The San Jose City Council recently approved the California city’s first budget allocation dedicated to advancing the use of artificial intelligence to improve city services. “This budget allocation ...

State and local governments are under real pressure to move from experimentation to execution for artificial intelligence. Constituents expect faster services, more transparency and digital ...

In 2025, a growing number of states have sought to identify and block access to software or websites they deem security or data privacy threats to state devices and networks; namely, foreign-owned AI ...

The National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) recently published its 2026 Federal Advocacy Priorities, setting the agenda for how state technology leaders want to partner with ...

In September, the National Association of State Chief Information Officers and Accenture released a report on states’ use of generative artificial intelligence to support citizen services. In the ...

Congress has given the State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program a double reprieve this month, but state and local officials say they’re still waiting for real certainty — and real money. As part of ...

AI is set to revolutionize citizen services, but effective governance, private sector collaboration and strategic change management are crucial for success. Artificial intelligence is fundamentally ...

Amy Glasscock, NASCIO’s program director for innovation and emerging issues and author of the report, said most states are ...

States are making measurable progress in building privacy programs. The NASCIO survey found that only 18% of states now ...

Disconnected systems, funding gaps and cultural resistance remain the biggest barriers to building enterprise identity ...

In the year ahead, governments will operationalize artificial intelligence, automate cybersecurity, redesign digital workplaces and rightsize hybrid clouds to improve citizen services. These trends ...

The Public Technology Institute recently hosted a webinar on this year’s outlook with support from the National Association of State Chief Information Officers. State and local government CIOs are ...