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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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Earlier this month, the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation released a report outlining numerous tech-driven stimulus proposals to help the United States be better prepared for pandemics in the future.
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Emergency services in New Hampshire and Massachusetts are already getting these addresses as a result of authorization by their respective state agencies. At present, that's not happening in Maine.
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An online platform called Aloha Trace is meant to track the spread of coronavirus throughout the state of Hawaii. The online survey focuses on respondent symptoms, location and movement in the community.
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Indicating the number of COVID-19 cases in a ZIP code does not necessarily identify the patients. But, the chances that a patient could be identified increase as health departments release additional information.
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The recovery from COVID-19 will be as consequential in shaping communities as the immediate crisis itself. To prepare, state, local and community leaders must prioritize their data capacity now to ensure recovery.
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The U.S. Digital Response is a volunteer effort made of some 3,500 technology experts. Their mission is to help all levels of government meet increased service demands during the COVID-19 crisis.
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Two online surveys using data science both aim to collect and analyze how the coronavirus pandemic is affecting Houston and its surrounding areas. Both surveys are have launched and are an initiative by Rice University.
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City officials can now easily view zoning maps, land use, environmental data, infrastructure, signs, ADA improvements, parcel information, parks and other data layers within the mapping system.
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Big tech companies, like Google, are sharing data from your smartphones to help governments in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. The situation has raised concerns among privacy advocates.
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Plus, government support groups launch a new COVID-19 local action tracker, the Civic Innovation Challenge kicks off with $9 million in funding, and the New York State Digital Service is now hiring.
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The groups, representing more than 300 police chiefs, 87 county sheriffs and about 10,400 officers, are asking the Department of Health to share COVID-19 infection locations so they can take precautions in responding to calls at the addresses.
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Research indicates people would be willing to give up privacy to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Rather than trying to track the novel coronavirus online like several other studies, researchers in Missouri are trying to measure topics of concern, subjectivity, social distancing and public sentiment.
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The company disclosed location data from individual smartphones to inform government officials about how people are moving in response to the pandemic. The search giant claims the initiative will help fight the virus.
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It's important to strike a balance between protecting Americans' privacy and having accurate statistics for governments and businesses to make data-based decisions.
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Normally, that information would be shielded to comply with patient confidentiality law, but Alabama and Massachusetts determined that the benefits to public safety outweigh privacy concerns.
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A recently launched dashboard is showing users where people are obeying stay-at-home orders or not. The tool uses anonymized cellphone location data to identify where people are congregating during stay-home orders.
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The discrepancies in Missouri seem to be all about new technology, old practices, mixed messages, and health departments that are trying hard to understand the pandemic that is in front of them.
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