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 gov tech investment market lists in one certain direction: early-stage.
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Erie Meyer also will become a member on the National Advisory Council, which helps create and facilitate a dialog between the various brigades, governments and tech leaders across the country.
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Innovation Consulting program joins the city's Innovation Academy, Innovation Lab and Innovation Fund initiatives to encourage new ideas for civic tech.
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Plus, a pair of reintroduced bills seek to bolster federal open data and transparency, and Baltimore puts its building permit application process online.
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The company is shifting its business model as it grows out its product offerings.
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The program matches resident donations for parks and other community improvements with grant money.
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Collecting the data is no longer the hard part. Tech companies’ challenge now is figuring out how best to analyze that data.
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The company's main investors are from its home state, Massachusetts.
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In the first installment of this series, Bowden explains how he got into the gov tech space, and offers unique insight into how he thinks and works, and his thoughts on the industry.
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The Town Hall feature comes months after Facebook voter registration reminders yielded a significant impact in several states.
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The company has named its new permanent chief executive.
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The company is appropriating a tool for local government to use at the K-12 level.
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In a city with more than two dozen Fortune 500 companies, the world's largest medical center and the national space agency, why bother to foster small tech companies?
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The first-place prize of $10,000 went to RideAlong, a digital tool meant to facilitate safer interactions between police and people with mental illness.
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There was no shortage of new mobility innovations and startups for mayors attending South by Southwest to explore.
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Goodbye, OpportunitySpace; hello, Tolemi. And BuildingBlocks. And Y Combinator.
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A beta version is live for testing now, with plans underway for an official launch in the spring.
