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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, meet the 2020 Innovations in American Government Award finalists; check out these five tips for cities doing data inventories; and take a look at this pair of new digital U.S. Census tools.
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At best, data from the Federal Communications Commission tells an incomplete story about broadband in the states. Here's what Wisconsin, North Carolina and West Virginia have done to paint a clearer picture.
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When Los Angeles set up a new system for collecting data from — and communicating rules to — emerging mobility companies, Uber refused to comply and lost its permit. Now, it's backing a group criticizing the data system.
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The New York city hopes to strengthen communication with software that would provide real-time data for officers on duty. The department said in a memo it wants to integrate 25 years of data into the system.
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There were at least 113 successful ransomware attacks on state and local governments last year, according to global cybersecurity company Emsisoft, and in each case, officials had to figure out how to respond.
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The San Francisco company hopes to make a dent in California’s housing crisis by giving homeowners and developers an interactive mapping tool to show them if and how they can build an accessory dwelling unit.
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Lee County, Ill., is using ChangeFinder, a software that identifies changes to building structures by comparing historical aerial photography to current photography, and it has spotted hundreds of new code violations.
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Statistics from Bay Area Rapid Transit revealed that passengers caused 37% of train delays 5 minutes or longer. Other numbers showed that law enforcement in the stations disproportionately affects African Americans.
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The Pittsburgh company is adding new features and more granular results to its software for analyzing pavement damage, with plans to move into larger cities and smaller counties in the future.
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Public servants who work with data in cities, counties and states have shared obstacles, including talent recruitment, converting complex ideas into simple language, synchronizing pilots with advance budgeting, and more.
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Maryland lawmakers are proposing to limit U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents’ access to the state’s database of licensed drivers. The bill would require an ICE agent to obtain a warrant if they want in.
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Governor Gavin Newsom promises that the state government will create a unified homelessness data system that will hold accurate information. The database may be in place by the end of the year.
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Plus, Pew publishes its report on the status of broadband work within state government, IBM announces the theme for the 2020 Call for Code Global Challenge, and a new report outlines civic engagement strategies.
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With a tap on a smartphone, more apartment renters are getting a taste of some of the conveniences once reserved for luxury homeowners thanks to smart home technology for everything from temperature control to lighting.
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The nonprofit and nonpartisan national civic tech group is working to help individuals and families that are eligible to receive the federal Earned Income Tax Credit, doing so by creating digital tools and more.
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Collecting census data online creates new risks to the accuracy and integrity of the information. Here's what to be aware of.
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Health-care professionals and lawmakers should be more concerned about patients’ data outside the clinical setting, said Jessica Golbus, a medicine fellow at the Michigan Medicine Frankel Cardiovascular Center.
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Her name is Clara — a nod to the Spanish word "claro" meaning clear — and she's a new virtual receptionist, a first-of-its-kind avatar equipped with artificial intelligence that helps visitors navigate the courthouse.
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