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Constituent Engagement Startup ePluribus Raises $10,000 Through Crowdfunding
EPluribus, a startup that builds tools to help lawmakers better understand their constituents’ opinions, has raised $10,000 through crowdfunding. The nascent company, the work of a pair of brothers...
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What’s New in Civic Tech: Cybersecurity Expert Calls for Creation of ‘Cyber...
Citing an inability at all levels of governments across the world to defend against cyberattacks, a cybersecurity expert is calling for the U.S. Congress to expand the mandates of the Peace Corps and...
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Cubic Wins $500M Contract to Overhaul NYC Subway and Bus Fare System
After 25 years, New York City is saying goodbye to the MetroCard and hello to the iPhone. The New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) has voted to grant a contract worth more than $500...
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Public Transit Benefits When Buses, Riders Are Connected
New communications equipment aboard buses in Boise, Idaho, has already ensured stable, accurate, real-time online bus-tracking, on-board Wi-Fi and other features. The network of new routers and other...
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Colorado CIOs Highlight Potential Benefits of Teamwork, Collaboration
Collaboration and teamwork were a consistent theme at the Colorado Digital Government Summit with city and county officials providing use cases that emphasized partnerships crucial to maximizing value...
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Q3 Market Update: Service Contracts Are Most Common Gov Tech Opportunity
Services remained the busiest sector of technology procurement in government during the third quarter of 2017, according to data from the Center for Digital Government.* The data, which examines tech...
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‘Opioid Mapping Initiative’ Shows Impact of National Crisis, Fosters...
A new initiative is seeking to visualize the United States’ severe and worsening opioid epidemic while also bringing together local governments that have had early success using technology to combat...
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Technology Is a Tool, Not Solution in Connecticut's Journey to Lean
A state agency that provides benefits to residents suffers staff cuts that result in long wait times for callers who want to apply for help over the phone. The agency decides the best solution is to...
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LA County Metro Investigates Micro-Transit Possibilities
Transit riders in Los Angeles could get a new mobility option that works something like a hybrid version of Uber and a van pool. The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro)...
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Puerto Rico: After Dark Chapter, Future Hope Using Technology
In a hurricane season filled with unprecedented damage, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands continue to have the greatest amount of ongoing struggles and widespread impacts. Puerto Rico is now the...
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Traffic Accident Prediction Startup Waycare Gets $2.3M, Plans More Pilots
Waycare is in the midst of its first real-world pilot tests to predict traffic accidents and congestion. Now, the startup has raised $2.3 million to set up more tests. The company’s seed round, led by...
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Pennsylvania's Expanded Hackathon Gears Up for Pitch Day
Code4PA, Pennsylvania’s annual hackathon, has grown significantly in scope since last year’s event, thanks to increased data sets released by the state, as well as some key collaborations with...
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Smart Cities, FirstNet Break-Out Tracks Planned for CES 2018
Like this year’s model, which featured what’s believed to be its first major hackathon, CES 2018 will offer something it’s never had before: a separate smart cities track throughout the show, Jan....
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Report: Civic Tech Struggles with Sustainable Funding Despite Gains
A new report has found that while civic tech is a growth industry, it is one largely filled with organizations struggling to create sustainable business models. The report, dubbed Scaling Civic Tech:...
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Michigan and Cisco Announce Digital Acceleration Partnership
The state of Michigan wants to become the most secure and digitally advanced state in the nation. Now, it has one of the country’s leading tech firms to help make that happen. On Monday, Gov. Rick...
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OpenDataSoft Targets Mid-Sized Cities with 500 New City Portals
OpenDataSoft recently announced the launch of Open Data America, an initiative to release data portals for more than 500 cities across the United States. The company began building data portals in...
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Contra Costa County Partners with AAA to Boost AV Development
Autonomous vehicle (AV) technology development continues in California, as some of the most trusted names in consumer car travel sign on. AAA, which for more than a century has been a provider of...
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Is Missouri’s ‘Innovation Corridor’ Enough to Draw Amazon to the State?
From Tucson to Chicago, Mexico to Toronto, 238 cities and states are competing to be home to Amazon’s second headquarters (HQ2), an undertaking estimated to generate up to 50,000 jobs and cost at...
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Will AI Chatbots Replace the Government Mobile App?
NEW YORK CITY — Despite some existential dread about artificial intelligence (AI), Serge Leontiev thinks the technology is pretty safe for the time being. In fact, the public sector innovation lead at...
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Florida Names First Chief Data Officer
The state of Florida has hired its first-ever chief data officer, one of two related positions it will fill by year's end. Nancy Sampson, the former Information Technology Services director for the...
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