From the standpoint of organization and funding alone, local governance can seem impossible. After all, towns and cities tackle everything from running public schools and maintaining transportation systems to creating landfills. But somehow, every county finds solutions, and increasingly, many of the solutions are based in technology. Case in point? Wake County, North Carolina. With […]
Features October 2016
Eric Romero – Baton Rouge Department of Information Services
By early Friday, August 12, 2016, rain had started to hammer Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Before emergency services were even activated, Eric Romero, director of the city’s Department of Information Services, knew he was in for a very long week. “Because we’ve been through so many emergencies, I knew I needed to pack a change of […]
Matt Arvay – Virginia Beach, Virginia
Virginia Beach consistently ranks among the best cities to live, work and play. It’s home to approximately 450,000 residents and boasts 38 miles of beaches. The city’s Chief Information Officer Matthew B. Arvay wants to give the city another claim to fame. Arvay is leading the way to transform Virginia Beach into one of the […]
Peter Ambs – Albuquerque, New Mexico
Albuquerque, New Mexico, has long been a place for visionaries in technology, perhaps beginning in 1975 when two young men moved to the high desert city to start Microsoft. Though the city has never lacked for talented programmers and entrepreneurs, its data systems were woefully slow and out of date by 2009. Albuquerque was hampered […]
