Route Fifty
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We are currently tracking 8 recent articles from Route Fifty, published over the past 28 hours.
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Recent Articles (8)
How digital service experience is shaping CIO approaches to state operations
Better communication with and recognition of IT teams can help chief information officers deliver enhanced services to residents and improve staff morale, state officials said.
Data centers are now the largest financial bet in US history
The $10.3 trillion buildout dwarfs dot-com, electrification, railroad booms.
Minneapolis will not require human drivers in robotaxis after council fails to override veto
The proposal aimed to protect the jobs of the state’s roughly 10,000 rideshare drivers, who have become well organized since successfully campaigning for statewide minimum pay rates and job protection
More body-cam footage is not the end goal. More usable, accountable footage should be
COMMENTARY | Programs should not be judged on how many officers wear them or how many hours of footage they obtain. What agencies do with that footage must also be considered.
Playbook offers states guidance for skills-based hiring in an ‘AI world’
With artificial intelligence becoming more infused into government operations, state leaders have an opportunity to consider new workforce policies and strategies ahead of the Nov. 3 elections, an exp
Schools, libraries say E-Rate’s ‘ongoing’ work should continue
In comments filed with the FCC, hundreds of school districts and libraries said the program is vital, and tweaking it would blow holes in local budgets that would be impossible to plug.
Washington AG will not pursue youth online protection legislation in wake of Meta settlement
Washington Attorney General Nick Brown will not ask state lawmakers again to pass a sweeping bill to limit social media for youths, saying a recent court settlement with a social media giant is suffic
Officials see gaps in election communications as AI makes foreign influence easier
Sources describe weakening cooperation between the federal government and state and industry partners ahead of the midterms, as AI gives foreign operatives cheaper ways to produce and spread deceptive