When it comes to artificial intelligence, training and personnel, budgets, and IT infrastructure must be shaped by use cases ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Forrester researchers warn that “There’s no such thing as ‘too small’ or ‘too off the radar’ for opportunistic cybercriminals.” Indeed, small towns are vulnerable to cyberattacks, as they house ...

Budget and workforce are invaluable resources at the state and local levels of government, and both are hard to come by. This is especially true for small and rural communities. Increasingly ...

From ambient listening to advanced diagnostics, care providers are already using artificial intelligence to improve healthcare outcomes. But it’s not just clinical settings that stand to gain from the ...

In 2022, the ALPHV Ransomware as a Service group attacked the city of Alexandria, La., with its malware. Two years later, LockBit ransomware bandits attacked Wichita, Kans. Once novel RaaS gangs are ...

While organizations across sectors have made strides in recent years to address cybersecurity workforce shortages, there are still hundreds of thousands of jobs left unfilled. The latest available ...

Funding at the state and local level is famously complex. Some jurisdictions allocate an IT budget over a certain period rather than following a predictable monthly or annual budget. In those cases, ...