Delaware Department of Technology and Information (DTI)

08/28/2026

Shout-out to DTI's Location Intelligence Team members Kym Kelly and Deb Sullivan for their great Kent County Delaware Dept. of Public Works creating these maps!

🦌🚨2026/27 Wildlife Area Hunting Maps Are Now Available!🚨 🦆

Planning your hunts for the upcoming season? The 2026/27 Wildlife Area Hunting Maps are now available online!

These maps provide hunters with important information about Delaware’s Wildlife Areas, including property boundaries, access points, parking areas, roads, designated hunting areas and other site-specific information.

Before heading into the field, take a few minutes to review the maps for the Wildlife Areas you plan to hunt and familiarize yourself with the property and any applicable regulations.

View the link to the 2026/27 Wildlife Area Hunting Maps is in the comments!

Good luck this season, hunt safely and responsibly, and Know Before You Go! 🎯🌲

08/26/2026

Meet the unofficial DTI support team for our Chief Administrative Officer. They can't fix your VPN, but they will absolutely fix your mood. Happy , Theodore and Eleanor!

08/25/2026

Big news at DTI! Please join us in welcoming Tina Donbeck as our new Chief Technology Officer!

Tina brings more than 25 years of technology leadership experience, most recently as CIO at a federal agency in Washington, D.C. She'll lead DTI's work on application development, data management, and AI as we continue improving digital services for Delawareans.

"I'm honored and excited to join DTI and support Governor Meyer's vision for delivering government services more effectively and efficiently for all Delawareans," said Donbeck.

Welcome to Team DTI, Tina!

See the full press release here: https://news.delaware.gov/2026/08/25/245439/

08/21/2026

Three days. 40+ students. 10 state agencies. One big question. Can AI actually make government work better?

That's what Hennovate the State set out to answer this week at UD's FinTech Innovation Hub. Students from UD, Penn State, and local high schools teamed up with state employees who brought real problems to the table, from records management to transportation planning to child support services. Mentors from AWS, Google, Microsoft, and NVIDIA jumped in too, helping teams turn ideas into working prototypes in just three days.

This is what happens when government opens its doors to fresh thinking. Some of these ideas might just show up in the tools Delawareans use every day.

Hatching bold ideas for the First State.

For more information, please see the entire press release here:https://news.delaware.gov/2026/08/21/ud-and-state-agencies-team-up-for-ai-hackathon/


University of Delaware
Matt Meyer

08/15/2026

Happy World Honey Bee Day! DTI is buzzing about it for reasons beyond honey.

Bees ran a data network long before we did. When a scout bee finds a good food source, they come back to the hive and do a waggle dance that tells the rest of the colony the direction, distance, and quality of the find. It's a coded signal the whole hive can read and act on. Not so different from how our own systems pass information along: encode it, send it, let the network respond.

We also want to give a shoutout to Brockmeyer, an amazing partner and beekeeper. We're looking forward to learning more about the incredible work of raising honey bees AND keeping Delawareans connected!

Happy from all of us at DTI!

08/15/2026

Meet Zoe.🐾

She's the newest member of a DTI employee's family, and she's already got everyone wrapped around her paw!

Thanks to a new partnership between Delaware Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS), Division of Public Health Office of Animal Welfare (OAW) and Petco Love Lost, if Zoe ever wandered off, her family's chances of getting her back just got a lot better!

Here's how it works: upload a photo of a lost or found pet, and AI photo-matching technology compares it against listings from shelters and pet owners across the country. Delaware is the first state in the nation to use this system statewide, building on a lost and found registry OAW has run since 2016. Another great example of how AI can be safely leveraged to solve real-world problems.

Petco Love Lost has already reunited more than 250,000 pets with their families nationwide. Now Delaware pet parents have that same network working for them!

Learn more about this initiative at animalservices.delaware.gov. 🐾

08/14/2026

08/14/2026

The countdown is on! The Henovate the State Hackathon is almost here, bringing together some of Delaware’s brightest graduate and senior undergraduate minds for an inspiring 3-day challenge, August 17-19. Hosted by the First State AI Institute at the University of Delaware in partnership with the State of Delaware, this annual event empowers students to tackle real-world issues facing our state government using the power of AI and Machine Learning. Although registration is now closed, stay tuned for future opportunities to get involved and witness innovation in action!

A huge THANK YOU to the incredible State agencies supporting our next generation of tech leaders with generous donations:
Delaware Division of the Arts
Delaware Department of Transportation (DelDOT)
Delaware Division of Motor Vehicles
Delaware Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS)
Delaware Children's Department - DSCYF
And also to the many other agencies that offered assistance!

08/06/2026

🚨 Registration Is Now Open for the 2027 LIFE Conference! 🚨

Join us on January 27, 2027, at Bally's Dover Conference Center for the 2027 LIFE Conference: From Advocacy to Action.

Whether you're a self-advocate, family member, professional, educator, policymaker, or community partner, the LIFE Conference offers a full day of learning, networking, and inspiring conversations focused on advancing opportunities for people with disabilities.

🗓️ Date: January 27, 2027
🕗 Time: 8:00 AM – 4:30 PM
📍 Location: Bally's Dover Conference Center

✅ Register today and learn more at: https://lifeconferencede.org

Help us spread the word! Please like, share this post, and invite your friends, family, colleagues, and community members to attend. The more people who see this, the more voices we can bring together to create meaningful change.

We look forward to seeing you as we move From Advocacy to Action!

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