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The city recently launched its Kensington Dashboard, which offers a comprehensive picture of the area through data, to inform residents and stakeholders about progress toward resolving its challenges. -
A new type of artificial intelligence is helping city governments spot problems like potholes faster and with more accuracy than ever before, but government must maintain traditional privacy standards.
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Northlake, located in North Texas, turned to Envisio dashboard technology to help manage capital planning. One of the town’s officials and an Envisio executive talk about the deployment and the future of dashboards.
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Plus, Illinois Tech team develops environmentally sound digital currency; the National League of Cities unveils a new digital equity playbook; Washington approves $44.6 million of broadband grants; and more.
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A Pittsburgh city staffer took it upon himself and his dog, Porter, to map the city’s recreation areas on their daily walks. With a GPS unit in tow, the pair created an open data portal residents can use to find trails.
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Last weekend, the Maryland Department of Health took its website offline after cyber criminals attacked the site. The site has been restored since, and officials say no data was stolen.
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Federal researchers have connected with utility provider EPB's fiber network that runs both its smart electric grid and a citywide high-speed broadband Internet network to find ways to defend the national power grid.
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Researchers have long known that communities of color, which tend to be lower income, are more vulnerable to air pollution. A new study using Google Street View cars quantifies the exact size of those disparities.
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After working with the North Carolina county for nearly three decades, former CIO and current Area Manager of Innovation Debbie Brannan has accepted a position with digital service and payment facilitator PayIt.
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To support its goals and revitalize neighborhoods, the Baltimore City Department of Housing and Community Development uses GIS and location data that keeps records up to date and transparent for all stakeholders.
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As use of new technology by government continues to increase, experts and advocates in the space say that public servants should be keenly aware of the potential to exacerbate long-standing biases.
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The city of Gainesville, Fla., has selected a platform to manage the progress of its strategic vision. The new tool will help the city make informed decisions and increase transparency, officials say.
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A report finds that only 71% of residents in Joplin, Mo., have a broadband connection, a number well below the national average of 87%. Joplin knows it can't become a smart city with this kind of gap.
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This week, the city of Philadelphia released its Open Data Dashboard, a platform that displays recently published data sets to increase transparency and to serve as a resource for other organizations.
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Local police chiefs shared a number of observations about technology, transparency and the social responsibility of police departments during a webinar hosted by Veritone and Microsoft early last week.
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Making state history, Maryland now has a chief privacy officer in Laura Gomez-Martin and a chief data officer in Patrick McLoughlin. The appointments were announced yesterday by Gov. Larry Hogan.
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A new public-private partnership in Staten Island, N.Y., has led to a program that uses predictive analytics to identify those who are most likely to experience a fentanyl overdose.
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When COVID-19 broke out nationwide, the avalanche of related health data overwhelmed the federal government's outdated data infrastructure. More needs to be done if the country is to be ready for the next health crisis.
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The Miami-Dade Women's Fund, a nonprofit organization, launched a gender equity dashboard that highlights a recent increase in the pay gap between men and women in Miami-Dade County, Fla.
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Despite the California Consumer Privacy Act taking effect last year, how data is collected and used in workplace settings is still largely unregulated — even when it comes to remote workers logging in from home.
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The Privacy Principles for Mobility Data include seven guiding ideas for the public and private sectors as micromobility options like bikes and scooters become more ubiquitous across U.S. cities.
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