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Code for Asheville: A New Model for Civic Tech Collaboration (Contributed)
In 2007, Dr. Dwight Mullen founded The State of Black Asheville as an undergraduate research effort at the University of North Carolina Asheville. Over the next 10 years, students utilized public data...
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Can Technology Make the Civil Court System More Accessible?
Pew Charitable Trust wants to make the non-criminal legal system easier to navigate without lawyers, and technology is a key component to their plans. Modernizing civil courts at the state and local...
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ProudCity Builds Recovery Website for Paradise, Calif., in 3 Days
When a town is in ashes and its residents are scattered, local officials may not be in a position to manage and update a website telling people where to go, what to do and how to help. Fortunately for...
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What’s New in Civic Tech: D.C. Picks GigabitDCx Semi-Finalists
Washington, D.C., has announced six semifinalists for its Gigabit DC Challenge (GigabitDCx), which is a public competition wherein participants submit proposals for gigabit app solutions to city...
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Boston Hires D.C. Agency Tech Leader as New City CIO
The city of Boston has named a new CIO, calling up an agency IT leader from Washington, D.C. Boston Mayor Marty Walsh has chosen David Elges, currently CIO of DC’s Child and Family Services Agency, to...
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Chip Implants: The Next Big Privacy Debate
Have you been chipped? That question is set to divide millions of people in the 2020s. And perhaps billions of people in the 2030s and 2040s. Just as the world begins to understand the many benefits...
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AI Cuts Crashes 17 Percent in Vegas — But There's a Catch
A traffic crash-predicting startup, Waycare, has successfully demonstrated that its artificial intelligence — paired with specific responses from law enforcement and transportation officials — can...
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Sacramento, Verizon Push Pause on Kiosk Deal
Verizon and Sacramento may have jointly decided to put on hold the installation of 15 digital kiosks starting in and around downtown, but the city’s innovation lead told Techwire their $100 million...
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Oracle Recruits Palo Alto CIO for Public-Sector Division
After nearly seven years of upgrading technology in Palo Alto, Calif., the city’s chief information officer has been tapped to become the global industries solution leader for Oracle’s public-sector...
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The Challenges of Connected Government (Contributed)
Long before the emergence of smartphones, Star Trek’s Mr. Spock and Captain Kirk used their mobile devices to measure radioactive frequencies and receive messages from the Starship Enterprise. Before...
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Smart Cities Living Lab in Dallas Issues Case Studies Report
It might not come as a huge surprise that air pollution was up following an Independence Day fireworks show this year in Dallas. But knowing the types of particulate matter and how much was present...
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San Antonio Bids Farewell to Its First Innovation Officer
San Antonio's Chief Innovation Officer Jose De La Cruz has departed the city for a role with the San Antonio Water System (SAWS). This marks an end to a six-year stint doing tech and innovation work...
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West Virginia Names New Chief Technology Officer
West Virginia turned to its own cybersecurity leader to fill the chief technology officer post. Joshua Spence was appointed by Gov. Jim Justice to fill the seat after the retirement of longtime IT...
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U.S. DHHS Shares Code with States to Fight Opioid Overdoses
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is releasing a toolkit to help state governments and insurers find people at risk of overdosing on opioids. The department’s new toolkit, which the...
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Colorado CIO Returns to Her IT Roots at Dish Network
Colorado’s Chief Information Officer Suma Nallapati will join Dish Network in mid-January as senior vice president and chief digital officer, according to a news release Wednesday from the state....
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Change Is in the DNA of All Smart City Initiatives
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The evolution and deployment of city projects seldom follow a simple and predicable path. So don’t expect smart city projects to start and end without changes along the way. This...
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What’s New in Civic Tech: Ash Carter Calls for Tech to Align with 'Public...
Former U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter called upon America’s innovators and technologists — in both the public and private sectors — to use their work "with a public purpose," in a written piece...
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OpenGov and GTY Holdings Sue Each Other Over Revoked Merger
When GTY Technology Holdings announced in September that it was acquiring six gov tech companies and merging them into one publicly traded entity, OpenGov was not on the list. But apparently, OpenGov...
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Fixing Transportation May Be the Most Important Job Cities Have
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Reversing decades of car-focused transportation in the United States will have to be led by cities. And if they can effectively get people out of their cars, this could be one of...
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Company's New API Gives Access to 260K Government Contacts
Carroll Publishing, a long-standing directory of government officials and offices, has published its first API to allow developers to directly access the information. The company, based in Bethesda,...
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