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Uptrust Brings Court Texting to 4 More California Counties
Uptrust, a startup working to reduce incarceration by helping defendants get to court, is rapidly signing new California counties as customers. The company has introduced its product in Ventura...
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Coord Turns Street Photos Into Curb Data for Six Cities
In six cities since 2017, mobility data startup Coord has been amassing data on curb assets such as signs and fire hydrants through its mobile app. That data has now been analyzed and made available...
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Two Special Districts Leaders Honored by GovTech Magazine
In its annual program honoring innovative public-sector technology professionals, Government Technology magazine has named two special districts professionals to its list for their ongoing work to...
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Granicus Moves Into Digital Services With U.K. Acquisition
Granicus already made software for governments to communicate with residents, help them follow their elected officials’ activity and build websites. Now, they’re getting into digital services as well....
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ProudCity Aims to Build More Disaster Recovery Websites
When a historically destructive wildfire burned down most of Paradise, Calif., in November, the startup ProudCity built the town a website dedicated to the recovery effort in three days. Now, the...
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Phoenix Hires Former Alaska Official Shannon Lawson as CISO
Shannon Lawson is overseeing cybersecurity in Phoenix as the city’s new chief information security officer, effective April 2. As described by the city’s website, Lawson, 44, is in charge of strategic...
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CitySourced Merges With Rock Solid in Private Equity Deal
CitySourced, a company that makes a civic engagement platform for government, has merged with software provider Rock Solid Technologies. Both businesses have made civic engagement platforms that run...
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What’s New in Civic Tech: Philly Releases City Payments Data
Philadelphia has released a new data set that makes available almost a quarter-million lines of payment information from nearly 60 city departments, commissions, boards and government offices, the...
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Kansas City CInO Bob Bennett Headed to Smart Cities Think Tank
Bob Bennett, who led efforts to make Kansas City, Mo., into a mid-size smart city leader, will transition to a think tank dedicated to urban development. Bennett, the city's outgoing chief innovation...
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5 Strategies for Rethinking Smart City ROI (Contributed)
Growing populations, shifting demographics and evolving expectations. Modern cities are facing an expanding list of complex problems. Today’s urban economies are often dependent on static...
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GovGirl: Government Social Media Work Has Come a Long Way
Social media use in the public sector has come a long way. It’s hard to pinpoint the exact time government agencies started getting involved on social media. You could argue that the first avant-garde...
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Sidewalk Labs Wants People, Not Tech, to Study Public Spaces
Sidewalk Labs, a tech startup backed by Google’s parent company Alphabet, wants to make it easier to understand how people use public spaces. That’s the idea behind its new app, CommonSpace, which it...
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Scooters Are Proof Positive Government, Industry Can Collaborate
If the seemingly overnight appearance of rentable electric scooters, bikes and other pieces of the “micro-mobility” marketplace exposed the growing pains between private-sector and local transit...
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Security Culture Questions to Consider
Security and technology leaders around the world are becoming much more focused on the importance of improving their enterprise security culture as a vital component of overall risk management. The...
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China Aims to Launch First Solar Power Station in Space
China Takes on Interstellar Solar Power China wants to be the first country to launch a solar power station — in space. The interstellar object would orbit the Earth at 36,000 kilometers (about 22,400...
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i3 Verticals Buys Texas Software Firm NET Data for $24M
A publicly traded company, i3 Verticals, has acquired the public-sector software and services company Northeast Texas Data for $24 million. The company, most often called NET Data, is 35 years old and...
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Geotab to Acquire Public Fleet-Focused BSM Technologies
Fleet managers using Geotab, an Ontario-based company with over 1.5 million global subscribers for such services, will be getting a bigger toolkit as the company has announced plans to acquire BSM...
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Cask Spins Off Digital Transformation into Separate Business
Cask LLC announced Monday that it has split into two companies, one of which will focus on providing services to the federal government, and the other of which will work on digital transformation for...
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Do School Districts Still Need Ed Tech Support Staff?
School districts’ educational technology teams, composed of educators skilled in helping teachers integrate ed tech tools and resources into their instruction, have long stood on shifting sands. As...
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AI in the Smart City: Experts Talk Risks and Rewards
City court officials in Austin used to spend a lot of time answering rote questions related to parking tickets, court dates and other issues. Then about two years ago, the city began using a chatbot...
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