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Vice President Hails Private-Sector Internet2 Donations
Vice President Hails Private Sector Internet2 Donations
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Vehicle-Tracking Program Helps Cops Watch Their Backs
Lawsuits against emergency service agencies for slow or inadequate responses to 911 calls have become a rising concern to public safety agencies.
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New Federal Program to Respond to Mass-Destruction Threats
New Federal Program to Respond to MassDestruction Threats
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Pitfalls of Public Safety Integration
Public safety may be the highest civic priority within local government, but the technology used to support such services often lags behind the times. While getting the job done, many 911, computeraided dispatch (CAD) and radio systems are outdated and splintered among police, fire and other city
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Arming Beat Cops With GIS Weapons
The use of geographic information systems (GIS) and smart maps to combat crime traditionally has been a luxury that only big city police units could afford. But now the Justice Department wants to give average beat cops in smaller, less technically savvy departments access to the same technology we
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Internet High School
San Francisco's Thurgood Marshall Academic High School is situated in one of the city's toughest neighborhoods.
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New Federal Program to Respond to Mass-Destruction Threats
New Federal Program to Respond to Mass Destruction Threats
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GIS Power Politics
City and county governments have spent years building powerful repositories of geospatial data necessary to deliver a majority of public serviceseverything from building roads to dispatching ambulances. But local geographic information systems players until recently have been shut out of the strat
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How Much Should Computer Support Services Cost Your School District?
The Chicago Board of Education has no method for gauging what it should pay for information technology support services.
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Community Transit Systems
In many cities and towns, elderly, disabled or lowincome residents who have trouble getting to their local fixedroute public transportation system can simply place a call and be picked up at their doorstep. To accommodate such 'flex' requests, transit agencies are turning to a variety of hightec
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Outsourcing decision-making
The only activity of consequence in a publicsector chief information officer's or senior information technology manager's professional life, I believe, is making the right infrastructure decision. Senior managers in very large jurisdictionssuch as major federal agencies and the 10 or so largest s
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Roadway Design: Tool Lets You Pick Your Platform
When I worked as a transportation engineer in the early 1980s, our consulting engineering office did its roadway design using HewlettPackard Co. programmable calculators and mylar overlay sheets. Computeraided design software was something we were keeping an eye on, but all we could afford were t
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LAN War
The local-area network operating system battle now looks like a two-company fight.
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CDC Awards $33M Contract to Expand HIV Database
CDC Awards $33M Contract to Expand HIV Database
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Cops Have Trouble Funding Wireless Efforts, Need More Room on Radio
Cops Have Trouble Funding Wireless Efforts, Need More Room on Radio
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Senate Bill Would Guarantee Next Generation Internet Funding For Two Years
Senate Bill Would Guarantee Next Generation Internet Funding For Two Years
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Tax Filing Teamwork
Last year the Progress and Freedom Foundation, a Washington, D.C.based think tank, ranked the state of Washington first among equals in its use of information technology to serve the public interest.
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Volume-Licensing Service Keeps Software Police at Bay
If you are having difficulty keeping track of your agency's software licenses, you might want to take a look at a service from ASAP Software Express, Buffalo Grove, Ill., which is designed to make it easier to identify, track and audit large software inventories.
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