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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CP Connect works with any online CMS or other communications channel of a citizen’s choice, including phone, text, email, social media or other websites.
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Charleston is the latest city to add an innovation officer to its governance structure, designating the position as one to find new and progressive ways to solve longtime municipal government challenges.
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City Manager T.C. Broadnax tapped Laila Alequresh, a veteran of public-sector technology innovation work in Los Angeles and Philadelphia, to lead the city's freshly created Office of Innovation.
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Using what is quite possibly the fastest RFP process in the gov tech space, a list of 700 applicant companies has been pared down in preparation for this year’s four-month program.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a new Office of Digital Innovation and innovation academy in the state's proposed 2019-20 budget. He's calling for significant change in state IT governance and procurement practices.
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A panel formed by Gov.-elect Brian Kemp decided on a computerized system which prints paper ballots after the citizen has voted, despite concerns of voter security and price that a paper ballot system would eliminate.
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Shreveport, La., is set to hire Keith Hanson as the city's first chief technology officer. The IT leader is a native of the city who started a software development company there eight years ago.
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The company, which offers a platform for government to systematically try out new technology and ideas, has launched in pilot-happy Las Vegas, Pittsburgh and San Mateo County, Calif. It's also working to double its team.
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Plus, Louisville, Ky., maps available scooter and bike locations; a new book looks at shining examples of municipal fiber infrastructure; Code for Baltimore to host human-centered design lunch and learn; and more.
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Although the position is an increasingly common one for local governments, cities that don’t yet have one must still carefully weigh a number of factors before deciding to make the move.
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One of California Gov. Gavin Newsom's first acts after inauguration was to sign an executive order creating a new path for state agencies to buy technology, pushing procurement in a more modern direction.
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Plus, Boston is looking for 2019 analytics summer fellows; Los Angeles unveils its new ShakeAlertLA earthquake alarm app; International Open Data Conference identifies key themes for the work’s ‘second phase;’ and more.
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Plus, New York City codifies its office of data analytics, U.S. Congress votes to approve the OPEN Government Data Act, Buffalo, N.Y., wins an award from the New York secretary of state for its local data work, and more.
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Santiago Garces, who was hired by South Bend, Ind., after graduating from Notre Dame University in 2013, is resigning to become the next director of Pittsburgh’s Department of Innovation and Performance.
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Ashtabula County is set to replace 131 voting units, including 58 units for those with disabilities, 73 polling location tabulators, a central office tabulator and printing capabilities for early and absentee voters.
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"The best way to get the community involved is to give them access to the meetings," Patterson said. "If me volunteering my time helps other people to get involved, that makes me happy. It's my civic duty."
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Many Philadelphia-based democrats, Bob Brady, Brendan Boyle, and Dwight Evans, say they support net neutrality, but haven't signed a petition for it, frustrating Dems who say they're hiding under "Comcast's shadow".
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A new report from the Data Foundation and Workiva makes a case for Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports (CAFR) as the preferred method of publicizing state and local government financial info.
