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Vegas, D.C. Showcase Their Smart Cities Approaches In Austin, Texas
AUSTIN, Texas — At this week's the Smart Cities Connect Conference, officials have acknowledged that the next iteration of the smart city should focus more on people and less on infrastructure; the...
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Report: Federal Regulations Website Should Consider Adopting Yelp-Style...
Regulations.gov launched in 2003 during then-President George W. Bush’s first term as an online resource to research and comment on federal regulations under development. Despite making improvements...
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Chicago Names Tech Insider CIO to Replace Brenna Berman
Several months after the departure of former Chicago CIO Brenna Berman, the City Council has backed Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s choice for her replacement in longtime city tech insider Danielle DuMerer. The...
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What’s New in Civic Tech: Washington, D.C., to Publish Traffic Crash Data...
Washington, D.C., will publish its traffic crash data every 24 hours in an open and geocoded format, Mayor Muriel Bowser announced June 29. This effort supports Vision Zero, the mayor’s initiative to...
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How Building Baseline Video Analytics via Crowdsourcing Can Lead to Safer...
Teaching computers object recognition has become a goal for many in recent years. Breakthroughs in facial recognition have infiltrated smartphone apps that give people in regular selfies animal ears...
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Cary, N.C., Turns Existing Government Campus into a Simulated Smart City
As cities around the globe adopt new smart cities road maps and strategic plans for new technology implementations, the town of Cary, N.C., has taken an entirely different approach — one that...
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New Resident-Facing Platform Seeks Public Input, Minus the Trolls
A new civic tech platform seeks to solicit useful feedback from residents about government, while at the same time eliminating the presence of the trolls and bots that have made online discourse an...
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Oregon Gets Cybersecurity Booster Shot with Governor’s Approval of Senate...
The increasing attention on cybersecurity in the wake of large-scale breaches and ballooning cyberthreats has forced many states to re-evaluate and restructure their approaches. Most recently, Oregon...
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Louisville, Ky., Looks to 'IFTTT' as Future of Open Data, Among Other Services
As municipal governments across the country look to make open data sets easier for the average citizen to read and understand, Louisville, Ky., has adopted a new approach that it hopes can bridge this...
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5 Ways Sensor Technology Can Improve City Infrastructure (Industry...
More than 6.5 billion people are expected to live in cities by 2050, according to UN estimates. That figure represents more than double the number of people currently living in such settlements. In...
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Ransomware Epidemic: Where Next After Petya and WannaCry?
A headline-grabbing cyberattack this past week halted the world’s largest container shipper, forced a West Virginia hospital to scrap its computer system and go back to paper, hit global advertiser...
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6 Traits of Productive Hackathons
When people think of hackathons, they likely imagine a dimly lit room full of young coders armed with energy drinks and high-powered laptops frantically writing lines of code. However, government...
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California's Agile Child Welfare Project Awards Bid to CivicActions
The California Child Welfare Digital Services (CWDS) project, which the state government’s technology officials are treating as a pilot for agile methods, has awarded an early contract for development...
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19 States Refuse to Comply With Trump's Voter Data Request
On Wednesday, June 28, Donald Trump’s Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity sent letters to all 50 secretaries of state requesting voter names, addresses, dates of birth, party...
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Report: Cryptocurrency Market Has More than Tripled Since 2016
3+ Million People Are Actively Using Cryptocurrencies A report by the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance gathered data from 144 companies and individuals in 38 countries, and determined that the...
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Determining the Feasibility of Shared Mobility Services in Low-Income, Rural...
DAVIS, Calif. — While new mobility options have proliferated rapidly, their effects have not spread evenly across the country. And at a recent workshop called Pooling and Pricing: Harnessing the 3...
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3 State Transportation Agencies Turn to Smart Technologies to Save Time,...
In 2013, the most recent year surveyed, the Federal Highway Administration (FHA) found that 16 percent of the nation's highways were in poor or mediocre condition and needed repaving or larger...
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Transform Your City with Image Recognition (Industry Perspective)
Advances in artificial intelligence mean applications increasingly can take on image recognition capabilities that allow them to identify objects, detect the age of human faces and screen out adult...
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What’s New in Civic Tech: ‘Why I’m Staying at 18F’ Author Departs Over...
As the votes were tallied in November and it became clear that Donald Trump was the nation’s next president, Noah Kunin wrote a blog post titled, “Why I’m staying at 18F.” On July 5, Kunin wrote...
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Sacramento, Calif., to Serve as 'Green City' with Massive Electric Vehicle...
Last week, Volkswagen (VW) cemented its interest in establishing an electric vehicle (EV) carsharing network in California's capital city of Sacramento. The auto manufacturer, as a part of the $14.7...
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