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Are Ride-Shares and Gas Prices Behind Falling Transit Ridership?
Riders on the Los Angeles Metro transit system could soon be tapping into their favorite music streaming service, compliments of the system’s free onboard Wi-Fi. Already, riders can chat with a...
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What's New in Civic Tech: New York City Announces Crowdfunding Program for...
New York City is partnering with the nonprofit crowdfunding platform Kiva.org on a city-led program to help women entrepreneurs start businesses. The program, dubbed WE Fund: Crowd, lets women apply...
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Summit on Data-Smart Government Day Two Shows How Fast the Discipline Has...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Back in 2012, Chicago was the first city in the country to hire a chief data officer, so perhaps it was fitting that its current CDO, Tom Schenk, was basically everywhere on day two...
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Are IoT-Enabled Smart Meters the Next Step for Utility Providers?
Water utilities have begun eyeing cellphone towers and even cable TV providers as possible transmitting sources for the millions of daily water meter readings they receive with "smart meters."...
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Nudging Citizen Behavior Can Drive Positive Community Change
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — The Behavioural Insights Team (BIT), a London-based organization jointly owned by its employees and the United Kingdom government, is now working with 30 U.S. cities, helping them...
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Is Michigan CIO David DeVries Worried About Workforce?
Michigan CIO David DeVries has hit the ground running. Appointed at the end of August following the departure earlier this year of David Behen, DeVries previously held the title of CIO at the federal...
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How to Recover from Cyber Incidents in Government
Public- and private-sector organizations have experienced numerous major incidents related to cybersecurity over the past few years. Indeed, many experts claim it is just a matter of time before...
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Startup Partnerships Drive Open Data, Citizen-Centric Service Efforts in San...
San Leandro, Calif., has launched an open data page, a GIS data page and a dashboard to guide citizens to services based on their background, and it's done so with help from companies from the Startup...
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Louisville Uses Waze Data for Better Transportation Outcomes
The days of sending out crews to deploy traffic counting equipment to measure highway volume could be coming to an end as cities turn to apps like Waze. The free, crowd-sourced navigation app offers...
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Startup in Residence Program Expands to 12 Jurisdictions Nationwide
Startup in Residence (STiR), a program created in San Francisco in 2014 to make it easier for tech entrepreneurs to work with government, is expanding to 12 jurisdictions across the country, the...
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Florida Governor's Proposed Budget Would Formalize Cybersecurity Training
Gov. Rick Scott is recommending the state commit to funding cybersecurity training for agency leaders in his 2018-2019 state budget, which would make an annual spend of nearly a quarter-million...
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Civil Rights Groups: Police Are Making Little Progress on Improving Body Cam...
Most police departments across the United States have taken few new steps to ensure the footage they collect from body cameras will further transparency and accountability, according to a new study by...
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2018 Poised to Be the Year for Public Safety Networks
Indications are that 2018 will be a formative year for both FirstNet, authorized by Congress in 2012, and Verizon, which announced plans to build a private network for public safety communications in...
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Optibus, a Fast-Growing Transit Optimization Startup, Raises $12 Million...
Optibus took just three years to create artificial intelligence-powered software that optimizes transit operations, sign clients on multiple continents and grow its customer base to more than 200....
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Why Dewand Neely Gave Up His Office
Modernizing the government workforce brings up the same questions over and over: How do you get new talent to come to the public sector? Once they’re in the door, what will motivate them to stay? The...
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Digital Infrastructure Should Be a Part of Any New U.S. Project, Experts Say
New and refurbished infrastructure — whether it’s a road, a bridge, a rail line — should be developed with a vision for the future, one that includes multiple layers of smart cities technologies, say...
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Acting Locally: Trends from the 2017 Digital Cities Survey (Infographic)
Each year, the Digital Cities Survey looks at IT efforts in cities large and small where local government is using tech to improve its services across the board. This year, the Center for Digital...
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What’s New in Civic Tech: Participants Reflect on Code for America’s Brigade...
Several attendees at Code for America’s (CfA) first Brigade Congress reflected on the experience this week, blogging about the event and the ideas it gave them for moving forward in civic tech. The...
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Ed Winfield Joins Maricopa County, Ariz., as CIO
Less than a month after the departure of its chief information officer, Maricopa County, Ariz., found a permanent replacement: Ed Winfield, the former CIO of Wayne County, Mich. Winfield, who was...
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Cary, N.C., Tests Smart Technology in Its 'Living Lab' City Campus
Even in some of the most tech-friendly corners of the country, officials stress there’s no harm in starting small when it comes to trying out smart city ideas. Cary, N.C. — nestled in the state’s...
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