Digital Communities represents a collaborative network of local government leaders and private sector technology partners who have a common purpose to deploy technology to its full potential to expand economic opportunity, protect the environment, increase governmental efficiency, enhance emergency planning and response, improve educational opportunity and foster citizen engagement and involvement in the governance process.
An advisory board sets the national program agenda which will assist local government leaders in exploring and sharing emerging best-practices and innovative technology deployments helping to solve these vital challenges facing cities, counties and regions.
Through a range of strategic media elements and events industry members will engage CIOs, public safety chiefs, IT Directors and many more at the technology forefront to yield the greatest marketing and sales impact with local governments.
Mobile technologies are making mission-critical data (voice, data, video, maps) available on-demand and on-site through mobile networks and devices. Many organizations are planning remote access to their production-level enterprise applications. This whitepaper explores the drivers and benefits for going mobile in the public sector, along with suggestions for getting started.
If you were Kevin Bushweller and had recently launched a publication aimed at helping school district CIOs integrate technology, you would be smiling as much as he does. Learn about Kevin's new venture, Digital Directions, in this interview...and the social media project he has created for educators.