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 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.
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As an add-on or standalone product, ProudCity Meetings aims to fill a simple niche overlooked by larger software providers: a public meeting tool for small governments that can’t afford huge enterprise systems.
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State and local government leaders say that for now some collaborative efforts are facing the potential of individual delays, but the effects are likely not to be noticed by most of the general public.
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Plus, San Antonio’s CivTechSA program returns; the Cities of Service Engaged Cities Award deadline approaches; the new Indy.gov website goes live; the world might be choking on digital pollution; and more.
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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.
