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 company is one of 15 finalists for the contest.
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Boston's chief data officer talks about the second iteration of city's open data platform.
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The competition awards winners with cloud credits to help build out their projects.
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The representative-contacting company has received its first venture capital injection.
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Plus, Democracy Works increases efforts to connect voters with election info, and Syracuse partners with Code for America to launch new info portal for businesses.
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Government doesn’t perform its vital functions nor deliver citizen services the same way anymore.
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The company is set to deliver multiple components of a massive, 16-year-old system.
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Corporate dollars can be a boon to a startup. The infusion of cash can help bring a product to market or fund expansion, and a recognizable corporate logo can give an unknown startup visibility and creditably.
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The GSA's Office of Inspector General found that 18F disregarded several security rules and other governmental procedures, but the states it has recently contracted with say they're not concerned about similar issues.
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Combining data sets to see which of the states that signed onto a cooperative cloud RFP have shown room to grow in buying cloud services.
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The cloud-based startup competition includes backing from some big Silicon Valley venture capitalists.
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Simple Connect is just getting its feet on the ground, but its ambitions are large.
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A team of eight acquisition experts is helping public purchasers navigate the evolving nature of the digital business space.
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Burgh's Eye View analysts and developers will conduct meetings about their work in 14 neighborhoods, hoping for ideas to enhance the platform.
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City planners adopted a new Web-based application for this year’s count of homeless people and got a much more accurate understanding of how many people are actually bunking on the streets.
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Plus, Kansas City, Mo., and Fargo, N.D., both make significant strides in open data and civic tech.
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AirMap thinks cities can use unmanned aircraft for a lot more than they are.
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The product, Atom, can “learn” how to transform data on its own, and draw on Google’s proprietary traffic data taken from user’s mobile phones.
