Civic Innovation
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So-called drone entertainment offers cities like Aspen and Parker a diverting but less flammable option to Fourth of July fireworks displays. The latter may have the “boom factor,” but could also ignite a wildfire. -
City officials are building a comprehensive artificial intelligence ecosystem to support economic growth, by incentivizing businesses and enabling experimentation in what they call "the capital of AI."
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Ongoing work with Medici Land Governance has yielded a blockchain-enabled tool to aid in property searches and sales. The goal is to ease the transformation of thousands of vacant, abandoned or blighted properties.
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Packed rooms listen as chief data officers and others working with municipal analytics describe the strides local governments have made toward better serving communities through predictive analytics, data visualizations and other work.
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Plus, Illinois announces move to new data management platform, civic tech group creates new source for California elections data and the USDA invests $16 million in South Dakota's rural broadband infrastructure.
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Government data experts come to Harvard University for training and workshop sessions about how to best leverage data in order to transform city services in a wide range of areas, including public safety, mobility, inspections and more.
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The collaboration with Rice University is focused on bridging the gap between the on-campus research and the city’s real-world needs.
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States at the forefront of developing a unified, customer-centric digital government experience share some of their top insights.
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Jeff Reichman, co-founder of January Advisors, discussed the aftermath of the devastating hurricane and how the tech community came together to help.
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The electronic voting technology would allow voters to use a handheld device to vote from their seats at town meetings.
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Plus, experts emphasize importance of tech in rebuilding Puerto Rico, Bloomberg’s What Works Cities initiative now includes 95 jurisdictions, and Charlotte, N.C., releases digital inclusion playbook to help other cities with equity efforts.
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The system takes a description of the user’s issue and suggests the case types that are most likely to fit the description.
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The company has released city-specific sites featuring publicly available data using the Amazon Web Services platform.
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A recent increase in public desire to strengthen democracy has not yet translated into more funding for civic tech, but the authors of a new report see it as a reason for hope.
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Last year's conference featured what's believed to be its first major hackathon, and CES 2018 will debut separate events focused on smart cities and FirstNet.
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New effort is bringing together government innovators from across the nation to visualize the opioid crisis and share best practices.
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Code4PA features statewide data sets, collaboration and reach.
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Plus, PayNearMe helps NYC residents pay parking tickets with cash, OpenDataSoft and Amazon partner on free data portal for 500 mid-sized cities, Newark, N.J., works with private partners to launch a gigabit wireless Internet connection, and Sunnyvale, Calif., taps archiving platform to bolster digital transparency.
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Local entrepreneurs have focused their attention on relief and recovery efforts.
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NYCx, a reorganizing of New York City's technology programs, is designed to bring technologists and residents together to solve tech problems with answers that could be adaptable worldwide.
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Speakers at the Data Coalition’s annual Data Demo Day say tech improvements and culture changes are coming, but much room for progress remains.
