“It doesn’t require a huge staff to get insight from data."

Cynthia Curry, director IoT ecosystem expansion at the Metro Atlanta Chamber, outlines the areas of emphasis city and business leaders in Atlanta, GA, identified to transform Atlanta into a leading smart city.

In a state where small communities abound, cities and towns are exploring new and innovative approaches to boost economic growth.  

The latest Agora Journalism Center Report illuminates what it takes for newsrooms to be “engagement ready.”

How Denver Became One of America's Most Walkable Cities

How can public servants create impactful policies using human-centred design? Prototyping for Policy brought together designers and leaders to find out.

From your Planning Directors to PIOs, each department in your agency has different reasons for why and methods as to how they use online community engagement. Join us for an interdepartmental tour of those why's and how's, featuring best practice examples from clients across the globe.

While the environmental impact of millions of people living in close proximity to each other can be clearly seen in pollution levels, increased demand on water, and high consumption of electricity - the “Urban Heat Island” effect is a more subtle impact that cities can have on their inhabitants and immediate surroundings.

Wants to know about standout products and services, lessons learned and challenges.

A new short film reveals how the Dutch city reengineered itself around the bicycle, with life- and money-saving results.

From modernist machine-built perfection to a nuclear-proof metropolis buried far underground, our predictions for future cities tell us much about the past

A collection of stories exploring how we might be using technology for good in the year 2030

Plus, Arlington, Texas, has a new City at Work transparency dashboard with user experiences as a core goal and a new website called Citygrader.com wants to be Yelp for local government and other public agencies.

Startups and age-old mega corporations across the US are clamoring to develop tech solutions that tackle government’s biggest challenges. And for good reason. These ‘govtech’ companies recognize that…

Cities of Service received more than one hundred applications for the 2019 Engaged Cities Award from cities across the Americas and Europe. With help from an esteemed group of experts, Cities of Service chose 10 finalists, whose solutions achieved impact by engaging citizens in a variety of ways, including: impact volunteering, participatory design, crowdsourcing, and citizen-sourced data. Finalists tackled challenges related to the environment and sustainability, health and safety, neighborhood revitalization, and more.

All ten finalists combined bold mayoral leadership and the reach of city hall with the on-the-ground knowledge of citizens to address serious problems. Their incredible work demonstrates what cities can accomplish when they are open to the ideas and talents of citizens.

New innovations are forcing citizens to revisit some foundational questions of governance about who should be shaping the future of the country.

The vision of the technology-powered metropolis of the future is being sold with images that bear little resemblance to the real world.

The 2019 Copenhagenize Index ranks the world's urban hubs on how much they're doing to promote life on two wheels.

The mastermind of Hush City, an app that maps the urban soundscape, says that stress from traffic and construction noise is an under-appreciated environmental risk.

As Europe boils in a record-breaking heat wave, the French capital is rolling out its new heat emergency procedures.

Google sibling company Sidewalk Labs has revealed its master plan for the controversial Quayside waterfront development—and it’s a lot bigger.

Building on lessons learned from the program’s past, this year’s iteration will see the national civic tech group more closely integrating its fellowship program with its network of hyper-local brigades.

Stockholm Environment Institute research finds mobilised citizens key to expanding public participation to achieve sustainability goals.

The Sunlight Foundation is investigating how open data can inspire community action around issues that matter to residents.

Causes grew to a jaw-dropping 200 million users as one of the first 10 Facebook platform apps. Started by Facebook co-founder Sean Parker, it was meant to turn a generation into activists and philanthropists. Causes acquired Votizen to augment shallow clicktivism with a way to remind friends to vote. But after Facebook went mobile and […]