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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Plus, disaster relief is the dominant focus of TechCrunch's Disrupt SF 2017, Indiana taps Amazon Alexa to enhance state government, and five new participants join Bloomberg’s What Works Cities initiative.
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Uses range from giving advice on driver’s license exams to traffic updates, as the list of municipal government skill sets available on the platform continues to expand.
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The city is partnering with Socrata to create a platform that allows users to download data sets and create visualizations.
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The move will enable residents and others interested in the city to access streaming municipal content on demand.
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Plus, Sunlight Foundation releases A Guide to Tactical Data, NYC Planning Labs launches its first project and tech continues to prove useful in the aftermath of major hurricanes.
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From Portland, Maine, to Sacramento, Calif., the fifth year of the nationwide event sees more organizers looking to include participants who aren’t traditionally thought of as civic technologists.
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The Brookings Institution has mapped broadband availability and subscription rates at the neighborhood level. The digital resource highlights the need for better connectivity across the United States.
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The third iteration of Innovate Your State's Civic & Gov Tech Showcase highlighted the latest in nascent technology solutions with public-sector potential.
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Plus, Next Century Cities releases best practices for leveraging civic engagement with tech; Louisville, Ky., continues to embrace Amazon’s Alexa by offering mayoral podcast through the platform; and Baltimore Innovation Team’s First Assignment is Police Recruitment.
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Supporters say nonprofit identification system would increase transparency and make government more efficient in several areas, including procurement practices.
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City officials will work with the Age-Friendly Seattle Initiative to create a hackathon with a specific focus for technologists to address.
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A coalition of CIOs and CTOs from New York, San Francisco, Austin and Seattle presented a letter supporting net neutrality rules currently under consideration for rollback.
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Plus, Grand Rapids, Mich., shares wide-spanning tech progress update, and Baton Rouge, La., Launches GiS Web map to monitor heavy rainfall.
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A growing number of stakeholders are participating in a new concept aimed at sharing solutions to common governmental challenges.
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Data possess a number of useful functions for non-profit and government groups, from determining where to deploy anti-mosquito measures to helping assess how many people still need aid.
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New platform features more than 70 data sets, integrated city planning goals and a capacity for expansion.
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Plus, Philadelphia becomes first U.S. city to map urban trails via Google Street View, Code for America developer emphasizes importance of design for the public good, and Uber begins sharing some transportation data with cities.
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26 ways artificial intelligence is, or could, help government do its job.
