It’s no secret that IT modernization is a top priority for the US federal government. A quick trip in the congressional time machine to revisit 2017’s Modernizing Government Technology Act surfaces some of the most salient points regarding agencies’ challenges: The federal government spends nearly 75% of its annual information technology funding on operating and […]
Information technology has been at the heart of governments around the world, enabling them to deliver vital citizen services, such as healthcare, transportation, employment, and national security. All of these functions rest on technology and share a valuable commodity: data. Data is produced and consumed in ever-increasing amounts and therefore must be protected. After all, […]
Data is the fuel that drives government, enables transparency, and powers citizen services. But while state and local governments seek to improve policies, decision making, and the services constituents rely upon, data silos create accessibility and sharing challenges that hinder public sector agencies from transforming their data into a strategic asset and leveraging it for […]
We’ve come a long way since 1778 when George Washington’s spies gathered and shared military intelligence on the British Army’s tactical operations in occupied New York. But information broadly, and the management of data specifically, is still “the” critical factor for situational awareness, streamlined operations, and a host of other use cases across today’s tech-driven […]
Much of the hype around big data and analytics focuses on business value and bottom-line impacts. Those are enormously important in the private and public sectors alike. But for government agencies, there is a greater mission: improving people’s lives. Data makes the most ambitious and even idealistic goals—like making the world a better place—possible. This […]
Fraud, waste, and abuse (FWA) in government is a constant, multi-billion dollar issue that challenges agency leaders at all levels and across all sectors, from healthcare to education to taxation to Social Security. The scope and scale of public spending—federal outlays alone were approximately $6.6 trillion in fiscal year 2020 according to the Congressional Budget […]
As a public sector leader, you don’t need the value of data explained to you. You already understand its importance to your vital missions. The challenge, rather, lies in locating data, streaming it, enriching it, and serving it, and then running analytics to maximize the value of the data that agencies already have—and the massive […]
State and local governments generate and store enormous amounts of data essential to their ability to deliver citizen services. But how can they capitalize on all of their data to become engines of growth and innovation, empowering and enhancing their ability to provide services and better serve their communities? Data doesn’t arrive on the doorsteps […]
