San Francisco jump-started its inaugural City Innovate Summit on June 17 with an international group of mayors and city officials showcasing their latest initiatives and strategies to solve vexing civic challenges. San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee laid the groundwork for …

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Whether it’s about municipal reinvention, investment opportunity or collaboration, the inaugural City Innovate Summit aims to deliver a host of lessons in urban ingenuity when it debuts in San Francisco this week, June 17-18. Organized by the City Innovate Foundation …

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Gathering at its San Francisco headquarters June 10, the civic innovation group Code for America (CfA) showcased a lineup of latest apps and efforts for eight localities in 2015. Tagged as its BETA event, the meeting provided a status update …

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To take advantage of the next chapter in open data and data-driven strategy, numerous localities unveiled plans on June 9 to test out a new kind of data platform — one that leverages both open and internal data similar to …

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Today’s public has a complicated relationship with the police, but a little governance may simplify things yet. In an attempt to increase trust with the public, Kentucky’s Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD) recently opened three data sets: hate crimes, citations and …

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Libraries can evoke tired assumptions. It could be a stack of battered books and yesteryear movies; that odd odor of wilted pages and circa-1970s decor; or it could be a bout of stereotypes, like obsolete encyclopedias and ruler-snapping librarians. Whatever …

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Data-minded health startups rejoiced Tuesday over new and unprecedented access to the nation’s largest repository of health data: the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services digital archive. Acting CMS Administrator Andy Slavitt made the announcement in Washington, …

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