On this week’s episode of the Priorities podcast, Delaware CIO Jason Clarke is trying to bring high-speed broadband to “each and every home and roadway.

https://statescoop.com/delaware-spends-56-million-on-broadband-for-all-effort/

Rep. Jim Langevin is looking toward the next phase of federal cybersecurity legislation.

https://upgather.com/cybersecurity-modernization-sled/live

https://statescoop.com/jim-langevin-cybersecurity-modernization/

Nic Perez, Chief Technology Officer for Cloud at ThunderCat Technology and Brian Schoepfle, Manager, Partner Solution Architects at Amazon Web Services, explain how state and local agencies can get a return on cloud investment quickly.

In the news this week:

New York City Mayor Eric Adams wants an investigation of Illuminate Education, a software vendor for the Department of Education that experienced a data breach in January.

https://statescoop.com/new-york-city-schools-vendor-breach/

Boston has a new CIO.

https://statescoop.com/boston-mayor-cio-santiago-garces-julia-gutierrez/

A new Deloitte survey says many government leaders have shifted to long-term planning as the crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic begins to wane.

https://statescoop.com/deloitte-government-trends-post-covid/

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