Plus, Nextdoor acquires Neighborland, Biobot Analytics offers pro bono coronavirus tracking in sewage, Kansas turns to location data to track outbreak data and more...
GovTech Biz

TOP NEWS

Virus Shutdown: Time for Digital Government to Prove Itself Government IT staff and industry researchers weigh in on how digital services are meeting their moment, with office buildings closed, Web traffic spiking and applications for relief programs becoming increasingly urgent.

Nextdoor Acquires Citizen Engagement Platform Neighborland Months before it amped up its local government efforts with a new mobile app for public agencies, the community-based social media platform Nextdoor had bought a competitor whose focus was citizen engagement.

Biobot Analytics to Track COVID-19 in Sewage Pro Bono Repurposing analytics it used to produce data on the opioid epidemic, Biobot is offering a pro bono water testing program to contribute data to the health community’s growing understanding of the pandemic.

Kansas Uses Cellphone Location Data Tool to Track COVID-19 A recently launched dashboard is showing users where people are obeying stay-at-home orders or not. The tool uses anonymized cellphone location data to identify where people are congregating during stay-home orders.

MARKET SPOTLIGHT

Here's How Much Each State Should Receive from the CARES Act The act, a response to the COVID-19 outbreak, will distribute $150 billion among states, localities, tribal governments and territories proportional to population. Here's how that distribution is likely to play out.

WATCHLIST

GovTech companies on our radar this week:

Daupler: Modern incident response management software for utilities.

Run a GovTech company? Get on our radar here.

GovTech100

BIZ NOTES

>ICYMI: Government Technology has a running resource guide for state and local government leaders, including offers from vendors, here.

WHAT WE'RE READING

New Jersey Using COVID-19 Self-Assessment Portal to Find Hotspots (Gov. Phil Murphy/Twitter)

Google Releases Data Reports to Show Changes in Mobility by County (Google)

Data Suggests Virus is Hitting African Americans Harder in Michigan (Kat Stafford/Twitter)

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