Government Technology

In the four months preceding the event, cyberattacks against state information systems had spiked by 600 percent, leaving IT staff stretched dangerously thin. "We had so many attacks that we were fighting those fires as opposed to spending resources to scan our network," Fletcher explains.

"It’s not designed for a woman, so it’s uncomfortable and it fits improperly."

The combination of mobile technology and the ability to work with data sets on devices is driving developments in visualization for governments.

To tackle Big Data, government agencies must build out a road map by doing the following:

States may have a chance to leapfrog the conventional wisdom and map technology investments to outcomes that matter beyond the four walls of government.

The successes of public-sector crowdsourcing initiatives and advances in technology have caused the public to expect to engage with government on a personal level.

Called the Six Stages of Digital Community Engagement http://www.digitalcommunityengagement.com/ , the evaluation consists of a detailed questionnaire that evaluates a government website’s communications features and measures the effectiveness of those methods.

Last month, hackers stole personal information of about 780,000 Medicaid recipients and participants in the Children’s Health Insurance Program, including the Social Security numbers of about 280,000 of them.

In addition to pooling resources into a single location, Kansas Business Center provides assistance to anyone who may have questions about the process and requirements.

Sooner than you think, there could be publicly subsidized tablets for every citizen, smartphones that double as a multipurpose CPU, and applications that are entirely platform agnostic.