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February 28, 2017
“The Role of Public Health in Complete Streets” webinar recap | Smart Growth America
EngagingCities Staff
Last week we hosted the first webinar of our new series, Implementation & Equity 201: The Path Forward to Complete Streets. Together with Voices for Healthy Kids and the American Public Health Association, we explored “The Role of Public Health in Complete Streets”. Watch the full video recording of the webinar above, or download the … Continued February 28, 2017
Public Engagement Roadmap - Map Your Public Engagement Process
EngagingCities Staff
A Roadmap for Local Government 
New resources available for cities that aim to develop and kick-start a robust public engagement strategy. 
Huddersfield is weird. To the casual visitor it looks a lot like many towns in Britain- ethnically diverse, fairly deprived, getting on with it. There’s no outward hallmarks of thriving civic… February 27, 2017
Can a New Town Square Bridge the Electoral Divide? - Reimagining the Civic Commons
EngagingCities Staff
America has become a politically divided and fractured country. How and where do we start to rebuild the social fabric essential to our democracy? 
Jane Mordue, the newly appointed permanent chair of Healthwatch England, explains why listening to feedback from the public is much more likely to help NHS and social care leaders make the right decis 
No one wants to live in a “dumb” city. But I question whether anyone ought to want to live in a really smart city either. I’d prefer to just live in a smarter city -- one that puts my privacy and security first before rolling out ubiquitous sensors and broad-scale data collection in the name of some larger public good. February 26, 2017
Sounds in the City: Are you listening to the world around you?
EngagingCities Staff
Sounds in the City: Are you listening to the world around you? "To get beyond NIMBYism, we first must understand it," writes Richard Florida. Richard Florida shares insights into a recent white paper published in December 2016 by Paavo Monkkonen, which "sheds interesting new light on the connection between NIMBYism and housing affordab February 25, 2017
When It Comes to Urban Development, More Folks Are Saying: “Yes, in My Backyard”
EngagingCities Staff
From NIMBY to YIMBY: What a difference a generation (and an urban housing shortage) makes. February 25, 2017
Smart Cities Council | The four pillars of mobility as a service: Integrating driverless cars and mass transit
EngagingCities Staff
City planners are intrigued by the potential of driverless cars. But how can they be seamlessly integrated into urban transportation systems? Our guest authors explain why mobility as a service is the right approach. 
Jean-Baptiste Maur's curator insight,
April 28, 2017 2:25 PM
You can compare driverless cars demand to Netflix but don't forget that the network has its limits. If everyone want to get on board of driverless cars, congestion will dramaticly increase. It's like trying to access Netflix all at the same time... but with a very limited bandiwdth capacity.
On-going research projects in the Participatory Publics Lab February 24, 2017
Welcome 2017 Code for America fellows and government partners - Code for America
EngagingCities Staff
We are excited to introduce the 2017 fellows and the government partners changing how they deliver key services. February 24, 2017
What's The Connection Between Civic Engagement And Civics Education?
EngagingCities Staff
Whether it was this fascinating election season or a wider trend in education, an increasing number of organizations are joining an already crowded field attempting to reinvigorate civics education. 
Kimberly Byrne's curator insight,
May 3, 2017 6:56 AM
Provides links to what is currently happening in the USA to make Civics Education more appealing to today's learners.
Kimberly Byrne's curator insight,
May 11, 2017 6:37 AM
This article provides links to what is currently happening in the US.
February 24, 2017
Putting customer centricity at the heart of public sector services
EngagingCities Staff
With mobile, social and cloud technologies driving the way we live, work and interact across all areas of life, public sector organisations can adopt the same tech as businesses to engage more closely with citizens and employees. Gavin Mee, Senior Vice President, Enterprise, at Salesforce, shines a light on how technology can overhaul local government’s service delivery. February 23, 2017
Pilot programs announced as Guelph wraps first round of Civic Accelerator
EngagingCities Staff
City’s Water Services and Planning departments to test new tools Guelph, Ont., February 23, 2017 – The City of Guelph’s Civic Accelerator, which turns the 
This February, in St. Louis, MO, the New Partners for Smart Growth (NPSG) conference hosted a unique set of spaces that have become a tradition of the conference. Parklets 5.0 was the fifth annual initiative to bring the urban green space movement indoors. Parklets are parking space-sized areas used for recreational, community gathering, or beautification… 
This week, 16 other budding journalists and I journeyed on into the realm of community engagement. When I first heard the words “community engagement,” I was confused. We were journalists. We were… 
A Community Day is to be held in Limerick City that will allow local people to have their say on a range of issues that are important to them.Limerick Community Participation Network (CPN) are inviting the people of Limerick to meet with their Public Participation Network (PPN) representatives to discuss the accessibility issues affecting them … |
EngagingCities amplifies stories of leaders actively working to create a better tomorrow. We publish stories of communities using civic tech to helping residents connect to each other and engage with their government in order to work together for the public good. We support government transparency, accessibility of government data and services, and openly sharing resources. We believe in the power of technology to transform cities and result in more equitable outcomes for all. We are inspired by leaders who civic tech that facilitates meaningful engagement. We advocate for civic tech that empowers all people to have a voice in decision making, makes government more effective, and fuels social change.
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