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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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City Innovate published more than 50 challenges from state and local governments across the country. Tech companies will now have the opportunity to propose solutions for the governments to try out.
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The rebranding follows a change of headquarters in 2017, leadership changes in 2018, a few new software tools and a transition away from professional services and toward full-time software development.
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Cityworks, which serves utilities and local governments, has been doing business independently since the late 1990s, but it is now joining the publicly traded multinational software company Trimble.
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CivicPlus has added another competitor to its ever-expanding suite of integrated communications software in SeeClickFix, a tool that has offered citizens ways to use mobile devices to report issues à la 311.
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Absent funding, a San Francisco-based startup’s meandering, seven-year history courting various technologies — from bond-sale software to blockchain to broadband networks — has reached an impasse.
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The city has joined the national Startup in Residence program to partner with tech startups and find new solutions to problems like missed trash collections and communicating the dangers of possible flooding.
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New tools from one of the nation’s top police-tech companies, a new body camera and a cloud-based RMS, debuted last month at several police departments in California trying to address a few 21st-century concerns.
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CentralSquare and Genetec are integrating their public safety software together in the latest of a long string of gov tech company partnerships this year. This move is meant to improve awareness of emergency responders.
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By moving from a few expensive, sophisticated water quality sensors to a lot of cheaper, less sophisticated ones and using AI on the resulting data, this young startup thinks it can change things for utilities.
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With major partners like Apple, Google and Microsoft already in its corner and more than $90 million in total fundraising, the New York-based startup is poised to continue expanding its footprint in the U.S. and abroad.
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The company, which is one of the largest website-builders for local government in the U.S., is partnering with the Canadian startup Civil Space to work more resident feedback into its platform.
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Security is government IT's No. 1 priority, but startups like to "move fast and break things." At the TechCrunch Disrupt conference, three security professionals gave advice on how tech companies can reduce risk.
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With millions in new investments and two new board members, the Israeli company’s cloud-based AI platform is preparing to expand across North America and further develop its traffic-safety platform.
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Florida has passed a bill that could require local governments to submit financial data in a machine-readable format. California and the federal government are also considering bills. Here's how it could help cities.
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SponsoredFleet adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) is on the rise. With government targets to cut carbon emissions, the continued push to reduce fleet costs, and the increasing choice and affordability of EVs, this trend will only continue.
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The e-bidding platform and online marketplace says it now includes about 78,000 small and minority-owned businesses in the United States competing for $3.4 billion in annual contract value.
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A new mobile app under development by the department and MobilePD proposes to notify residents about suspects in their area in real time, and eventually offer live chat and crime-reporting features.
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Lacuna, a young startup based in California, wants to help local government set up the infrastructure necessary to gather and analyze data from scooter-share, bike-share, ride-hailing and more.
