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Special Report: A Foundation for the Future of Local Government

In fiscal 2008, governors' budget proposals show a lower expected growth rate of just 4.2 percent, with expenditures expected to total $642 billion. Pressures will likely increase in health care, criminal justice, employee benefits and pensions, and physical infrastructure -- in part to make up for the lingering effects of cuts made in previous years. Even so, demand for digital infrastructure is increasing.

Year One Digital Communities Survey

In November 2005, Government Technology magazine was commissioned to conduct an online survey amongst its subscribers. The focus of this survey was the priorities and challenges jurisdictions face as they moving towards a digital community transformation.

Year One Digital Communities Survey

Eleven months after the launch of Digital Communities initiative, Government Technology magazine conducted a second online survey amongst its subscribers to assess and better understand the priorities and challenges facing jurisdictions as they undergo digital community transformation. The new survey provides insights both on the impact of the initiative and the future mobile procurement plans of subscribers.

Digital Communities Special Report

Critical Mass: How Digital Technology Will Redefine the Way You Live

Municipal Wireless: Evaluating "Public-Private Partnerships" and Other Private Business Models

This article is the second in a series excerpted from an important new report from the Institute for Local Self-Reliance entitled Localizing the Internet: Five Ways Public Ownership Solves the U.S. Broadband Problem.

Five Ways Public Ownership Solves the U.S. Broadband Problem

This article is excerpted from an important new report from the Institute for Local Self-Reliance. Entitled Localizing the Internet: Five Ways Public Ownership Solves the U.S. Broadband Problem, author Becca Vargo Daggett argues that a publicly owned information infrastructure is the key to healthy competition, universal access, and non-discriminatory rates.

Audio/Video

BlackBerry Business Solutions, Government and Public Sector
BlackBerry® Business Solutions help agencies in all branches of government improve public service by helping to enhance communications, improve accessibility, reduce paper-based processes and increase collaboration. Now, mobile personnel can become more effective through secure wireless communications and specialized applications that help streamline field operations.

Why Mobile Device Management is Critical to IT
Learn more about how IT organizations can manage mobile devices as corporate assets, and safeguard the corporate data that is accessed on them.

After the Storm:
How New Orleans Leveraged Accela Software for Disaster Recovery

Building the Network from the Ground Up
Facing a crisis in its acute care facility due to patient growth, Poudre Valley Health System needed to construct a new care center. With help from Cisco, PVHS built a new network from the ground up.

Video: Cisco Digital Signage Demonstration
Cisco's new Digital Signage solution that delivers live and on-demand content in various formats from wired to wireless devices.

The city of Houston, Texas' SimHouston Initiative
Take a look as the Mayor of Houston, Texas receives the City Livability Award for the SimHouston initiative at the national U.S. Conference of Mayors Award Ceremony

Case Studies / White Papers

Whitepaper - Mobility Matters in Extending Public Service Delivery

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.

The Case for an Untethered Enterprise

Enterprise LANs are expensive to install and maintain. A completely wireless network significantly reduces costs and frees employees from their desks.

Enabling Efficient Government with Location-Centric CRM

Challenged with meeting the high expectations of citizens, government officials search for solutions to automate response and standardize the level of services. Learn how forward-thinking government agencies implement Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems to manage citizen inquiries, optimize service delivery, automate workflow, and improve accountability.

Property and Evidence White Paper
The foundation for an effective and complete property and evidence system.

"What About the Paper" White Paper
Electronic and Physical Records

Delivering Constituent-Focused Service Through Enterprise Content Management
Constituent-focused service requires agencies within a government enterprise or across levels of government to collaborate and share information so that each constituent receives the greatest value when interacting with government. An important aspect of interoperable information management is Enterprise Content Management (ECM), which incorporates both strategies and technologies to capture, manage, store, preserve and deliver content related to organizational processes.

Best Practices

Optimum Reliability in an Unlicensed Spectrum

Unlicensed spectrum is free. But just because it doesn’t cost anything doesn’t mean you don’t have the right to expect it to be reliable. This white paper examines how a growing number of operators are designing reliability into broadband networks using unlicensed frequencies.

Eyes on the Street: How Wireless Video Solutions are Transforming Public Safety

More and more government agencies are using broadband wireless video networks to enhance community safety, increase efficiency and optimize costs. This white paper outlines how government and public safety agencies are using Real-time, 24/7 wireless video to help improve the safety and service of neighborhoods, commercial districts, high-risk areas, crowded public events, dangerous intersections, public transit vehicles, municipal buildings and much more.

Video Changes the Future of Policing

For years, law enforcement agencies have used radio to provide them with the information they need to perform their missions. To increase the success of each operation, police are now incorporating video into their information network to augment traditional methods before, during, and after an event. This white paper outlines how video sharing and collaboration between law enforcement personnel can provide real-time information that could help agencies make better decisions, resulting in better outcomes.

Incident Scene, Event and Disaster Management

Public safety agencies have relied primarily on voice communication with some use of data. Today, large repositories of vital data are available at all levels enabling personnel to more fully asses a situation in real-time, allowing for better decisions that lead to better outcomes, ultimately saving lives. This white paper outlines the superior situational awareness that broadband data provides on the incident, event or disaster scene so agencies can deliver the right resources and decisions to the right places at the right time.

IntelliViewer Mobile Command System
Visual intelligence that's available at the command center is now accessible and useful to personnel on foot and behind the wheel.

Make your first response the best response.
Panasonic's and AirVisual's innovative, fully integrated Total Security Solution enables police officers and first responders to remotely view live/recorded surveillance video while in transit to potentially volatile situations.

Member News

Hyland Software Acquires Liberty Information Management Systems

Hyland Software, the developer of the OnBase enterprise content management (ECM) software suite, today announced that the company has acquired Liberty Information Management Systems (Liberty IMS).

State of Minnesota Signs Agreement with Microsoft for Single Email System

The State of Minnesota has signed an agreement with Microsoft to provide a single email and calendaring system for the entire executive branch.

Microsoft and Illinois State Police Collaborate on Best Practices and Information Technology Architecture for Homeland Security Fusion Centers

Architecture to be a model for agencies and departments across all jurisdictions.

Digital Communities Members