Plus, Amazon Web Services has hired at least four former state CIOs, how Orlando improved citizen satisfaction during the pandemic with existing tools and more...
GovTech Biz

TOP NEWS

Amid Protests, a Moment of Circumspection for Police Tech As protests shine light on racial inequities in the U.S., tech firms that serve law enforcement are evaluating ways to avoid creating, rather than solving, problems — and at least one has pledged not to support policing.

Amazon Web Services Has Hired Four Former State CIOs Such a concentration of former state tech leadership in one company is unusual, but AWS is also the largest cloud provider around and has offered government-focused services for a long time.

Orlando Improves Citizen Satisfaction with Existing Tools During the pandemic, the city has stood up services fast and cost effectively in-house, with low-code tools, then tweaked them with customer feedback, as opposed to spending millions and years on consulting.

California Homeless Data System Plans Procurement, Hirings Two California agencies are in the proof of concept stage of a procurement for a statewide homeless data integration system. Tackling the homelessness in the state has long been a focus of the Newsom administration.

MARKET SPOTLIGHT

City Budgets Taking Historic Sales Tax Hit, NLC Data Shows The pandemic has led to the steepest yearly decline in sales tax revenue in at least 24 years, according to a just-released report. And the National League of Cities expects recovery to be slow.

WATCHLIST

GovTech companies on our radar this week:

Modern Systems: A 35-year-old legacy modernization company whose offerings include a modernization platform-as-a-service.

Run a GovTech company? Get on our radar here.

GovTech100

BIZ NOTES

>SaaS Mag has named Accela one of the 1,000 fastest-growing SaaS companies of 2020.

WHAT WE'RE READING

Bridging the Gap Between Reported COVID-19 Toll and Reported Numbers in Texas (Houston Chronicle)

A 2020 Voting Guide for Every Single State (FiveThirtyEight)

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