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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It's the first time the company has turned to venture capital since its founding four years ago.
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The majority say they could put most of their systems in the cloud, but have not.
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In its first U.S. pilot, the startup plans to use AI software to predict accidents hours before they happen.
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It's a huge contract that will quite literally bring the Oregon Department of Motor Vehicles into a new century.
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Now in its second year, the Hawaii Annual Code Challenge looks to build upon 2016's success.
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Plus, Georgia lays out online content strategy advice for state agencies, Pittsburgh debuts online database of for-sale city properties, and Naperville, Ill., launches new open data portal with police incidents and other info.
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The company will serve a central role amid other vendors working to set up a new child welfare system for a project the state is watching as a possible new way of approaching tech.
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The model creates simple conditional statements called applets, which the city is using to create warnings about poor air quality and other emergencies.
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PlaceSpeak, a location-based civic engagement tool, is designed to prevent interference from bots and trolls that have plagued online discourse as of late.
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The city is responding to a flux of tech startups in recent years.
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Plus, Atlanta CIO to deliver keynote about strategic partnerships in innovation, Kansas City launches open data Facebook chatbot and a new handbook details mayors’ roles in the rise of innovation districts.
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Civic tech competitions require much more than putting a bunch of developers in a room and letting them go to work.
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The percentage of women working in IT positions keeps declining, but Los Angeles is working to change that.
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NSF's Erwin Gianchandani discussed in an opening keynote how the agency is working with cities and advancing the greater gov tech movement.
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The philanthropist announced the initiative at the annual U.S. Conference of Mayors’ Annual Meeting, saying cities now play a vital role in an era of "Washington impotence."
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Even as it looks to younger people to help it evolve, the public sector is lagging behind the private sector in hiring them.
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Civic innovators find diverse applications for using technology to care for street trees.
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Plus, Boston adds broadband access to its development review process, What Works Cities releases report about tangible ways local governments are changing lives, and the Illinois Department of Agriculture uses tech to improve service.
