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The newest Transit Tech Lab competition focuses on such areas as data modernization, infrastructure management and workflows. Finalists have a chance to work with city officials and enter procurement. -
The largest city in Kentucky recently hired a public-sector AI leader, and marked the first AI pilot for the local government. Louisville, in need of affordable housing, wants to build AI leadership.
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The company supplies digital licensing, lien and other automotive-documentation tools, and works with state agencies and other gov tech providers. CHAMP has raised more than $100 million since 2018.
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The company's new product, Image Logger, can recognize "assets" in and around roadways to help government compile catalogs of what they own, using video taken from vehicle-mounted smartphones.
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Since its inception in 2017, California-based software company Binti has been attracting government clients to its SaaS model to replace decades-old custom solutions with a more mobile, automated workflow.
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The company's inclusion is a sort of official recognition that it's one of the largest publicly traded corporations in the U.S. That's not common for tech companies who devote most of their business to the public sector.
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Govlaunch, the free “innovation wiki” resource for government, has teamed up with the recently formed civic tech startup accelerator CivStart to promote and support new businesses in the gov tech space.
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Be Heard started out making tools to verify constituents who wanted to talk to elected officials, then released a mobile app to store identity verification information. Now, it's moving past the public sector.
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By combining a county’s tax rolls with machine learning and more than 80 different data sources, The Exemption Project creates a ranked list of properties likely to have unqualified or unclaimed homestead exemptions.
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Deloitte's new GovConnect software suite, built on the Salesforce platform, is meant to help governments set up contact tracing programs, manage business reopenings and support remote work, among other things.
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The California-based permitting software giant has released its eighth civic application, designed to help fire departments automate aspects of safety and prevention such as permitting and inspection.
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Following other tech companies, the software giant’s president, Brad Smith, said Microsoft doesn’t sell facial recognition to police departments and won’t do so until there are federal laws to prevent its misuse.
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With more than $100 million of investment to date, the New York-based startup that uses IoT devices to share information about 911 callers with first responders has signaled a move toward partnering with hospitals.
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Following in Axon’s footsteps, the computer giant has vowed to drop facial recognition development and offered to work with Congress on technology policies to reduce racial bias in law enforcement.
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The Massachusetts startup has devised an online tool for local governments to draft, publish and automatically update their budgets in a way they hope is more user-friendly and accessible to citizens than the status quo.
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The Australian company Nearmap, which also operates in the U.S., has accumulated a catalog of high-resolution aerial images for 90 million parcels, and now it’s applying AI to learn when property owners make changes.
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RanMarine USA, which makes automated drones for cleaning waterways, and the pollution sensor startup Aclima are among four companies that will present their pilot projects June 18 at an online conference.
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Company Six’s founders are mum on details, but they say they’re making advanced technology more affordable and user-friendly, and giving officers more information to make decisions.
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The app, called GiveMeGreen!, has been undergoing tests in California and Indiana with positive feedback. By telling traffic lights when a cyclist is coming, it aims to make rides smoother and keep hands off buttons.
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Startups working with government agencies have had to pivot in response to the economic and health crises of recent months. Going forward, their innovation paired with public-sector mission will be critical.
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Partnering with a cloud company and professional organization for distribution, the machine learning company says its business intelligence tool can find and flag redundancies in technology contracts.
