Shonte Eldridge, formerly Deputy Chief of Operations for the City of Baltimore, and now Senior Director of State and Local Government Strategy and Solutions at DocuSign, knows a thing or three about what it takes to harness technology to improve government processes.

State government CIOs are set to explain the latest strategies and tactics for automating government to improve service delivery and cybersecurity at MeriTalk’s State Tech Vision virtual event on September 27.

The Expanding Computing Education Pathways (ECEP) Alliance has been awarded a $3 million grant by Google.org to build out additional capacity to broaden participation in computer science education across the nation.

Amid the Bay Area’s recent record-breaking heat wave, the City of San Francisco took the opportunity to launch a heat mapping effort to collect data on the impacts of extreme heat.

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper has announced $206 million dollars in grant funding that will help expand internet access to 69 different counties in North Carolina.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said on August 31 that the agency is preparing to provide $791 million of new funding for state broadband buildouts through the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund.

The San Diego State University (SDSU) has launched a new free phone-based application to address and promote personal safety both on and off campus.

The City of La Salle, Illinois, is undergoing a digital transformation, moving from paper to digital processes with the help of GovPilot – a New Jersey-based provider of cloud-based government management software.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on August 24 announced nearly $42 million in two new funding rounds through the Emergency Connectivity Funding (ECF) program to help close the “homework gap” for students that don’t have access to reliable broadband service and devices.

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) said on August 17 that all 50 states, along with the District of Columbia and all U.S. territories, have filed applications for initial planning funds under the government’s Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program that aims to distribute $42.4 billion of broadband-related grants to underserved or unserved communities.