The recent Elastic Public Sector Summit offered several key takeaways into how government agencies could better handle data in order to improve citizen engagement and deliver public service more efficiently, according to Chris Townsend, vice president of public sector at search analytics company Elastic. First, tools that can rapidly transform large data sets into actionable insights must be deployed in order for agencies to keep pace with the demands of modern governance, Townsend said in a column published Friday on Government Technology Insider.

Source: ExecutiveBiz