For states, IT preparedness is crucial to emergency communications and ensuring that public information is available, even ...

What can AI help me do with my data, and is my data ready for it? Those are the central questions for government agencies as they prepare for AI, experts say. Everything else — training, budget, ...

When cybersecurity succeeds, there aren’t any negative outcomes. But when there’s no fallout, it's harder to make the case for the resources needed to prevent bad outcomes in the future. “No news is ...

State and local government networks have always been complex, with different departments and agencies often adding resources, apps and hardware as needed to meet their mission goals. The move to cloud ...

Bob Leek doesn’t reboot his computer frequently. As CIO of Clark County, Nev., he’s constantly working on IT projects. His computer may fall out of compliance if he has not updated or patched an ...

For as long as there have been video games, there have been attempts to use them for productivity. From teaching typing to boosting armed forces recruitment, gaming has been used in training, ...

As CEO and executive director of the National League of Cities, I have the privilege of working closely with thousands of local leaders from cities, towns and villages across the country, hearing ...

During a 2025 IT forecast in January, Doug Robinson, executive director of the National Association of State Chief Information Officers, confirmed that generative artificial intelligence will be the ...

While artificial intelligence will dominate this year’s state and local government technology landscape, there’s one iteration of AI that agencies will want to pay close attention to. Agentic AI — AI ...