Civic Innovation
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The myAurora 311 Open Data Portal gives residents a detailed look at the city's non-emergency call traffic, service trends and response, and is part of a broader push to make city operations more transparent. -
Officials will refresh the site to eliminate customer issues including a delayed reflecting of precise balances. Changes to the village payment system are underway, and are in early stages.
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The AI Center for Civic and Social Good will let the public and the San Jose State University community learn about and work with AI technology through programming — at no cost to participants.
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Online civic engagement can yield powerful results, but the maker of a platform and two of its clients caution agencies that technology is no substitute for planning and utilization.
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Plus, Code for America searches for data engineer to work on its flagship effort, San Jose’s smart city lead says city’s broadband ‘significantly lags’ behind U.S. peers, and GeorgiaGov Interactive becomes Digital Services Georgia.
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Increased public concern has raised interest in the month-long slate of events meant to promote the importance of safeguarding digital information.
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The nation’s capital will be the lead city in the East Coast expansion of the San Francisco-born program that fosters collaboration between startups and government agencies.
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This year’s class of Startup in Residence entrepreneurs is the last to work exclusively with Northern California cities as the program prepares to expand nationwide in 2018.
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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.
