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 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.
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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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