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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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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The strange bedfellows are pushing legislation that would put a year-long moratorium on new for-hire vehicle licenses.
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The state’s Ocean Protection Council awarded a $1.7 million grant for a stationary vessel to clear floating trash and debris from Upper Newport Bay.
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Frustration led to the creation of a smartphone app to inform voters about their options in Fort Bend County, Texas, and similar tools are taking hold in other parts of the state.
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The awards will go toward supporting projects that address a wide range of civic challenges, from homelessness and the opioid crisis to climate change and more.
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The second full round of recipients is a diverse group, with five of the seven selected using technology as a key piece of their innovation work.
