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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The North Dakota court system has had the same operating system since 1999, and it's finally wrapping up an 18-month update in which the organizational structure, not content, will be brought into the 21st century.
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Plus, Honolulu launches a new performance dashboard; NYC city planning creates a digital platform for a lengthy zoning resolution; major jurisdictions prep for Open Data Day; a host of gov tech jobs are available; and more.
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With a former county executive currently on trial for financial malfeasance, the New York City area county’s new comptroller is using technology to promote transparency and establish open data best practices.
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The GovTech100 company behind ZoneIQ is launching a new zoning management platform for cities capable of property lookup and 3D visualization. It has gained traction with several customers already, including Miami.
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Plus, San Jose, Calif., looks to approve initial funding for broad digital equity work; Indiana’s Management Performance Hub releases its annual report; new Code for America brigades to launch; and more.
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“We can download that phone … and we would be able to tell if that person was texting at the time of the crash,” Lt. Cary Madrigal said. “There’s a lot of information that we can pull from these devices.”
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"If you can't check back across the system what's happening in the system, then you don't really have security," said Christopher Krebs, director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
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The Houston Police Department was criticized for its lack of clarity regarding body camera use. Officers were not wearing body cameras in a raid that killed two civilians and wounded five officers.
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The city has nearly tripled the size of the fund that supports programs aimed at increasing digital resources available to Boston residents.
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The company shut down last year, but its user base remained. Now, the Linux Foundation is taking on the project so it can continue to provide an open source alternative to platforms that lock users in.
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“We all know that beyond these walls, our country is not very felon-friendly," said one woman serving out a prison sentence in Oklahoma who is participating in a coding program. "This program will give us that chance.”
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Tami, who spent four years helping Cincinnati build its data and analytics work into some of the most robust of any mid-sized U.S. city, has accepted a similar position with the New York City parks department.
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The consulting program is an internal version of a service that government has long had to contract from the outside, and it fits in with Philadelphia’s extant Innovation Academy, Lab and Fund programs.
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Folding MyCivic’s application into its existing software for government-citizen interaction, the gov tech giant continues to diversify the range of software tools working together under its banner.
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Plus, Baton Rouge, La., launches new open checkbook; Twilio.org announces $1.4 million in grants for nonprofits using tech to strengthen communities; NYC launches The Grid network aimed at growing its urban tech ecosystem; Deloitte and Georgetown University collaborate on CDO playbook for local gov; and Arc GIS app uses data to create artsy sketches of cities.
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After a poor response rate in the 2010 Census, Detroit is developing a data-driven campaign to increase the accuracy of the city's population count, with an eye on expanding federal support and increasing civic pride.
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Within this year’s Startup in Residence cohort, Civis Analytics is teaming up with the city to help residents there get a better understanding of what could happen to their homes during a major flood.
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Plus, meet San Francisco’s Civic Bridge program; New York City’s kiosks feature historical photos of Jackie Robinson; seven design principles for using blockchain for social impact; and more.
