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Pittsburgh Councilman Has Plan for Recovering Stolen Cars
(Photo by Allie Caulfield) Police across U.S. cities have been deploying big data in law enforcement for years, and now one Pittsburgh councilman hopes cross-department cooperation can make it easier...
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Ask and Offer Site Connects City of Portland to Local Startups
(Photo by Steve Morgan) When the Portland Development Commission considered shaking up traditional municipal RFPs two years ago, the city development agency hoped to be able to tap into the city’s...
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Driverless Car Testing and Big Data Intersect in Simulated City
A pedestrian crosses in front of a vehicle as part of a demonstration at MCity, the University of Michigan’s stage-set village for driverless cars, which launched in July. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya) The...
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First 8 Cities Announced for Bloomberg’s $42 Million Data Initiative
Jackson, Mississippi, is one of the first eight cities chosen for What Works Cities. (Photo by Natalie Maynor) Bloomberg Philanthropies announced today the first eight cities chosen for What Works...
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Teaching Kids How to Build Smart Cities
Students present where they chose to locate their “smart city.” (Credit: NYU) Some New York middle-schoolers spent their summer vacation building models of smart cities, complete with futuristic cars...
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Does Bay Area Transit App Make Racial Profiling Easier?
A protest against police violence at an S.F. BART station earlier this year (AP Photo/Noah Berger) It may seem that everyone on the train has eyes glued to phone, but when it comes to transit agencies...
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Hacktivists Work to Protect Chicago’s South Side
A large mound of petcoke in a residential Chicago neighborhood (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast) In another front on civic tech for public good, Chicago hacktivists are taking a stand for citizens’...
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In Nairobi, Health Apps Need an Internet Connection
A shop selling mobile phone products in the Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya (AP Photo/Khalil Senosi) “Somebody beat me,” Liz says, explaining her blackened left eye. She declines to say much more, but...
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Uber? Taxi? Lyft? Finding the Cheapest Ride
(Photo by Alexander Torrenegra) It’s a Saturday night, you and your friends are ready to go out, and you need a ride. Which service is the best option in your city? More importantly, among Uber, Lyft,...
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Big Data Company Tracks How Cities Live and Breathe
(AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere, File) At first glance, Aclima looks like a typical San Francisco tech startup: They’re young, they’re collecting and analyzing “big data,” and they’re working with...
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Cities and Universities Will Work Together in New MetroLab Network
The University of Pennsylvania and the City of Philadelphia will collaborate as part of the new nationwide MetroLab Network. (Photo by WestCoastivies) Creative collaborations, new technology and solid...
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Tracking Sickness Through a Cellphone
A Pakistani health worker fumigates the area to kill mosquitos and to prevent an outbreak of dengue fever in Lahore. (AP Photo/K.M.Chaudary) Dengue hit me like lightning: One day I was a little tired,...
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Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce Teams Up With Airbnb to Boost Tourism
The Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce hopes a new partnership with Airbnb will draw visitors to neighborhoods such as Bedford-Stuyvesant, above. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) Despite ongoing controversy in New...
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Wood High-Rise Designs in Portland, New York Get $1.5 Million
The 475 West 18th project in New York (Rendering: SHoP Architects) Big building projects in New York and Portland are getting a $3 million funding boost thanks to their innovative plans for wood....
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New Big Data Tool to Show How and Why We Move Around Cities
(Credit: DARPA) Take billions of purchase transactions. Add a mountain of transportation data. Then ask, what is the relationship between how people travel and what they buy? And what does this tell...
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Lyft Office to Leave Bay Area for Nashville
(AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File) Days after Uber announced it was extending its Bay Area office reach to Oakland, Lyft told 20 customer support employees that their jobs would be moving from San Francisco...
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How Will Kansas City Run Its Plugged-In, Sensor-Filled Future?
(Credit: KC Streetcar) It hardly feels correct to call the Kansas City streetcar, a two-mile route that will open in the spring of 2016, a transit project. Sure, the streetcar will move people. But it...
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Instant City Is Ideal Testing Place for Mobile Health Apps
Hindu devotees gather for the third royal bath in the Godavari River during the 2015 Kumbh Mela festival, which attracted 10 million people to the city of Nashik in India. (AP Photo/Ajaj Shaikh) A...
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Microsoft, NYC Team Up on New Pipeline to Tech Jobs
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella (AP Photo/Richard Drew) Microsoft this week announced the launch of a 16-week tech training pilot program in NYC that’s based on a previous one it designed to help military...
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Chicago’s Array of Things May Give Big Data Boost to Urban Planning
The Array of Things project will bring 50 sophisticated sensor stations to spots throughout Chicago by early next year (Photo by Rob Mitchum/Urban Center for Computation and Data) Array of Things...
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