Pew Charitable Trusts has founded a new five-member broadband alliance, Opportunity Broadband, designed to ensure that investments in closing the digital divide and providing universal, affordable broadband are rolled out in an equitable way, the trust announced.

A new piece of legislation introduced in the Senate aims to update guidance for how Federal agencies go about providing specialized or technical services to state and local governments (SLGs). The bill would update existing guidance which was put in place in 1969. Introduced by Sens. Gary Peters, D-Mich., Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., and Steve Daines, […]

The State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) released a landscape scan detailing the needs and priorities of state members when it comes to strengthening K-12 cybersecurity readiness.

In the last few years, the city of St. Louis has become a hub for public and private innovators of geospatial intelligence (GEOINT).

The City University of New York (CUNY) is using $8 million of Federal stimulus funding to develop CUNY Online, a new initiative to build online degree capacity at the university system and produce high-quality online courses and programs.

New York Governor Kathy Hochul has announced new actions to increase transparency and access to public records.  

New legislation introduced by Sens. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., and John Cornyn, R-Texas would codify into Federal law the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) program, and provide for a pilot program for state and local governments to deploy the cybersecurity technologies that the CDM program offers.

Loyola University Maryland’s Sellinger School of Business has opened a new data analytics visualization lab which is intended to help students interpret, manipulate, and present large amounts of data.

The United Negro College Fund (UNCF) has announced plans for a new online platform for community learning, HBCUv.

New Mexico State University (NMSU) has named Thomas Bunton as its new associate vice president and chief information officer.