Civic Innovation
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The City Council has approved three contracts to replace its veteran accounting, payroll and human resources management software. A consulting firm will help with oversight and advisory services. -
The Marin County Digital Accelerator takes an agile approach to gov tech, moving fast to get work done. A recent project found a “single source of truth” to modernize planning and permitting.
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The Bismarck Municipal Court system handled nearly 87,000 new cases from 2020-2024 and saw a 40 percent caseload increase in 2024. Officials are examining what systems might be upgraded to handle the additional burden.
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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.
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The city originally planned to roll the municipal ID cards out early this year, but some of the proceedings are taking longer than anticipated. The cards are set to be distributed sometime "this spring."
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Better software has made the job of interpreting and analyzing city data easier. The results are both profound and personal, depending on how the technology is used.
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Pew Charitable Trusts, which has been engaged in the work dating back to last year, also published a new article elaborating on its new partnerships with the law schools at each institution.
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As part of this year’s Startup in Residence program, the Memphis Area Transit Authority is working with Urban SDK on a project that could help streamline data for more than 600 similar transit agencies nationwide.
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Plus, state and local government agencies prepare for coming Data Privacy Day; Miami makes its new beta website official; new map visualizes Chicago’s most polluted neighborhoods; jobs in gov tech abound, and more.
