Civic Innovation
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The City Council has approved three contracts to replace its veteran accounting, payroll and human resources management software. A consulting firm will help with oversight and advisory services. -
The Marin County Digital Accelerator takes an agile approach to gov tech, moving fast to get work done. A recent project found a “single source of truth” to modernize planning and permitting.
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The Bismarck Municipal Court system handled nearly 87,000 new cases from 2020-2024 and saw a 40 percent caseload increase in 2024. Officials are examining what systems might be upgraded to handle the additional burden.
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The GSA's Office of Inspector General found that 18F disregarded several security rules and other governmental procedures, but the states it has recently contracted with say they're not concerned about similar issues.
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The program connects four Northern California cities with startups to create technologies aimed at improving housing, transportation, public safety and other community challenges.
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Combining data sets to see which of the states that signed onto a cooperative cloud RFP have shown room to grow in buying cloud services.
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The cloud-based startup competition includes backing from some big Silicon Valley venture capitalists.
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The county, in partnership with OpenGov, has published its financial data and other public records dating back to 2013 through its website.
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My Law is a cloud-based service that can be accessed from a computer or handheld device to help citizens present their own court cases as well as have access to statuses, evidence, case law and messaging.
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The city is partnering with Code for America in an automation project that will clear eligible convictions under California's marijuana legalization law.
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In Miami, which launched a new website and an open data portal in beta this year, Chief Innovation Officer Michael Sarasti was named its Director of Innovation and Technology on May 15.
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The company is one of 15 finalists for the contest.
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The New York City startup investor has taken on eight new companies.
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Also, the Defense Department launches an open source initiative, and Los Angeles creates a dashboard to visualize homeless shelter demand.
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The competition awards winners with cloud credits to help build out their projects.
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Now that Code for America has so much company in the civic tech space, the group is calling upon those who have voiced interest to get to work with them.
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Boston's chief data officer talks about the second iteration of city's open data platform.
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Simple Connect is just getting its feet on the ground, but its ambitions are large.
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Corporate dollars can be a boon to a startup. The infusion of cash can help bring a product to market or fund expansion, and a recognizable corporate logo can give an unknown startup visibility and creditably.
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The representative-contacting company has received its first venture capital injection.
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Plus, Democracy Works increases efforts to connect voters with election info, and Syracuse partners with Code for America to launch new info portal for businesses.
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