Athens-Clarke County Unified Government in Georgia announced on Sept. 2 that Hemant Desai was appointed the government’s new chief information officer (CIO) and Information Technology Department director, effective Sept. 28.

Georgia state employees will receive free artificial intelligence (AI) training under a new partnership with InnovateUS that will teach public sector workers how to use the technology responsibly.  

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is urging U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem to prioritize improvements to the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) program.

The panel discussion entitled “Evolving Cybersecurity for Evolving Threats” featured New Hampshire Chief Information Officer Denis Goulet, and Steve Hodges, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) with the Georgia Technology Authority. The panel also included Maria S. Thompson, State and Local Government Executive Government Advisor – Cybersecurity at Amazon Web Services, and Matt Singleton, Executive Strategist at CrowdStrike.

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp line-item vetoed $550,000 in proposed funding for technology aimed at reducing wait times for voters checking in at their polling places.

Eight states – Arizona, Connecticut, Georgia, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Oklahoma, and Utah – will offer residents digital driver’s licenses for Apple devices.

Georgia Governor Brian Kemp selected Shawnzia Thomas as the executive director of Georgia Technology Authority (GTA) and state CIO. The GTA Board of Directors recently affirmed Thomas’ selection.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) today released a series of exchanges from December 2016 to February 2017 between the department and members of Congress revealing Sen. Brian Kemp’s, R-Ga., accusation that DHS conducted unauthorized scans of Georgia’s Secretary of State networks and DHS’s denial of the accusation.

A Georgia state election commission voted on Thursday to replace the state’s current electronic voting systems with a computerized system that prints paper ballot receipts.

Bloomberg Philanthropies’ What Works Cities (WWC) initiative added five new partner cities: Athens, Ga.; Chula Vista, Calif.; Colorado Springs; Gainesville, Fla.; and Palmdale, Calif. With the new additions WWC is now partnering with 95 cities across the country. The WWC initiative is working to improve the effectiveness of local governments by enhancing their use of data […]