Download report: Development of Local Government Resilient Microgrids The New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Center for Resilient Design announces...
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Bloustein Local, NJMEL collaborate to promote Cybersecurity Month
To promote October 2019 as Cybersecurity Month, Bloustein Local and its partner, the Municipal Excess Liability Joint Insurance Fund collaborated on...
Cybersecurity and Technology Management Guidance for Local Government
Over the last few years, the center has worked with the NJ Municipal Excess Liability Fund and other organizations to develop guidance on managing...
America’s Cities Are Running on Software From the ’80s
“New Jersey residents are among the nation’s best educated and most affluent voters, but they have appeared content over the years to leave politics...
How a Rutgers lecturer is helping local governments secure their systems: BTN LiveBIG
With increasing speculation about the role the Russian government may have played in the 2016 election and what tactics they might have used,...
What government leaders need to know about cybersecurity and technology
Marc Pfeiffer, Assistant Director of the Bloustein Local Government Research Center and a technology consultant for the New Jersey Municipal Excess...
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Stakeholder and Subject Matter Expert Feedback Regarding the Content of a New Jersey Ocean Acidification Action Plan
This report summarizes stakeholder and subject matter expert feedback regarding the potential elements and content of a New Jersey Ocean Acidification (OA) Action Plan. Feedback was provided by twenty-eight individuals through a stakeholder engagement process which...
Tech Fitness for Local Elected Officials and Administrators
These articles were designed to help local government leaders develop “tech fitness” for their organizations. The idea of tech fitness is to ensure that organizations can meet expectations for technologically driven services, which today, include most government...
AI in Local Government, Helpful or Harmful?
Chatbots are software programs that use natural language processing to have conversations with people. Also called conversational agents, they can answer questions, provide recommendations, and complete tasks. Leading companies like Google, Microsoft, and Amazon, and...
TECH UPDATES: What Municipal CAOs Need to Know, Part 1: Tech Fitness and Cyber Hygiene
There are two basic elements of technology that every municipality must have. Most places already do this, but it doesn’t hurt to highlight them. The first is an expert to advise you and your governing body on technology issues. As with other experts you hire—a police...