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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…

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…

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…

In the last few years, cities have invested in data visualization tools and strategies to help residents engage more effectively with open data sets. City…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…