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Insights & updates on government, tech, and entrepreneurship.
How Governments Can and Cannot Innovate through Challenges
January 1 2023
How Cities Can Change the Cost of Doing Business with Camino
October 31 2022
How do cities lead?
October 4, 2022
How the 'Smart City' Failed
August 3, 2022
2022 GovTech Tailwinds
January 01, 2022
A New Model of Collaborative Governance for Civic Data
September 01, 2021
Webinar for All Entrepreneurs: Working Smarter With Cities
June 06, 2021
How to Get into Government Work in 2021
April 26, 2021
Restoring Trust in Law Enforcement Through Better Data
April 14, 2021
What I've learned: Three Different Kinds of Civic Data
December 2015
Let us Move Beyond Open Data Portals
January 8, 2017
Data-Driven Policy - San Francisco just showed us how it should work.
August 28, 2016
Open Data, Civic Engagement, and Delivery
October 28, 2015
Small (City) Pieces, Loosely Joined
June 11, 2014
Ubers as Ambulances?
June 3, 2014
Draft Ideas for “#PublicInnovation Academy” Courses
Auguts, 8, 2020
The Gap in Public Sector Innovation
July 11, 2020
Keynote: From Social Innovation to Civic Startups
July 11, 2020
Keynote: Government is What *We* Make of It
September 2014
City Government Technology and Innovation Models
June 6, 2020
Case Studies
Putting Sacramento On the Map: Case study on building an economic development strategy to level-up a city's innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem
Boosting Government Responsiveness with Data Science: Helping ZenCity Make AI Real, and Really Useful for Small Cities
Enabling Data-Driven Decisions in LA: How building a showpiece unveiled the real challenges of PerformanceStat
How technology can increase trust between law enforcement and residents: Starting with a simple text reminders, SPIDR Tech's platform now enables realtime communication and feedback between the community and government
Boosting transparency around police use of force: Data collection problems can stifle reform efforts that rely on data, such as the New Jersey effort to create an "early warning" system for abuse
Letting governments build their own workflows on CityGrows: Accessible and affordable workflow automation for local governments to replace paper forms and pdfs in minutes
Abhi Nemani
