Neighborhood planning is governed by a biased, unrepresentative system.

Due to the broad lack of understanding from government and corporates about what it means to ‘engage with communities’ – what ‘engage’ means and how it might or could be achieved. Many Community Engagement Practitioners use this spectrum as a way of being consistent with their engagement across multiple consultations, using a tried and tested tool designed specifically for the sector, which justifies a clear and trusted methodology for their ‘engagement’.

In our latest guest blog Alan Budge discusses his feelings about the climate emergency, sees some rays of hope, and offers some ways forward. 

In the 21st century, a seemingly global prosperity masks an unequal distribution of benefits. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the world’s cities, where extreme wealth can exist next door to concentrated poverty. In some cities, like…

The company, now called Be Heard, has launched a blockchain-based solution for verifying users' identities it thinks could help with things like municipal IDs. The twist: All information is stored on a person's device.

We know that there are many digital service teams launching at the state and local level, and in the spirit of helping these teams skip over the learning process we underwent over the first two years of our existence, here is a sampling of what we learned - some surefire ways to make sure your public interest tech project will succeed

Three decades later, is it time for the city simulation game to get political?

First came Silicon Valley, Alley and Roundabout. Now, democracy technology is getting a home too

Maimunah Mohd Sharif has been leading the United Nations program for sustainable urban development since 2018.

13 million U.S. coastal residents are expected to be displaced by 2100 due to sea level rise. Researchers are starting to predict where they’ll go.

The New York City Civic Engagement Commission, established through a charter amendment approved by voters in 2018, is tasked with crafting a new citywide participatory budgeting program modeled after the City Council’s efforts to engage New Yorkers in funding local projects. A plan is required to be in place by July 1, the start of the next city fiscal year.

Replica's tool melds cell phone and census data to help governments decide where to spend their money.

If we want to prevent disasters like the Iowa caucus app, we need to change the way we fund, build, and employ the campaign workers, techies included.

Online cities are becoming a powerful tool for decision makers

SEAT has designed a smart automobile that knows whether a light will be red, green or amber.

Dockless e-scooters swept cities worldwide in 2018 and 2019. In 2020, expect the battery-powered micromobility revolution to take a new direction.

Technology can help tailor infrastructure to cater for people with disabilities

An urban village hall that adapts to local needs, a community art wall to enable public discourse, and a virtual reality game for development trade-offs are just three of 18 innovations profiled in a paper by the UK Green Building Council.

She will remain on in an advisory capacity as two senior leaders from within take over as co-interim CEOs. The organization’s search for a permanent CEO will continue with a goal of finishing by the end of the year.

At the turn of the millennium, technologists envisioned a future world of autonomous vehicles, online voting and high-flying drones. How does the state of tech in 2020 compare to predictions made on the cusp of Y2K?

Whether it's embedded sensors or autonomous robots, cities are going to get a whole lot smarter in the 2020s. But some super ambitious developments are leading the way by building whole new city developments built around the latest tech. Here are 5 such projects to keep an eye on.

Unique vehicle-counting sensors will be placed in 1,500 homes across Europe.

Imagine your smartphone knew everything about the city – but the city didn’t know anything about you. Wouldn’t that be truly ‘smart’?

I’m over government “innovation.” Not because innovation isn’t conceptually important, but because of the term carries a sense of ownership relegated to a chosen few in any given organization.