Civic Innovation
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The new online platform brings together previously disparate center-based care resources in one searchable map. It features data on roughly 10,000 child-care providers. Filters include location and cost. -
The myAurora 311 Open Data Portal gives residents a detailed look at the city's non-emergency call traffic, service trends and response, and is part of a broader push to make city operations more transparent.
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Officials will refresh the site to eliminate customer issues including a delayed reflecting of precise balances. Changes to the village payment system are underway, and are in early stages.
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MOStopsCOVID.com will provide information regarding the safety of the vaccines, research and production processes, and more, serving as a new vaccine website to be used to help Missouri residents.
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The information gleaned by contact tracers is proving useful, feeding a growing database that Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker has cited as a guide in making decisions about pandemic restrictions.
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Plus, Seattle IT is now accepting applications for its long-standing Technology Matching Fund grants program, Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center wins TIME 2020 invention award, and more.
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Plus, New York City announces winning projects for its civic tech contest around protecting tenant rights; MasterCard extends its City Possible network; Boston revamps its online housing assistance platform; and more.
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A civic tech fellowship that was born out of crisis response earlier this year has now lead to nearly half a dozen successful digitization projects in New York City, with no sign of slowing down.
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Plus, the NDIA reaches a new 500-affiliate milestone amid a crisis that emphasizes importance of its work; Pittsburgh groups to host a month of GIS events; and Delaware has launched a COVID-19 alert app.
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Parts of Louisiana and the Navajo Nation face the biggest gaps.
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A computer scientist has created an interactive map where people can look up almost any address in 16 California counties including the entire Bay Area, and see the tax on that property and all surrounding ones.
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Plus, Colorado’s contract tracing app is seeing large buy-in from users within the state, the U.S. Digital Response publishes a social media playbook for government, and how to map election turnout change data.
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SponsoredRead more to see how Cisco helps the City of Buffalo in a 48-hour race for work-from-home unified communications.
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A project out of Georgia Tech has developed an online tool that could help state and local governments assess the risk of coronavirus spread at gatherings from dinner parties to protests in their regions.
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The last half-century or so has seen incredible but inequitable innovation in both private and public sectors, so it's on the next generation of innovators to make sure everyone has a seat at the table from the start.
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Plus, New York City is relaunching its Neighborhood Challenge initiative to benefit small businesses, a new report notes that government agencies benefit from collective wisdom for COVID-19 problems, and more.
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Woodbury County Auditor and commissioner of elections Pat Gill on Wednesday announced that the "WhereUVoteIA — Woodbury County" app is available for free download in both the Apple and Android app stores.
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The program, conducted jointly with the National League of Cities, will involve the governments issuing challenges and pilot-testing potential solutions. Possible focus areas include public health and micromobility.
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The 'Merced Recycles' app, launched by the Merced County, Calif., Regional Waste Management Authority, allows users to view trash pickup schedules and information on what bins items should be placed in.
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Plus, meet the winner of the international Call for Code Challenge for 2020, West Virginia is moving to Google Workspace in its agencies statewide, Indiana’s digital government portal hits user milestone, and more.
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Plus, Boulder, Colo., launches a beta website to gather user feedback; and a new Gallup/Knight survey finds that four out of five Americans worry disinformation will sway the presidential election.
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