Civic Innovation
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The County Council signed off on $34 million in contracts to update the enterprise resource planning system, which manages a variety of processes. A councilman wondered if it might streamline other county functions. -
City Council members got an online tour of the new public-facing webpage, created as a reliable way to disseminate public safety information, earlier this week. It’s the latest update to an existing system.
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The U.S. Digital Response, a civic tech organization, has announced the recipients of its 2025 Digital Service Champions Awards, which honor state and local government modernization efforts.
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As recently as five years ago, many thought Google Fiber might be a path to citywide high-speed Internet connectivity, but as Google’s plans have changed, government must now look to other options.
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Midland County, Mich., has been using the same in-car cameras for two decades, and they're starting to fail. So now, with aid in the form of grants, the Sheriff's Office is buying new cameras for cars and officers.
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“The new technology is faster and more efficient, and because there is only going to be one type of machine, training election workers will be much easier, too,” a county Board of Elections commissioner in New York said.
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The Democratic senator wants state and local government to get smarter about how it uses technology, following in the footsteps of relatively recent federal outfits such as the U.S. Digital Service.
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According to the former chief digital officer of Boston, one of the nation’s most ahead-of-the-curve cities in digital technology, the key to the future of high-tech government is cultural transformation.
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Plus, Michigan to host its first state procurement summit; Boston launches new birth certificate app; and 18F reflects on its first five years of existence in a new blog.
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Those involved with the development and use of online dispute resolution platforms see opportunities for the systems that extend well past divorces and small claims court.
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They include four U.S. cities: San Jose, Calif.; Austin, Texas; Wichita, Kan., and Erie, Pa. The network is meant to bring together cities from around the globe to collaborate on solving common problems.
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Brian Dillard was appointed as San Antonio’s chief innovation officer earlier this month, which puts him in charge of a host of initiatives such as local smart city efforts, innovation zones and the CivTechSA program.
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The city has selected Hanna Pickering as its next director of IT and Lena Geraghty as its first director of innovation and performance management. They will both start work for the local government there on March 25.
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Plus, Stanford University policy lab releases data on millions of U.S. traffic stops; three takeaways from Open Data Day 2019; and San Antonio passes a new cross-agency data-sharing agreement.
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If signed into law, the bill would make Georgia the only state to use ballot-marking technology for every election day voter. As of right now, Georgia is one of only four states whose machines lack a paper trail.
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A panel from varied sectors discuss the potential of tech — from the companies that profit from it to the institutions that teach it in schools — to facilitate social impact in the years to come.
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It will cost some money to update the Fresno County, Calif.'s voting machines, but it needed to replace the 20-year-old equipment anyway. Now it's moving to larger election centers, a move gaining steam in California.
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It’s garnered international acclaim, draws in the famous and unknown, but no one can really tell you what it is. South by Southwest is best experienced in person, but photos are the next best thing.
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The program is funded by a $250,000 two-year grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, which is designed to equip local libraries to lead their communities in closing the homework gap.
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The cities, which are right next to each other, are pursuing different vendors and different storage solutions. As a result, one is spending far less than the other. Both hope to equip officers soon.
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When most people say "smart city," they're talking about self-driving cars and sensors that detect crime. When Lima, Ohio, uses the term, they mean modernizing old systems that are holding them back.
