PTI Staff Contact: Dale Bowen, 202-626-2456.

Application Deadline: February 5, 2010

Does your city or county 311/Call Center stand out from others for its innovative use of technology; coordinated service, and citizen engagement?

PTI is excited to announce that, in 2010, the Citizen-Engaged Communities Designation Program will provide national recognition to local governments for best practices in the use of Citizen Relationship / Records Management (CRM) systems, coupled with 311 systems, web portal technology, telephony systems and mobile communications infrastructure.

Read more   02-03-2010

This Fairfax County, Virginia Procedural Memorandum establishes the policies and procedures governing content on the county’s public website, including all servers that serve content to the public on behalf of Fairfax County, and delineates procedures and responsibilities for approving content.

The memorandum includes the policies governing use of social media in the county.

Members: Read more   02-03-2010

PTI Staff Contact: Lisa C. Williams, 202-626-2467.

The 2010 PTI Technology Solutions & Innovations Conference at FOSE brings together local government officials and representatives from the private sector interested in learning about the technology issues, challenges and opportunities facing America’s cities and counties.

Read more   02-01-2010

PTI Staff Contact: Dale Bowen, 202-626-2456.

Using technology tools that promote transparency in municipal government is the leading technology topic of interest to local officials, according to a brief survey of National League of Cities (NLC) and Public Technology Institute (PTI) members.

Members of NLC’s Community Development and Infrastructure network and PTI’s Chief Information Officer (CIO) Council were polled in the survey and asked to rank their level of interest in having NLC and PTI provide information and resources to their local elected officials.

Thirty-one members of the two groups participated in this electronic survey. The five topics of most interest to both sets of members and the topics they would like their elected officials to receive more information about are:

Read more   02-01-2010

Friday, February 12, 2010, 3:00-4:15 PM ET

APCO International, Winbourne & Costas and PTI present this webinar on lessons learned from the creation and operation of multi-jurisdictional 3-1-1/9-1-1 call centers.

Read more   01-21-2010

PTI Staff Contact: Ronda Mosley, 937-667-4142.

Join no-cost ENERGY STAR® online training sessions and learn how to improve the energy efficiency of the nation’s commercial and industrial buildings by ten percent or more. Register now at this link.

Computer Power Management with ENERGY STAR

Tuesday, February 16 | | Tuesday, March 16, 1:00–2:00 PM ET

Computer Power Management is helping organizations realize energy and financial savings that are available by managing computer and monitor power settings. Organizations using this software can save up to $50 per computer annually.

Read more   01-20-2010

PTI Staff Contact: Alan Shark, 202-626-2445.

Call for Authors

Public Technology Institute (PTI) in cooperation with the National Association for State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) will publish the book CIO Leadership for States: Emerging Trends and Practices that will showcase the contemporary aspects of state CIO leadership.

We are now seeking experts in the 13 fields we have identified. We define experts liberally, as those with a track record studying or engaged in all aspects of state CIO leadership.

Read more   01-12-2010

PTI Staff Contact: Dale Bowen, 202-626-2456.

The 2010 CIO & Leadership Summit will be held on February 23-25, 2010, at the Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina in San Diego, California.

The CIO & Leadership Summit is an invitation-only event for a select group of the country’s brightest local government technology thought leaders.

Read more   01-07-2010

Produced by PTI for the Public Safety Foundation of America, this paper serves as a resource on critical application needs for public safety pertaining to the D-block of the 700 MHz spectrum.

When and how the 700 MHz D Block is ultimately allocated is critical to the deployment of advanced public-safety applications.

This spectrum band is exceptionally well suited for the new and demanding requirements of a new generation of video/data/voice devices.

Download this white paper

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