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BISMARCK, ND (KFGO Prairie Public) - North Dakota continues to build out a new communication system for first responders. It's called SIRN, for State ...

SIRN stands for "State Interoperable Radio Network."

Rural Kansas has been left on the wrong side of the digital divide, but some new technology and fresh business models hold some hope for broadband in remote places.

North Dakota Hires Latvian Support For Our Outdated Technology. At least our doctors aren't still using leeches for our annual blood lettings. But North Dakota's Unemployment Insurance Program is running on a platform so old that we have to go to the medieval heart of Eastern Europe to find druids that are learned in it's ancient ways. We're talking about mainframe computers that are so old, a Commodore 64 can probably process circles around it. (Please note, if you get that reference, than you too are "so old"). Governor Doug Burgum made his fortune on riding the tide of technology. This is ...

North Dakota needed to hire Latvians to manage state's ancient computer system A college in Latvia still teaches a curriculum on this outdated programming language, so North Dakota opted to hire two Latvians to help manage and maintain the state's unemployment insurance mainframe. 7:00 am, Dec. 27, 2020 × North Dakota's unemployment insurance mainframe computer, similar to the 1980s system seen here, is so outdated the state had to look overseas to Latvia to find programmers to maintain it. Special to The Forum BISMARCK — The state of North Dakota has computer systems...