Civic Innovation
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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. -
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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The AI Center for Civic and Social Good will let the public and the San Jose State University community learn about and work with AI technology through programming — at no cost to participants.
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Plus, Illinois Gov. Pritzker sets April as Innovation and Technology Month; Washington, D.C., forges new ride-share partnership; national civic tech leaders urge support for Digital Service Act, and more.
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San Francisco-based Remix is a gov tech company that has designed and continues to manage online platforms for the transit agencies within more than 350 municipal governments across the globe.
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A consortium of public and private stakeholders are rallying around three challenges: a path to smarter traffic management, access to fresh fruits and vegetables, and modeling future traffic congestion.
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The Alphabet-backed company has created a new app that it hopes will make it easier for people to study how other people use common spaces like parks to better inform decisions about those spaces.
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To further the partnership opportunities between cities and universities, the MetroLab Network and National Science Foundation have kicked off a national initiative to innovate complex community challenges.
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The civic tech group will follow up similar work in San Francisco by partnering with the district attorneys' offices in Los Angeles and San Joaquin counties.
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Plus, civic technologist details the best way to map the nation’s broadband speeds, Code for America is conducting its first Brigade Census, Digital Inclusion Week is now set for the first week of October, and more.
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A recent impact assessment has found that since Civic Bridge began back in 2015, the program has brought in nearly 24,000 total volunteer hours and an estimated $3.7 million of pro bono services.
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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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