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Bloomberg to Give $42 Million to Help Mid-Size Cities With Big Data
A Chicago resident displays the City of Chicago snowplow tracker app. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green) New Orleans’ “BlightStat” program helped to reduce blighted residences there by 10,000. New York...
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Smartphone Users Love Their Map Apps
(AP Photo) While 65 percent of Americans have recently gone online to find government information, only 53 percent think open data will make officials more accountable. Related Stories California...
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Open Data Deal With City Means L.A. Waze Users Will Get More Than Traffic Stats
A Waze user observes traffic. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma) Thanks to a new open data deal with the City of Los Angeles, navigation app Waze will now push updates about everything from construction and road...
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New App Touts Cheaper Parking in Chicago
Parking kiosk on Wells Street in Chicago (Photo by Wesha) Parking in Chicago is bad. With the privatization of its parking meters and its reputation as one of the most expensive cities to park, this...
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Here’s What Happens When You Let Artists Play With Big Data
Urban Heartbeat, which turns data into sound, was one of three winners in Data Canvas’ recent Sense Your City competition. In just a few decades, we’ve turned into a data-producing species. According...
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Can Social Media Effectively Shame California’s Water Wasters?
Water runs off from a sprinkler in a neighborhood in the Hollywood Hills area of Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes) California residents are taking to social media to shame their neighbors into...
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How 8 Cities Score on Making the Tech Hub Concept Work for Them
(AP Photo/Paul Sakuma) The cities with the strongest markets for civic innovation are also the cities where entrepreneurs believe strong connections exist between the tech community — those forming...
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Can Better Maps Stop People From Dying in Ambulances?
(Photo by Peter Richmond) Walk through a crowded city in India, and turn off the main road into any small neighborhood. Take a couple lefts, a few rights, and then another left. Do you know where you...
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Love Cities and Dig Technology? If So, We Have the Fellowship for You
Sponsored content from Code for America. Apply to be a Code for America fellow today. Applications for our 2016 Fellowship class are rolling and will close July 15, 2015. Related Stories Code for...
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Google’s New Sidewalk Labs Wants to Improve City Living
Google CEO Larry Page says, the company’s new Sidewalk Labs “will focus on improving city life for everyone.” (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File) Cities have increasingly been working to apply technology...
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How a Mexico City Traffic Experiment Connects to Community Trust
(Credit: Laboratorio Para La Ciudad) The extent to which Mexico City functions — say, the fact that water comes out of most faucets — often seems like a miracle. Famous for the worst traffic in the...
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This City Used Big Data to Beat a Big Rat Problem
(Map: City of Somerville) In 2012, Somerville, Massachusetts, was facing what Daniel Hadley, now Mayor Joe Curtatone’s chief of staff, called an “onslaught of rats.” Related Stories Google’s New...
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New App Gives Brooklynites a Chance to Be Neighborly About Parking
Will SpotPog make parking easier in Brooklyn? (Photo by Beyond My Ken) Is there a cure for parking headaches? The creators of a new free app introduced in Brooklyn this week, SpotPog, hope that a...
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Google’s Sidewalk Labs Announces First Project
(Credit: LinkNYC) New Google-backed urban innovation company Sidewalk Labs announced its first big project this week: bringing free high-speed Internet to everyone in the nation’s largest city....
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UCLA Professor Wants to Make Sure the Smartphone Doesn’t Kill the City
Architect Roger Sherman envisions a crowdsourced building of a giant structure in the Westwood neighborhood of L.A. (Credit: Roger Sherman) Victor Hugo said, “The book will kill the building.” Roger...
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Annoyed by Robocalls? This One Can Save Lives
(Credit: Reliefwatch) When you get off the flight, you’re already antsy. At the baggage carousel, you watch black suitcases glide past until the crowd evaporates and only airport employees stacking...
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Cleveland to Bring New Tech Tools to the Fight Against Blight
Cleveland’s City Hall (Photo by Stu Spivack) Last October, Ohio’s Cuyahoga County Council approved a $50 million demolition bond, much of it earmarked for dealing with Cleveland’s condemned homes....
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Lawsuits Stack Up in Employee vs. Contractor Battle of Summon-by-App Economy
A Postmates delivery (AP Photo/Candice Choi) The lawyer behind lawsuits against Uber and Lyft over whether drivers should be considered employees or independent contractors is taking on similar...
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Google Takes on Carpooling With Waze Spinoff App
Google has started testing a Waze-spinoff carpooling app. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma) A new carpooling app from Google made its debut in the form of a small pilot test in Tel Aviv this week. RideWith is a...
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Qatar Developer Turns to Big Data to Track Workers Ahead of World Cup
Laborers working on 2022 World Cup facilities head to their housing in Doha, Qatar. (This May 2015 photo was taken during a government-organized media tour.) (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo) Earlier this...
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