Government Technology

The winners in the other four categories were:

The following five emerging technologies are poised to go from amazing to ordinary — and the change will most certainly benefit us.

The website is designed to highlight government efforts to cut waste and improve efficiency.

"The Office of Consumer Protection has been a strong advocate for Montana citizens and small business," Attorney General Steve Bullock said this week. "This new step puts the power of the office even closer to citizens."

Imagine a world in which a new smartphone is delayed because it has to integrate with a mainframe computer from 1980. It sounds ridiculous, but that’s essentially how government too often works.

The Summit is FREE to government employees. All those who participate in technology decisions are encouraged to attend.

In addition, Canada’s government will make the move away from 100 different e-mail platforms to one all-encompassing system.

Computer centers typically do not employ many people to tend the machines, but analysts estimate that tens of thousands of jobs will most likely be eliminated.

A computer forensic examiner from Butte began an investigation Monday into the hacking last week of Yellowstone County’s website, an attack that appears to have involved electronic motor vehicle renewal payments as well as electronic property tax payments.

Where change is perceptible, rapid change makes change itself even more visible.