Civic Innovation
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A long-gestating vacation rental ordinance will soon get an airing, starting with the city planning commission. Leaders are considering using software to get a better idea precisely how many such rentals the city has.
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The county has updated its application for cellphones, which enables residents to pay bills and obtain key services. Its notifications tab allows the receipt of real-time updates on severe weather and other events.
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The City Council postponed to September a vote that would install cameras with artificial intelligence on garbage trucks, to search out blight. Areas of concern included cost amid budget tightening, and privacy.
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People with hearing and sight disabilities using screen readers and other assistive tech must be able to access content on government websites, but getting and staying compliant is a challenge.
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As director of Performance and Accountability, Wise has created a long and influential legacy of innovative municipal data work.
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Plus, NYC Economic Development Corporation RFP aims to create city’s first cybersecurity accelerator; Startup in Residence Program unveils civic challenges for first nationwide cohort; Harvard’s Ash Center restructures flagship award program; CincyStat collaborates with local police on interactive crime dashboard; and Philadelphia picks internal departments for its new customer-centric design lab.
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The San Francisco-born program now includes Boulder, Colo., Houston and Washington, D.C, among others. A fresh set of challenges to lure startups to participate will go live Nov. 15.
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The city's new public-facing digital efforts were made possible by relationships developed through the San Francisco-based Startup in Residence Program.
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The United Kingdom's Behavioural Insights Team is helping U.S. municipalities improve outcomes by fostering initiatives centered around real human behaviors rather than long-held presumptions.
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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.