Civic Innovation
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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. -
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 County Council signed off on $34 million in contracts to update the enterprise resource planning system, which manages a variety of processes. A councilman wondered if it might streamline other county functions.
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Government can no longer get away with pushing out the occasional press release — constituents demand real-time access. The changing paradigm toward immediate online engagement requires more coordination and thought from organizations to keep pace.
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Monday's programming dove deep into top-of-mind issues for state CIOs.
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This is part seven of a series about the 34 cities that have advanced in the Bloomberg Mayors Challenge. This week we look at Ithaca, N.Y.; Los Angeles; Miami and Miami Beach, Fla.; and Phoenix.
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Plus, Oakland event gates nonprofits and community groups to tackle pressing issues with tech, Cities of Service names 10 finalists for its Engaged Cities Award and Louisville, Ky., debuts informational kiosks in its downtown.
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For Chief Information Officer Sharon Kennedy Vickers, technology without a mission is not worth the time.
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New York City's more than 1,500 LinkNYC kiosks, which offer free public telephone calls and Wi-Fi, will get live, by-the-hour monitoring via the Internet of Things later this spring.
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The platform enables users to renew vehicle registration online, and future plans call for expanding its functionality to include more areas of government service.
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This is part six of a series about the 34 cities that have advanced in the Bloomberg Mayors Challenge. This week we look at Detroit; Durham, N.C.; Fort Collins, Colo.; Lafayette, La.; and Oklahoma City.
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The new high-tech voting system could cost Sonoma County $6 million.
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Despite some Butler County, Ohio, communities not getting many views on their public financial books, officials say the transparency is still worth it.
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Plus, Sacramento, Calif., is accepting applicants for $1 million in innovation grants, San Antonio announces 2018 CivTechSA Residency Program winners, and Aurora, Ill., works to create a smart park.
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Ariel Kennan worked for Apple in its early retail years, but now she is putting what she learned to work for the Service Design Studio in the Mayor’s Office for Economic Opportunity.
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The innovative project will be funded with a $22.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation.
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The city has announced the creation of a new spending transparency portal, while the mayor is re-evaluating all cabinet-level staff.
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Residents filed roughly $241 million in property taxes within two weeks at the end of last year.
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This is part five of a series about the 34 cities that have advanced in the Bloomberg Mayors Challenge. This week, we look at plans from Boston; Lincoln, Neb.; Moreno Valley, Calif.; New Rochelle, N.Y.; and Princeton, N.J.
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Plus, Code for America launches new Community Fellowship program; the ACLU looks to hire data scientists; and the U.S. Treasury launches a data lab on its revamped USAspending.gov site.
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The trailblazing CIO will be focusing on a for-profit organization aimed at helping women entrepreneurs launch business ideas in the Bay Area.
