Applying Ethical Principles to Technologies… Finally!
When I was hired into my first government job, I had to sign a lot of paperwork. Some of those were forms acknowledging that I…
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On the Right Path: Improving Bike Safety & Infrastructure in Florence
Since closing its city center to most traffic and launching Europe’s first free-flowing bike share, the Municipality of Florence has become one of the most…
3 Ways Cities Can Prepare for a Resilient Food System Before a Crisis
A couple of years ago, Baltimore was hit with the largest snowstorms in its history. The city was in a state of emergency causing the…
The Weaponizing of Science: Taking Sides
A friend of mine recently quipped that the heavy rainfall we’ve been experiencing in the mid-Atlantic is going to be the new normal, “but Trump…
4 Tips to a Clear and Friendly Dashboard
A city dashboard’s primary goal is to give citizens a clear, user-friendly tool to see how well their city is doing. When designing your dashboard,…
So you want to start a data academy…
Data can be powerful. But to really harness your data, you need people skilled in analysis, data management, and data-informed decision-making. Many cities are taking…
In Gilbert, Data and Technology Is All Fun and Games
If you’re a kid, what’s the only thing better than competing against your friends to win a fun video game? Competing to MAKE the best…
Upping Our Resilience Game Through Performance Measures
Guest author, Rebecca Jackson, is the Strategic Performance Analytics Director for the City of Fayetteville, North Carolina. For the City of Fayetteville, stormwater management is…
How They Did It: Athens-Clarke & its new Performance Practice
As a GovEx Senior Advisor working with Athens-Clarke County, Georgia, watching their efforts to develop a performance measurement practice was inspiring, and a terrific example…
Towards Eliminating Bias in Open 311 Requests
Representing the Center for Government Excellence (GovEx), we recently attended the 4th Annual International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2), hosted by Northwestern University’s Kellogg…