Civic Innovation
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So-called drone entertainment offers cities like Aspen and Parker a diverting but less flammable option to Fourth of July fireworks displays. The latter may have the “boom factor,” but could also ignite a wildfire. -
City officials are building a comprehensive artificial intelligence ecosystem to support economic growth, by incentivizing businesses and enabling experimentation in what they call "the capital of AI."
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Ongoing work with Medici Land Governance has yielded a blockchain-enabled tool to aid in property searches and sales. The goal is to ease the transformation of thousands of vacant, abandoned or blighted properties.
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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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A phone app that is currently under development by two Augusta University researchers would help people know whether they are at risk for the novel coronavirus and whether they should get tested.
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Voatz, a mobile voting app that utilizes blockchain, has been part of successful election pilots in multiple states. But West Virginia, the first state to use Voatz, won't employ the app for its primary election in May.
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Michelle Thong, the digital services lead for the city of San Jose, Calif., was one of the founding members of the Office of Civic Innovation. Now she's leaving to join a tech company that works with government clients.
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With cannabis legalization spreading, the Massachusetts-based company is billing its mobile, all-purpose impairment app as an answer to a growing need for a validated test to keep stoned drivers in check.
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The MyTN phone app represents Tennessee's effort to put all of its government services on one platform. Development for the app will be continuous as IT reaches out to more and more state agencies for buy-in.
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Officials with the San Joaquin County Registrar of Voters Office are preparing for Super Tuesday by implementing new technologies, methods and systems they believe will mitigate possibilities of an inaccurate count.
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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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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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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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Plus, an AI-driven wire service aims to boost news coverage of local government; the Census Bureau is sharing information about its differential privacy plans; a rural Indiana county is working toward digital equity; and more.
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The Birmingham city council transportation committee has voted to approve a contract with ParkMobile to add pay by app parking payment options to Birmingham parking meters throughout the city.
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Plus, Code for America and L.A. County dismiss 66,000 marijuana convictions; Philadelphia’s Pitch and Pilot program tackles tap water with new challenge; and NYU calls on Congress to embrace citizen engagement tech.
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After trying Internet voting for overseas voters, West Virginia is expanding the option to those with physical disabilities. But MIT researchers now say they’ve found worrying flaws in the app the state has been using.
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The company, now called Be Heard, has launched a blockchain-based solution for verifying users' identities it thinks could help with things like municipal IDs. The twist: All information is stored on a person's device.
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The digital age is leaving behind some people with visual, cognitive or motor disabilities. A digital services company and an ADA consulting firm think they can help governments get up to code.
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Plus, a tracker follows the progress being made with affordable housing in Atlanta, a New York City plan takes aim at the digital divide, Missouri lawmakers consider a bill that would add a CDO, and more.
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Initially created in 2016 to allow reports of potholes, graffiti and abandoned vehicles, the app is now taking reports of illegal encampments and began allowing residents to purchase replacement trash cans.
