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New York’s New Broadband Plan Hopes to (Finally) Address the Digital Divide
(Photo by Kevin Christopher Burke / CC BY-NC 2.0) In New York City, nearly a third of households do not have a broadband internet connection at home, and over 1.5 million New Yorkers have neither a...
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These Standardized Metrics Will Help Cities Measure Their Post-Pandemic Recovery
A World Council on City Data map showing the number of in-patient hospital beds available in cities. Only cities whose data meets the ISO's standard are shown on this map. (Map via World Council on...
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California’s Streamlined SNAP App Pivots to Meet COVID-19 Demand
GetCalFresh applicant Dylan Acosta. (Photo courtesy Code for America) Since Code for America streamlined the process for applying for California’s food stamp program — known as CalFresh — the...
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Cities Turn to Virtual Tools to Stay Connected With Their Citizens
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Mayor Walt Maddox's town hall on Friday, April 3, with Drs. Robin Wilson and Dr. Blake Lovely of DCH Health System. (Screenshot via Facebook) As COVID-19 ravages through the...
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From the Covid-19 Crisis to Rebuilding our Public Technology Infrastructure...
(Photo by Tim Franklin Photography / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) Over the last decade the private sector has shifted its work online. From Google Suite to Asana to Zoom to Slack, today’s workplaces live on the...
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Minnesota Library Launches COVID-19 Hotline to Answer Resident Questions
The Rochester Public Library (Photo courtesy Kim Edson) As the coronavirus crisis continues to reshape the way communities support and care for their members, libraries have been one of the public...
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A Virtual Landscape-Architecture Camp Introduces Girls to Careers They Didn’t...
Girls in "Field Day Camp." (Photo collage courtesy Jonathon Geels) When Jonathon Geels holds up a glass or travel mug in front of his webcam and tells students to pretend that it’s a building, they...
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Amid COVID-19, SNAP Rolls Out Online Ordering
(Photo by Tim Reckmann / CC BY 2.0) As states continue to add new flexibility measures to their SNAP programs to increase access during this unprecedented time of need, as luck would have it, a...
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The Remote School Year Is Almost Over. Here’s How Philly Schools Fared
(Photo: fizkes/iStockPhoto) As the novel coronavirus pandemic wears on, at least 124,000 U.S. schools containing roughly 55.1 million students have been closed. In most states, closures are extending...
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Why San Francisco’s Librarians Make Great Contact Tracers
San Francisco Public Library acting district manager Jessica Jaramillo doing contact-tracing work from home. (Photo courtesy Jessica Jaramillo) Only a few weeks before San Francisco Mayor London Breed...
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In Austin, ConnectATX Makes COVID-19 Resources Easy to Find
Volunteers at Good Apple pack bags of groceries to donate to people in need in Austin. Many Austinites found Good Apple through a new service, ConnectATX, that aims to be a one-stop shop for aid...
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Philly’s Community Organizations Have a Critical Role In Development. Can...
On Philadelphia's official map of Registered Community Organizations, a complex web of overlapping lines. (City of Philadelphia) On the first Tuesday of every non-summer month, for at least the last...
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Tulsa Innovation Labs Looking to Create the Nation’s Most Inclusive Tech...
(Photo courtesy Holberton School Tulsa) Staci Aaenson-Fletcher, a Tulsan previously working as an accountant, recently took a career turn. “I was working in an accounting job with a large corporation...
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How Europe’s Greenest Capital Is Saving City Trees
(Photo by Marco Derksen / CC BY-NC 2.0) “Covered either by bristling forests or by foul swamps” is how Tacitus described the wild lands of Germania in 98 AD. While those ancient trees, from which...
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How Minneapolis Pivoted Its Summer Youth Employment Program Online
(Photo by Nicole Wolf on Unsplash) R.T. Rybak was the mayor of Minneapolis in the post-9/11 economy of 2003, when city, state and county budgets were slumping. Related Stories Economics in Brief: Many...
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Adopt a “Digital Building Code” to Permanently Decrease the Digital Divide
Recently, I signed an addendum to my apartment lease. It disclosed a potential exposure to lead, which can be “especially harmful to children and pregnant women.” In the COVID era, lack of access to...
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CannonDesign Hosts “Hackathon” For Solutions to Food Insecurity
A student at a university food bank (Photo: Connie Tsang) Sponsored content from CannonDesign. Sponsored content policy Those who don’t have access to enough healthy and culturally appropriate food...
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These Students Want to Make It Easier for Low-Income Seniors to Visit the...
Co-founder Arjun Verma with staff at the Lake Nona VA Medical Center in Orlando, Florida, dropping off a donation of 40 tablets for patients in need. (Photo courtesy Telehealth For Seniors) The...
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Their App Sends Free Mail to Incarcerated People. Now They’re Helping...
(Photo courtesy Ameelio) All incarcerated residents of Maine have the right to vote — it’s one of two states, alongside Vermont, that allows it — but few actually do so. Low literacy rates and...
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New Website Aims to Demystify Austin’s Local Politics
(Photo by Keith Ivey / CC BY-NC 2.0) What if politics wasn’t all that bad, not as rough and tumble and aggressive as it seems? Related Stories Austin’s Housing Authority Flexes New Muscles in...
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