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StateScoop features the latest leaders and innovators, news and events in state and local government technology. StateScoop gathers top leaders from across government, academia and the tech industry to discuss ways technology can improve government, and to exchange best practices and identify ways to achieve common goals.

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'Friends' helped North Carolina 911's call centers withstand Hurricane Helene

December 11, 2025 • 25 mins
Pokey Harris, executive director of the North Carolina 911 Board, says the redundancy built into the state's next-generation 911 system helped the state withstand outages during a major hurricane last year.
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Centralized identity management: Okta's Christine Halvorsen and Pam Van Meter

August 5, 2024 • 28 mins
Okta Public Sector CTO and former FBI executive Christine Halvorsen joins Okta Principal Solutions Engineer Pam Vanmeter in a new podcast discussion on how modern Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) platforms help state and local agencies lower costs and improve customer experience and security. The podcast is hosted by Scoop News Group's Wyatt Kash and sponsored by Okta.
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UC Riverside's Matt Gunkel at Next '24

April 17, 2024 • 15 mins
UC Riverside's Matt Gunkel at Next '24 by StateScoop
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Covered CA's Karen Johnson at Next '24

April 17, 2024 • 17 mins
Covered CA's Karen Johnson at Next '24 by StateScoop
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NJ CISO Michael Geraghty at Google Cloud Next '24

April 16, 2024 • 12 mins
NJ CISO Michael Geraghty at Google Cloud Next '24 by StateScoop
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Rich Lavers at Google Cloud Next '24

April 16, 2024 • 12 mins
Rich Lavers at Google Cloud Next '24
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Amanda Stange at Google Cloud Next '24

April 16, 2024 • 2 mins
Amanda Stange at Google Cloud Next '24 by StateScoop
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Abdullah Hammoud at Google Cloud Next '24

April 12, 2024 • 5 mins
Abdullah Hammoud at Google Cloud Next '24 by StateScoop
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Priorities Special Episode — Elections

March 11, 2024 • 29 mins
On this week’s Priorities podcast, two election experts — Ted Allen, a professor at Ohio State University, and Victoria Bassetti, senior adviser at States United Democracy Center — join us to discuss voting as we head into the 2024 election season. With the U.S. 2024 presidential election 8 months away, this episode addresses how state and local governments are preparing for the upcoming election in their states, including election...
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Why state and local agencies need to prepare for cryptocurrencies

September 18, 2022 • 10 mins
Cryptocurrency has ushered in a new way for consumers and businesses to transfer value. That’s presenting new challenges — but also new opportunities — for state and local governments and law enforcement agencies, according to Kat Faley, director of state and local government at Chainalysis, a blockchain data and software service provider. “A lot of people think about crypto as this digital platform, which is certainly true. But w...
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Simplifying government operations to deliver a better user experience

May 30, 2022 • 9 mins
The State of Oklahoma and the City of Philadelphia are using key partnerships to simplify network architecture and lower operational costs, says Juniper Networks’ practice leader for state and local government, Ben Caruso. He highlights how state and local agencies can continue to optimize and security for their expanded networks for their remote workforce. Guest: Ben Caruso, Practice Leader, State and Local Government, Juniper Ne...
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Using partners to get to the cloud

April 11, 2022 • 11 mins
State and local government agencies are looking for more effective ways to deliver public services, including modernizing their IT systems to keep up with service demand. Many agencies, however, are still just starting their journeys to the cloud in earnest — assessing where to start, what’s needed and what to expect. While managing large migrations to the cloud may seem like a daunting task, organizations can still realize quick...
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Priorities — Season 7, Episode 1: Nelson Moe looks back at his tenure as Virginia's CIO

January 27, 2022 • 30 mins
StateScoop's Priorities Podcast has a new home on Soundcloud. Follow the revamped show at: https://soundcloud.com/priorities_podcast/ and at www.prioritiespodcast.com __ On today’s episode of the Priorities Podcast, the Pew Charitable Trusts are warning governors and legislators to be wary of an impending financial “cliff” after the recent influx of federal aid expires. statescoop.com/most-states-have-…-financial-cliff/ NASCIO’s ...
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Rise of multi-cloud as an emerging priority and focus for state governments

January 26, 2022 • 16 mins
Though the 2022 list of top priorities for state chief information officers looks similar that of 2021, state government remains in a time of great change as the coronavirus pandemic enters its third year, according to experts from Deloitte. Deloitte's Meghan Sullivan and Thomas Beck point specifically to the rise of multi-cloud as an emerging priority and focus for state governments. Using multiple cloud instances and providers h...
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Building robust identity and access management tools

January 23, 2022 • 12 mins
State and local governments have made “massive strides,” on their ability to deliver citizen services in response to the coronavirus pandemic, but there’s still quite a bit of work to be done, according to Auth0’s Salman Ladha. “I think we’re moving in the right direction,” says Ladha. “Not only has identity and access management jumped in terms of its priorities, but also on the tools [agencies] are looking to implement.” Guest:...
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Building greater digital equity for constituents to access government services

January 16, 2022 • 15 mins
The shift in the workforce landscape has made upgrading and improving network infrastructure a necessity. In a new podcast, Cisco and Presidio discuss how state and local agencies confront the digital divide across communities in the U.S. and ensure constituents can access resources with reliable broadband connectivity. Guests: Meghan Steele, Senior Director, U.S. Public Sector East, Cisco and Dan Lohrmann, Field CISO, Public Sect...
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Priorities — Season 6, Episode 12: 2021 Year-in-Review

December 13, 2021 • 23 mins
StateScoop editors Colin Wood and Benjamin Freed review some of the year's top trends.
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Post-pandemic, state IT is in a ‘time for reflection and change’

November 29, 2021 • 17 mins
As state government information technology leaders gathered for their first in-person conference since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, industry leaders say the moment offers government a “time for reflection and change.” On a new StateScoop podcast, underwritten by Tanium, Jennifer Axt and Gary Buonacorsi said the response to the pandemic has changed the way state CIOs are thinking, and will radically shift how they operate...
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Priorities — Season 6, Episode 11: Infrastructure Week

November 18, 2021 • 27 mins
NASCIO's Matt Pincus and New Jersey CISO Michael Geraghty break down the influx of federal funding for broadband and cybersecurity.
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Using AIOps to improve IT performance

October 30, 2021 • 12 mins
CIOs are constantly challenged to deliver more IT services, typically without added resources. One way they and their IT departments are overcoming that challenge is by deploying AI-powered observability and operations platforms, says Willie Hicks, public sector chief technology officer at Dynatrace. These newer generation platforms can vastly improve the ability for IT and security teams to identify application dependencies and ...
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