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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) grants nearly $200,000 to Factom, the blockchain innovations company, to protect the national power grid. The project seeks to protect the security of millions of devices. The U.S.Department of Energy awarded the funds on July 12.

The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services says scammers are targeting people who receive unemployment benefits.

Social media is a tool that might be employed successfully by many departments. It needs to be a child of a greater communications plan (which includes marketing, public relations, community relations and heaven knows what else). The communications plan must be a child of the business plan. In other words, good social media serves the goals of the corporation, not one silo or another, and the corporation does not serve social media any more than it does the phone.

The US Department of State has entered into a partnership with civil society organizations in Indonesia to hold a TechCamp conference

The state government is adopting a cutting edge technology to help enhance efficiency in governance. Already the government has completed its first blockchain pilot in the fields of health, supply chain, documents and SSC certificates. A detailed report has been prepared to go in for extensive use of blockchain technology in various government departments. A regulatory sandbox, which will be a common framework for adopting blockchain technology, will be prepared in the next five to six months."