TOP HEADLINES California County, State Officials Talk My Turn Deployment Officials from L.A. County, the nation’s most populous county, and the California Department of Technology offered their takeaways from the rollout of the My Turn COVID-19 vaccination eligibility website. READ MORE Want to Improve Urban Mobility? Improve Coordination First A new report by the Transportation Research Board points toward more seamless and coordinated connections among all forms of shared mobility, such as buses, bikes, trains, scooters and more. READ MORE Florida County Launches Streamlined Vaccination System Indian River County is leveraging a new vaccine registration system aimed at residents 65 and over. The new process is a notable change from the "first-come, first-served" system residents were struggling to navigate. READ MORE Pennsylvania Transit Embraces New App to Streamline Travel Transit providers in Berks and Lancaster counties have upgraded fare payment and other technology to better enable contactless transactions amid a larger push to improve safety and convenience for riders. READ MORE Arkansas Opens the Door for Municipal Broadband Networks Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson signed a bill that enables cities to provide broadband services to their citizens. The legislation does place some restrictions on certain government entities. READ MORE What’s New in Civic Tech: FCC Launches Broadband Data Effort Plus, the NSF named 52 teams as Civic Innovation Challenge awardees; Anchorage, Alaska, launches a financial navigator to help residents impacted by the pandemic; and the USDR is offering pro-bono vaccine rollout support. READ MORE |