| West Virginia Expands Online Voting as Security Worries Grow After trying Internet voting for overseas voters, West Virginia is expanding the option to those with physical disabilities. But MIT researchers now say they’ve found worrying flaws in Voatz, the app the state has been using.
Chicago Awards $74.9M Contract to CentralSquare for CAD The nation’s largest provider of public safety software and technology has netted a massive contract, about a year after integrating with CAD-to-CAD and evidence management systems from other companies.
UrbanFootprint Announces $11.5M in New Funding for Expansion From climate change to housing affordability, water use and evolving transportation infrastructure, the company is staring down a barrel at looming global challenges it hopes to answer with data and AI.
Civic Tech Startup ePluribus Changes Name, Adds Digital IDs The company, now called Be Heard, has launched a blockchain-based solution for verifying users' identities it thinks could help with things like municipal IDs. The twist: All information is stored on the user's device.
NIC Adds Mobile Passport Application and Renewal to Gov2Go NIC, one of the largest vendors of digital services for government, says new features in Gov2Go allow citizens to apply for and receive a passport in as few as three days.
Upcoming Product Promises to Detect Weapons Via Wi-Fi Canadian company First Responder Technologies seeks to give schools, places of worship and other institutions an inexpensive and accurate method of identifying deadly weapons before tragedy strikes.
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