Paul W. Taylor, Ph.D., is the editor of Governing. He also serves as the chief content officer of e.Republic, Governing’s parent organization, as well as senior advisor to the Governing Institute. Prior to joining e.Republic, Taylor served as deputy Washington state CIO and chief of staff of the state Information Services Board (ISB). Dr. Taylor came to public service following decades of work in media, Internet start-ups and academia. He is also among a number of affiliated experts with the non-profit, non-partisan Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) in Washington, D.C.
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Plus, more tax software woes, fintech financial raises for building projects soften for 2020, Texas school district loses millions in phishing scam, and Americans would sell their privacy out for cheap on Facebook.
Plus, 50-State Fiscal Forecast Looking Up, New Bonding for CA Public Schools, and Privatization of NYC Public Housing.
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The fourth annual GovTech 100 list will be released this week.
Faced with the prospect of up to a third of jobs being eliminated by automation in the next decade, governments are taking another look at Universal Basic Income.
A nonprofit helped Athens, Ga., address this often-ignored need and wants to expand its services.
MIT researchers are trying something new to see if they can explain -- if not repair -- the relationship between the public and the government.
Going against the FBI's ransomware advice is one way state chief information officers are thinking for themselves.
Data now informs almost everything the public sector does, and it also informs on us.
When government gets too much of a good thing, can open-source technology help?
Austin Mayor Steve Adler and several other city leaders discuss their experience at this year's South by Southwest conference.
Mayor Karen Freeman-Wilson of Gary, Ind., and Mayor Darrell Steinberg of Sacramento spoke on a special SXSW preview episode of Governing's newest podcast, Go Public.
NYCx and Urban-X have similar names but different models for coming up with better ways to deliver government services.
Four cities -- Pittsburgh, St. Paul, the District of Columbia and San Francisco -- field-tested collaborative approaches to paying for things that cities need.
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Going deep on The Districts' program and purpose.
A pop-up podcast recorded with a live audience that captures key learnings from the cities that learned them - detailed here with a full transcript.