Rise of the Smart City SuperCluster
Many theories have come out of the study (and mistakes) of urban planning. The latest is the concept for a Smart City.
Posts Tagged: technology
3 Strategies for an Excellent Municipal Summer Fellowship Program
Here are some of our lessons learned that you could use to prepare your own municipal fellowship program for its next set of innovators.
Will Cities Be Ready for 5G?
Journalist Scott Fulton III describes fifth-generation wireless, or 5G, as “a capital improvement project the size of the entire planet.” He’s not wrong. And it’s coming fast.
How GIS Can Modernize Disease Surveillance
Disease surveillance has long been important to preserving the health of people around the world, deterring outbreaks by monitoring the spread of disease and reacting as efficiently as possible. But what if the reaction could occur before the disease spreads at all? Geographic Information Systems (GIS) might be the key.
Equipping the Federal Workforce for Mission Success: It Starts with the Right Technology
To achieve end-to-end transformation across a diverse workforce, employees need devices that maximize productivity.
Austin’s Paper Census: Helping Government Break Up with Paper
Where do you start when you decide to become a smart city? For Austin, one of the first steps is going paperless.
How to Use Community Organizing Tools to Power Innovation
The following are community organizing tools that carry over into the government technology space and have helped me be a more effective innovator.
The Importance of Teaching them to Fish in Tech Support
It’s just as important to teach the customer to fish and solve their own problems as it is to fix the technology.
Trailblazers in Government Blockchain
Government adoption of blockchain is still nascent but a few brave government agency leaders see the potential of the technology, and are experimenting with ways to use blockchain to make government services more effective.
The Government CIO: Today’s New Business Leader
The government CIO is now responsible for a massive amount of internal business processes which have been fundamentally altered due to the infusion of technology.