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Neighborland Makes Public Engagement Tool for Transportation
As Neighborland CEO Dan Parham tells it, the problem of addressing major issues like urban transportation is often not an engineering or even a financial one, but a problem of political will. Whether...
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What Smart Cities Means to a Special District (Contributed)
Editor's note: This article was originally published by the Municipal Information Systems Association of California. Local government communities around the world have packaged some of their...
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New York City Demystifies Social Service Benefits Screening
Government has long struggled to ensure that all citizens who qualify for social services benefits receive them. A major barrier is the number of citizens who are eligible for benefits, but are...
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Motorola Solutions Adds Situational Awareness to Emergency Suite
Competing in an increasingly crowded market of situational awareness tools for first responders, Motorola Solutions announced new enhancements last week to CommandCentral Aware, a platform that...
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What America's Governors Are Saying About Tech (Infographic)
Words matter, and when it comes to State of the State addresses, words translate to policy priorities. Now that all 50 governors — including 20 just beginning their first terms — have delivered their...
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Google Fiber to Pay Louisville, Ky., $3.84M After Exit
Google Fiber will pay $3.84 million back to Louisville, Ky., to fix roads and other public rights-of-way, the city announced Monday. This comes after the company stopped all service in Louisville in...
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Los Angeles County Locates Missing Seniors With Technology
More than 10,000 adults went missing in Los Angeles County last year, according to California state records. A substantial number of those people were elderly, with cognitive impairments, including...
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Minnesota Gov. Walz Names Permanent MNIT Commissioner
Gov. Tim Walz has named Tarek Tomes as the next commissioner of Minnesota IT Services (MNIT), a job he will begin April 29. This marks Walz’s final cabinet appointment. Tomes will replace Acting...
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Cook County, Ill., Looks to CfA to Expunge Pot Convictions
Cook County, Ill., which is home to Chicago, might be the next jurisdiction to work with Code for America on automatically expunging cannabis convictions, at least if State’s Attorney Kim Foxx gets...
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CivicPlus Builds Civic Engagement Platform on "Headless" CMS
CivicPlus, a company that makes websites and integrated software for local governments, unveiled the latest iteration of its citizen engagement platform at a conference this week in Kansas City, Mo....
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Atlanta Creates Advisory Board to Consult With Its CIO
Atlanta has created a new Chief Information Officer Advisory board to work with its CIO. The city, which announced the founding of the board Wednesday via press release, hopes the board will “continue...
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L.A. Controller Pushes for Increased Oversight of IT Projects
Los Angeles Controller Ron Galperin has made a series of recommendations for how to strengthen city oversight of IT projects, contracts and equipment, as investigations into an alleged fraud of more...
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Congestion Pricing: Is There a Perfect Technology Solution?
The technology supporting traffic reduction efforts like congestion pricing largely mirrors toll road technologies, and is poised to venture further into video and GPS-based systems in the future....
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Will San Francisco Ban Facial Recognition Technology?
San Francisco deliberated this week on whether to ban municipally operated facial recognition software. If it did so, the city would be the first in the country to put a moratorium on the highly...
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California Police Agency Authorized for Wider Drone Deployment
Police-operated drones in Southern California have been given permission for broader operation, allowing them to fly beyond where operators can see them. The Chula Vista Police Department has been...
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What’s New in Civic Tech: CfA Justice Project Gets Donations
This Saturday is April 20, colloquially known as 4-20 and celebrated nationwide by those who enjoy recreational marijuana. To honor the day, the cannabis platform Eaze will donate up to $100,000 to...
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Why Did Washington State's Privacy Legislation Collapse?
A large privacy bill in Washington state that had been expected to pass this session has failed to do so. The Washington Privacy Act (WPA) would have been the second of its kind in the nation, a...
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Utah Embarks on a Mission to Familiarize Residents with AVs
Small self-driving shuttles will begin traveling through Utah as the state launches a pilot to introduce the technology to residents. The Utah Transit Authority, in partnership with Utah Department of...
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GovEx Pop-Ups Bring the Center’s Teachings Direct to Cities
The Center for Government Excellence (GovEx) at Johns Hopkins University has taken its work on the road, holding a series of pop-up workshops in cities across the country. GovEx, for those who are...
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Is Your Smart City Watching You? There's an Icon for That
As surveillance technologies have become increasingly common in public spaces, measures of consent and transparency have struggled to keep up. On any given day, urban citizens encounter more traffic...
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