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 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, which went into effect this February, included a little-known new program called “Opportunity Zones” (OZs). According to the IRS, an OZ is “an economically-distressed community where new investments, under certain conditions, may be eligible for preferential tax treatment” in order to incentivize economic development.
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The Worthington, Minn., Police Department will soon begin an officer-worn body camera program, but it’s likely at least a couple months away from going live. In the meantime, the department is asking for public comment.
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In polling places across the country Tuesday, voters and elections officials addressed a host of problems that delayed voting. What they didn't see was the kind of foreign interference many feared after 2016.
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Department of Homeland Security officials at the Washington elections command post said they had detected some “run-of-the-mill” scanning of elections systems a little past noon on Election Day.
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voters in the southern US state of Georgia on Tuesday faced malfunctioning voting machines and long lines on election day, raising concerns that state office holders are subtly trying to suppress black votes.
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The PulsePoint app finds people nearby to a person having a cardiac event, and directs them on how to perform CPR once they arrive at the location. It's meant to fill the gap before emergency responders arrive.
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Erie, Colo., has opted out of an old senate bill, and joins several other communities that have voted in recent years to open up a path to alternative broadband solutions to their communities' connectivity issues.
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A mix of human-centered design and behavioral science aims to make municipal forms easier to complete and process. (Re)Form Durham pairs city staff with researchers from Duke University’s Center for Advanced Hindsight.
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A group of several giant technology companies has complained that the Trump administration is holding up and delaying H-1B visa applications for highly skilled foreign workers at a much higher rate.
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70 ExpressPoll Tablets will be implemented to help secure the uploads and downloads of election information.
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The city will try out Axon body cameras on 10-12 officers for about a month, most likely starting in November. Body cameras have become commonplace in police departments across the country.
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Southbridge, Mass., now has a way for citizens to submit crime tips anonymously and receive police notifications by downloading the free "Southbridge PD" app. Officials say crimes in progress still require a call to 911.
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An unsuccessful attempt to infiltrate voting systems during the 2016 election cycle “galvanized us into upping our game,” said Chris Wlaschin, Election Systems & Software’s vice president of systems security.
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“This system is something different,” said Larry Hebert, director at the WSP Forensic Laboratory Services Bureau. “It’s essentially for the benefit of the survivors.”
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Data science can map where street harassment is most prevalent, ensure public bins don't overflow and identify neighbourhoods with poor fire safety standards in the home.
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With millions of their users eligible to vote but preferring to sit out elections, Silicon Valley companies are pulling out all their technological stops to help educate their customers on ballot measures and candidates — and then get them out there to do their civic duty.
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The Caselaw Access Project, from the Library Innovation Lab at Harvard Law School, went live Oct. 29 and aggregates millions of state and federal cases on a free website.
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Plus, CityLab hosts largest-ever gathering of local gov CIOs; Brooklyn, N.Y., welcomes new hub for VR and AR tech; and Louisville, Ky., publishes new Bird Scooter data.
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