The Center for Digital Government put out their annual list of city governments
that know how to do digital public service. Rating the top 10 in each
of four population sizes (and hoping to take advantage of a slow US
news week) the CDG rated #1: Virginia Beach, VA
(big cities), Des Moines, IA (upper-medium cities), Denton, TX and
Ogden, UT (tied in lower-medium) and Redmond, WA (bitty burgs).
Details on the survey and its results will come with the new year, I imagine, but here's what they say the survey covered:
Survey questions focused on
implementation and adoption of online service delivery; planning and
governance; and the infrastructure and architecture that make the
transformation to digital government possible. Open-ended questions
were also asked that allowed cities to discuss their initiatives on
collaboration, enterprise activities, spatial data, policy priorities,
and structure data.
Other highlights:
- Virginia is a hot spot for digital
government
(though I wonder whether that shows a DC bias) with eight cities on the
list, with at least one in each size category. The state government
came in 3rd in the Digital States survey earlier this year (Michigan
#1).
- Colorado cities did pretty well, especially
compared to California/Silicon Valley. Boulder did not make the
list (which is not a big surprise to this former resident).
Aurora (5th, big), Colorado Springs (10th big), Pueblo (2nd, 75K+) and
Westminster (7th, 75K+) did make the list. LA ranked #3 among the
bigs, Santa Monica the same in the 75K+ category, Torrance #6 in
the 125k+ held up SoCal's end, but Walnut Creek and Palo Alto were the
only SillyValley mini-burgs listed (8 & 10, respectively)
- Madison, WI, which makes nearly every "City" list
published in a given year, was #4 in its category (125K+).
Nowhere else in Wisconsin made it.
Fun, and perhaps useful, info. The report will be more interesting, though.
9:51:50 PM 
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