Category Archives: regulatory trend

Regulatory Trend. Agency Shares Data with App Developers for Transportation Apps. Public Private Partnership for Transportation Coders

The State: Virginia

The goal of the public-private partnership:  “optimizing opportunities for innovative collaboration and investment in Virginia’s transportation system”

The data shared with the private sector: 22 different data sets, with initial data sets including traffic volumes, speed limits, travel advisories, lane closures, crashes, truck restrictions, traffic sensors, incidents, sign messages and locations, paving schedules, short- and long-term weather events, the Six-Year…

Technology Healthcare TREND. Medicaid and Telehealth. 3 Bits Informed Intel from the East.

Maryland is offering its Medicaid patients a Telehealth App with these policy goals:

  •  By offering emergency room telehealth visits, Maryalnd estiamtes it will cut down on Medicaid ER costs
  • It can help connect patients to medical professionals, such as where to find services
  • Allows for prescriptions to be called in after a telehealth visit

State Government Tech | Maryland Offers Medicaid Users Free Telemedicine App

3 Ways State and Local Government Struggle with Cybersecurity

  • Lack of cyber security funding
  • Lack of cyber security talent (see above, talent and government wages don’t align)
  • Threats are constantly evolving which takes time, money and talent to stay on top of properly
    • hackers target weakeness such as negligent insiders & unpatched vulnerabilities that leave agencies susceptible to risk

GCN | Why state and local government still struggle with cybersecurity

Consumer Tech Assoc. Recommends Consistent Education Policy for Student Data Security. Bonjour Education Contractors

The Consumer Tech Association filing with the Commerce Department recommends government action on cybersecurity/datasecurity policies for education because there are so many differnt players in education.

The recommendations that we may soon see in Education Procurement Contracts:

  • market driven solutions e.g. contractors should step up and talk about their student data security protocols
  • instead of government checklists, we need nimble polcies that can adapt as tech changes
  • public-private…

3 Ways State Policies Stay Innovative to Beat the Tech Curve

In 2016, California created the State Innovation Lab.

California maintains an Office of Digital Innovation.

The policy goal in California is to “create novel, deployable technologies that address needs identified by state entity partners — with a particular focus on open-sourced technology.”

State Tech | How Innovative States Stay Ahead of the Tech Curve

Data TREND. 3 Ways Counties are managing body camera data.

Body cameras- love them, hate them- they collect data and a lot of data.

Lots of people support body cameras:

  • 2/3 of police support body cameras
  • 60% of the public supports body cameras
  • Harris County Sheriff’s Office deployed 2500 body cameras

Body cameras are everywhere in law enforcement, so how are counties handling all that data?

  • Harris Co. manages manages approximately 10PB of digital evidence
  • Harris County’s 10PB of digital evidence is expected to double in 3-5 years
  • Harris County…

38 Governors Sign CyberSecurity Compact. 3 Reasons Why & 4 Key Policy Issues.

National Governors Association is pushing for state reform of cyber security laws because:

  • The federal government is too slow & too inactive
  • Cyber security is not just an IT issue.
  • Cyber Security is a  technology issue, a health issue, an education issue, a public safety issue, an economic issue and a democracy issue

The National Governor’s Association initiative, Meet the Threat, calls for:

  • instituting cybersecurity governing bodies
  • organizing computer crime units for law enforcement…