News Topics in Government Technology

Contracts: Contracts Awarded by State, Local and Federal Governments for IT Products and Services

CIO / CTO: Interviews Features and News about CIOs/CTOs and IT Managers

E-Government / Serving the Citizen: Government for the citizen, and back-end improvements that enable greater efficiency

Economic Development: Business Development, Permits, Inspections, IT-Based Development, Tax Policy and Collections, etc.

Emergency Management: Emergency preparation and response to weather and natural disasters

Emerging Technology and Innovation: The latest in IT innovations that has potential to assist government operations or to revise the missions and methodologies of public service

Enterprise Technology: SOA, shared services, and other solutions for interoperability and collaboration

Funding and Procurement: Grants, strategies, changes and improvements in procurement policy and practice

Geospatial: Geographic information systems include GIS, GPS and other IT-based mapping and coordinate systems and their uses by state and local government

Green Initiatives: Energy-saving and environmentally friendly IT initiatives

Health and Community Services: IT for health, public assistance, community improvement

Policy/Management: IT-related legislation, strategic plans and the management of programs, people and finances

Products: IT hardware, software and networking products of interest to state and local government

Professional and Workforce Development: Webinars, conferences and online training resources as well as IT-based K-12 and higher education programs

Public Safety / Justice / Homeland Security: Homeland security, safety, and criminal justice articles for government technology professionals

Regionalization / Consolidation: IT-based regional initiatives, consolidation, and interoperability

Security: Covers information management, online scams, identity theft, privacy and other security issues.

Transportation and Infrastructure: IT-based transportation initiatives and applications

Web Strategies: Best of the Web winning solutions strategies and lessons learned

Wireless / Mobile / Broadband: Telecommunications technologies from WiFi to mobile broadband including regulation and applications

News Topics in Digital Communities

E-Government / Serving the Citizen: Government for the citizen, and back-end improvements that enable greater efficiency

Geospatial: Geographic information systems include GIS, GPS and other IT-based mapping and coordinate systems and their uses by state and local government

Wireless / Mobile / Broadband: Telecommunications technologies from WiFi to mobile broadband including regulation and applications

Regionalization / Consolidation: IT-based regional initiatives, consolidation, and interoperability

Economic Development: Business Development, Permits, Inspections, IT-Based Development, Tax Policy and Collections, etc.

Web Strategies: Best of the Web winning solutions strategies and lessons learned

Health and Community Services: IT for health, public assistance, community improvement

Public Safety / Justice: Homeland security, safety, and criminal justice articles for government technology professionals

Transportation and Infrastructure: IT-based transportation initiatives and applications

IT Security and Privacy: Privacy, disaster recovery, security, and good management practices for city and county IT

News Topics in Public CIO

Latest CIO News: Breaking stories that affect the public CIO community.

Leadership Strategies & Careers: The latest on government IT executives; career advice; and, analysis on how to be an IT leader in the public sector arena.

IT Management & Governance: Knowledge about the three P's - project, performance & portfolio management - as well high-value lessons on governing IT.

Research: In-depth research on the major challenges and issues facing today's public CIO.

Enterprise Technology: Hardware, software and infrastructure. Detailed coverage on the latest tech trends affecting enterprise CIOs.

Case Studies & Interviews: Up close and personal views of government CIOs and the work they do.

Advice & Opinion: Commentary - with a dash of controversy - from today's opinion makers.

News Topics in Emergency Management

Latest Emergency Management News: Breaking stories relating to emergency management and response.

Mitigation: Activities that prevent an emergency, reduce the chance of an emergency happening, or reduce the damaging effects of unavoidable emergencies.

Preparedness: Includes plans or preparations made to save lives and to help response and rescue operations.

Recovery: Includes actions taken to return to a normal or even safer situation following an emergency.

Response: Includes actions taken to save lives and prevent further property damage in a disaster or emergency situation.