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, 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.
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The city has issued an RFP for its Next Generation 911 project, while installing interim text-to-911 capabilities slated to go live in early 2018.
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The fund has added seven new companies in a relatively short period of time.
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San Francisco's new app taps into the city’s greatest resource — civic-minded residents.
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Matt Miszewski is heading to the open data company as it begins to explore non-open data.
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Plus, 12 cities join Chicago's effort to preserve deleted federal climate change research data, Seattle's open data portal gets a new look, and the FCC weighs whether to strip local governments of siting authority as 5G tech becomes more common.
