You might know Albuquerque as the setting for AMC's "Breaking Bad" TV series, but New Mexico's biggest city earned praise this year as one of the country's most "digital" cities . Albuquerque may be small, relative to digital powerhouses like New York City or Chicago or Los Angeles, but GovTech Magazine recently ranked it sixth in the United States for its use of technology in the public sector.

The city launched a streamlined 311 app for iOS, Android and the web in 2013, enabling residents to easily report non-emergency issues. Albuquerque has also relaunched a mobile-friendly city website with a growing number of digital services, and has published a trove of local information online to help people look up bus schedules, restaurants' health inspection scores and much more.

Albuquerque Mayor Richard Berry believes that going digital has helped the city government serve residents better. Since he was sworn in six years ago, Berry has been a key player in making this change happen -- but don't expect him to take credit. In an interview with The Huffington Post, he gave "all of the kudos" to his staff, IT people and the city's growing civic technology sector.

"We've come an impossibly long way, and we've had people come from all over the world to talk about this," Berry told HuffPost. "We're a leader in this, but we're still not where I want to be."