Results for America has recognized nine municipalities for using data to inform policy and improve government service delivery to residents. To date, 83 cities have received the What Works Cities Certification.
The seasoned former CIO of one of the largest cities in the country will take his three decades of federal and local tech know-how and share it as an executive partner for the global company.
The city’s chief technology and information security officer of six years will, for now, serve as chief information officer following the retirement Tuesday of CIO Bill Zielinski. The outgoing CIO will head to the private sector.
Proposition J asks Dallas voters to authorize the city to issue $5 million in general obligation bonds for information technology facilities and improvements.
Kansas-based QTS Realty Trust will build a more than 210,000-square-foot, two-story data center in Irving, Texas. Plans are to commence construction in August. The project is just the latest in the area’s robust market for data centers.
The Texas Innovation Consortium Fund, set up at the University of Texas at Dallas, aims to build workforce training programs and attract public and private investment in the state.
Hackers who targeted the city of Dallas had access to the addresses, Social Security numbers and other personal information of nearly 300 more people than what had been previously disclosed to the public, officials now say.
As the outage persists and people say they lack firm answers on when it will end, members of a Dallas community believe this is a symptom of inequalities they’ve been fighting for some time now.
The Transportation Security Administration is piloting a new self-service security checkpoint program next year in Las Vegas, and it could soon spread to other airports, including Dallas.
For the second time in as many months, Dallas County officials have disclosed they’ve been tricked by cyber criminals, only this time their mistake appears to have been far more costly.
