters represent a robust and diverse group of people from all demographic backgrounds: How Is the Rental Market Changing?

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The City Fix

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The surge in online market activity that began in 2020 builds on a decade of steady growth related to the. Urban freight and delivery services boomed during the COVID-19 pandemic as consumers switched to online shopping when businesses were forced to close.

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The City Fix

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

In 2020, demand for travel dropped dramatically, and many urban areas enforced restrictions on movement through lockdowns in a bid to control the impact of the pandemic. COVID-19 changed the way people move around cities. These lockdown periods throughout most. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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The City Fix

JUNE 8, 2020

As of May 18, 2020, the Ministry of Health confirmed it had a total of 352 cases of COVID-19 of which 30%. Contrary to what many speculated, the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Ethiopia has been low so far. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Transportation 110

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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GCN

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

New York’s sweeping 2020 law sought to accelerate pre-trial processes with technology upgrades. But the state’s experience offers lessons for other jurisdictions undertaking similar efforts to modernize the justice system.

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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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The City Fix

OCTOBER 4, 2022

As a result, passenger transport activity has more than tripled, and energy demand more than doubled from 2000 to 2020. Vehicle ownership per capita has grown five‐fold in India since 2000. The transport sector is the third largest greenhouse gas.

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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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NLC (National League of Cities)

MAY 2, 2023

In early 2020, two emergency declarations were issued in support of the nation’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic: a National Emergency and a Public Health Emergency.

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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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GCN

MAY 16, 2024

There are 5 million new housing units since 2020, mostly in the South and West, but supply has still not caught up with demand.

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Housing 89

NLC (National League of Cities)

DECEMBER 20, 2022

In fact, The Point-in-Time count reached a seven-year high of 580,466 people in 2020*, largely driven by […] Source

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Housing 105

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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FedTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

But when COVID-19 struck in 2020, the center’s home base of Fort Eisenhower, Ga. “Our classes are like a conveyer belt,” says Todd Boudreau, deputy commandant of the Cyber School, part of the Army’s Cyber Center of Excellence. formerly…

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FedTech Magazine

JANUARY 5, 2023

The rapid adoption of remote work in 2020 led agencies to permanently change the way they operate, with remote and hybrid working environments now here to stay. It’s already been more than two years since the pandemic forced a dramatic shift in organizations’ workplace operations, and federal agencies were no exception.

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GCN

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

COMMENTARY | Few people with SNAP benefits could use them for online purchases before the COVID-19 pandemic.

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NLC (National League of Cities)

APRIL 19, 2024

This final regulation culminated efforts underway within the Agency since at least 2020 under the previous administration when EPA announced a preliminary regulatory determination that certain PFAS […] Source

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FedTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The Federal Communications Commission decided in 2020 to open 1.2 Those components currently prioritizing the increased bandwidth that comes with the transition generally have high device density on their networks. gigahertz of spectrum covering the 6GHz band for unlicensed use to enable Wi-Fi 6E to deliver performance increases.

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Communications 99

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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The City Fix

MAY 28, 2020

Between the 1918 flu pandemic and the 2020 COVID-19 crisis, our ability to understand the effects of infectious diseases has increased exponentially. Networked personal devices and automated sensors are now ubiquitous, not to mention communications technologies like the internet that. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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The City Fix

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Plummeting bus and train ridership, lost jobs, overflowing warehouses, more inequality: 2020’s disruptions to the transport sector were widespread and deep. Speaking at Transforming Transportation 2021, co-hosted by WRI and the World Bank, sustainable mobility leaders from around the world. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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The City Fix

DECEMBER 23, 2020

In 2020, cities found themselves on the frontlines of the battle against a new and fast-spreading virus that soon became a global pandemic. Even as some places reacted with smart and swift responses that allowed for a partial return to normalcy, Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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