The task force is creating multi-faceted policy and practice tools to inform, guide, and facilitate responsible data governance by cities and counties

• cities

• Govtech
• Data governance
• Working groups

by Okki Berendschot

• cities
• Reduced inequalities

• Learn about civic tech
• Artistic interventions

ACT NOW is an international programme run by The Innovation in Politics Institute, which supports local politicians in tackling the current challenges they face, such as migration flows, the climate crisis, and increasing social division resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic.

• cities

• Supporting public sector from outside government

The European Capital of Democracy Initiative will build a strong network of Cities that will foster participation; a platform for hope, and for exercising the will and power to change our world for the better.

• cities

• Challenges

ClearRoad provides cloud-based solutions to keep roads well-maintained and well-managed Schedule a demo

• cities

• Urban planning

Our experienced and diverse team of advisors supports municipalities and organizations of all sizes across Canada on a range of data and tech issues. We work alongside our partners’ teams to assess their needs, define problems, mobilize research and knowledge, design solutions and support their implementation. Contact Us

• trainings
• cities

• Govtech
• Peer networks
• Supporting public sector from outside government

A collection of essays edited by Ana Brandusescu and Jess Reia featuring essays from participants of the AI in the City: Building Civic Engagement and Public Trust symposium that took place remotely on February 10, 2022.

• cities

• Emerging tech
• Participatory democracy
• Artificial Intelligence

After the installation, users can decide which messages they want to receive. Then, they will start getting notifications, assigned to one of six categories: alarms (emergencies), safety (e.g. meteorological warnings), breakdowns (e.g. water and sewage), housing estate (neighbourhood messages directed from individual housing estate councils), air (smog reports, exceeded dust particle limits, free communication), transport (road works, communication difficulties).

• apps
• cities

• Issue reporting

Urban AI is a Think Tank that proposes ethical modes of governance and sustainable uses of urban AI.

• cities

• Artificial Intelligence
• Research and policy centers

FastFWD is a partnership among The City of Philadelphia, GoodCompany Group, a social enterprise accelerator, and the Wharton Social Impact Initiative.

• cities

• Accelerators

Documenting the use of defensive urban design in the Greater Toronto Area and beyond.

• cities
• place-based

• Artistic interventions
• Archives

The 2021 Global Mayors Challenge is the farthest reaching, most ambitious to date. After uncovering the 50 most innovative urban solutions in the wake of COVID-19, the Challenge will award 15 grand prize winners $1 million each—to help cities implement their breakthrough ideas and, ultimately, to spread those ideas to other cities on a global scale.

• cities

• Get funding
• Challenges

The cities in this Atlas represent the vanguard of urban governments that are hosting tests, developing their own autonomous vehicle (AV) pilots, making plans and policy, and monitoring developments in AV technologies, uses, and markets.

• mobility
• cities

• Emerging tech
• Hardware
• Automated Vehicles

OneCity allows developers and businesses to identify, evaluate and compare investment opportunities that align with official spatial strategiesWe deliver current information and analysis on a single platform, incorporating data from over thirty qualified sourcesOneCity can be integrated into Local Authority GIS systems, to streamline and support land use planning

• cities

• Civic data
• Mapping tools
• Urban planning

An interactive reconstruction of the destruction of a thriving, Black-owned neighborhood that reconstructs a sense of place

• history
• cities
• racial equity

• Media

An intelligent urban measurement project that’s changing our understanding of cities and urban life. The Array of Things (AoT) is a collaborative effort among scientists, universities, federal and local government, industry partners, and communities to collect real-time data on urban environment, infrastructure, and activity for research and public use. AoT uses an open intelligent sensing and edge computing platform called Waggle, developed at Argonne National Laboratory. AoT was funded primarily by the U.S. National Science Foundation.

• air quality
• cities

• Smart Cities and sensors

With the onset of COVID, BARI has sought to construct a data-support system for a city during a pandemic–both to serve our local communities and to act as a model for others across the country.

• cities

• COVID Data Projects
• Surveys & polling
• COVID Engagement Projects

The leading news platform on urban mobility and innovation, reaching an international audience of city leaders.

• cities

• News and blogs

This page provides an overview of open source projects that are developed, commissioned or funded by public administrations in the state of Berlin. With this offer, we want to improve the transparency of the public IT landscape and invite the digital community in Berlin and beyond to work collaboratively on the development of good software for our city. Diese Seite bietet einen Überblick über Open Source-Projekte, die von öffentlichen Verwaltungen im Land Berlin entwickelt, beauftragt oder gefördert werden. Mit diesem Angebot möchten wir die Transparenz der öffentlichen IT-Landschaft verbessern und die Digital-Community in Berlin und darüber hinaus einladen, kollaborativ an der Entwicklung guter Software für unsere Stadt zu arbeiten.

• cities

• Civic tech catalogs

Numina measures all kinds of curb-level activity. Anonymously and in aggregate, Numina delivers the volume counts, paths, and traffic behaviors of travelers and objects in streets.

• cities
• streetscape
• mobility

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Emerging tech

We are a hands-on, empathy-guided consultancy agency. Our projects help start-ups, corporates, and administrations navigate city ecosystems and deploy impactful urban tech solutions globally.

• cities

• Govtech vendors

Bringing organizations in Detroit together for cross-sector collaboration on urban innovation.

• cities

• Partner networks

We take planning proposals out of city hall and onto their urban context, seamlessly communicating projects with a large, diverse audience to win community support while crowdsourcing stakeholders' feedback.

• apps
• cities

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Urban planning

A l’occasion des élections de 2020, Municipales.app dote le citoyen d’outils pour comprendre le débat, y participer et exprimer sa voix. Participez au changement !

• cities

• Voting and elections
• Voter assistance tech

Six European cities are looking for #AI solutions to accelerate carbon neutrality using pre-commercial procurement.

• cities
• Climate action

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

A design study and report on how digital technology is changing how we design cities

• cities

• Design

Municipality & Town Government WordPress Theme

• Wordpress
• cities

• Website builder

The UK's innovation accelerator for cities, transport & place leadership.

• mobility
• mass transit
• cities

• cities

• Govtech
• Playbooks and design principles
• Digital transformation

Noise pollution nonprofit and creators of the Medusa noise sensors being deployed in Paris

• cities
• noise

• Smart Cities and sensors

You're the general manager of a large city. Balance ethics and corruption to keep your position and get things done. Whatever happens, don't get caught!

• cities

• Games and gamification

ODI & ARUP report and call to action

• Climate action
• cities
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Reports
• Urban planning

ZoningHub gives municipalities a new way to post their #zoning regulations online. Big cities or small villages, ZoningHub is easy and accessible. #civictech

• cities

• Mapping tools

Es un espacio para fomentar la participación de la ciudadanía en la generación de ideas para mejorar la gestión de la ciudad.

• cities

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

We aim to find and elevate the diverse ways that city leaders are actively engaging their citizens to solve critical public problems.

• cities

• Engagement tech
• Awards and prizes

A campaign to name more of Montevideo's streets after women

• Gender Equality
• cities

Cityx is a two-day expo organised by Connected Places Catapult taking place at the Urban Innovation Centre in London from 13th – 14th November 2019.

• cities

• The People
• Meet the others
• Conferences

From websites, meetings, to online forms and payments, the easiest, most cost-effective way to launch and manage all aspects of your digital government operations.

• cities
• Wordpress

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech

A global platform connecting physical places: a curated network for civic innovation, connecting local innovators with government, academia, business, and community both within their cities and around the world.

• cities

• The People
• Build something
• Govtech vendors

Our mission at WeGovNYC is to bring New Yorkers together to create the world’s best municipality.

• cities

• Support civic projects with tech

Make your city better

• apps
• cities

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Govtech

The Urban Knowledge Exchange Southern Africa (uKESA) is an online platform built to benefit urban development decision makers, urban practitioner, researcher or policy maker by providing knowledge on related issues.

• cities

“Marsad Baladia” , or the Municipality Observatory, was launched in January 2014, aiming to monitor municipal activity through access to information, and to present it in a clear and updated manner. The project also aims to strengthen the link between the municipality and citizens,

• cities

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

Internet access in major global subway networks

• cities
• mass transit
• mobility

• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers
• Connectivity

The Startups Driving Europe's GovTech Revolution

• cities

• Awards and prizes

NDI is partnering with Living Cities—an organization that harnesses the collective power of the world’s largest foundations and financial institutions to get dramatically better results for low-income urban residents—on a research initiative to explore the innovative ways that megacity governments are strengthening urban democracy.

• cities
• research

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

“Sharing Cities: Activating the Urban Commons” showcases over a hundred sharing-related case studies and model policies from more than 80 cities in 35 countries.

• books
• cities

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

The playful, city wide system that lets you talk to street furniture.

• cities

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Emerging tech

Calgary’s LoRaWAN — a long-range, low power digital wireless network — sensors will be used to categorize noises like gun shots, trains, construction and road noise through the work of a government partnership.

• cities
• noise

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

Sidewalk Labs is reimagining cities to improve quality of life.

• cities
• mobility

• Civic data
• Civic teams at tech companies