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Colin Wood

former staff writer

Colin Wood wrote for Government Technology and Emergency Management from 2010 through most of 2016.

Sunlight Foundation Stops Search for a Director, Contemplates Future

Decline in funding and the absence of a leader have the open government advocacy nonprofit searching for new partners and a new identity.

September 20, 2016
· Colin Wood
Cloud & Computing

How Digital is Your State?

Results of the 2016 Digital States Survey indicate that the effort states are putting into innovation, collaboration and aligning their investments with citizens' priorities has never been higher.

September 16, 2016
· Colin Wood
Syracuse, N.Y., Tests Technology that Predicts Water Main Breaks

The predictive modeling tool was created by a public-private team of coders and data scientists and funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies' Innovation Team program.

September 16, 2016
· Colin Wood
Workforce & People

Council of Global City CIOs Launches to Share IT Frameworks, Principles, Policies, Code

The goal of the group is to share such things so city leaders can use them to make things happen.

September 12, 2016
· Colin Wood
Workforce & People

White House Announces the First Federal Chief Information Security Officer

Gregory Touhill, a retired brigadier general and deputy assistant secretary of cybersecurity and communications for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, has been named as the first federal CISO.

September 08, 2016
· Colin Wood
Cloud & Computing

Oregon Joins CJIS-Compliant Amazon Web Services Cloud

Oregon is the fourth state to give its police access to AWS Cloud.

September 08, 2016
· Colin Wood
Winners in Virginia's Governor's Workforce Innovation Challenge Announced

Two winning teams were selected, and will get an opportunity to see their ideas come to life and improve the workforce in Virginia.

September 07, 2016
· Colin Wood
Workforce & People

U.S. Office of Personnel Management Names New CIO

On Sept. 6, David De Vries, deputy CIO for the Department of Defense, was named the department's new CIO.

September 06, 2016
· Colin Wood
Public Safety

Rethinking Justice: Can Data-Driven Approaches Remove Politics and Bias from Policing?

Modern technology is generating data that allows criminal justice to add shades of gray to what has long been viewed as a black and white issue.

September 06, 2016
· Colin Wood
Public Safety

Rethinking Justice: Can Data-Driven Approaches Remove Politics and Bias from Policing?

Modern technology is generating data that allows criminal justice to add shades of gray to what has long been viewed as a black and white issue.

September 06, 2016
· Colin Wood