Establishing Foundational Practices in Edmonton
On paper, the City of Edmonton has mastered advanced data practices. Throughout its more than six years of working with open data and open government…
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One Community’s Journey To Fix a Road Well Traveled
Bill Gates once said, “Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” This mindset is how the City of Olathe continues to improve…
Improving Mass Transit Through Partnerships
For six weeks earlier this year, many Baltimoreans had to find an alternative way to get to work due to the emergency shutdown of the…
Education & workforce
In partnership with the Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy (IEP), Bloomberg American Health Initiative, Baltimore's Promise, and others, GovEx focuses on supporting cities in improving…
How to Hire an Employee in 30 Days
When Denise McKay, Director of the Department of Personnel Management, took her new position with the City of Jackson, it took 84 days to get…
NYC’s Model: Education for Economic Improvement
This is the second in a series of posts exploring education policy options for Mayors Economic development is often top of mind for Mayors, but…
Getting Started with Performance Analytics: A Refresher Course
This month we’re launching our new GovEx training center, offering government staff worldwide a series of online and on-site courses ranging from data management, to…
How Istanbul is Using Maps to Improve Services for Children & Families
Children and families are often overlooked when cities do urban planning. However, an initiative from the Bernard van Leer Foundation is changing that for cities…
Increasing Accessibility to City Services Through Design-Thinking
When most people hear the word, “design,” they probably think about the process of designing a website or a brochure. Or for some, the term…
Immigration by the Numbers
When it comes to immigration, there are a lot of assumptions and speculations about who is doing what, from where, and why. As one of…