Local governments across the country are starting to look to tech, big data and artificial intelligence for new answers to old questions. How can cities be most efficient with their limit...
During the wave of hurricanes that tore through a number of coastal areas in September, crowdsourcing was a lifesaving tool, allowing residents in need of rescue to input their locations...
People tend not to think that bad things will happen to them. This psychological proclivity towards optimism—logically termed “optimism bias”—is in many ways a beneficial feature of the h...
At the Summit on Data-Smart Government in late 2017, San Diego CDO Maksim Pecherskiy delivered a lighting talk on the value of making government data disaster ready.
In the wake of Hurric...
How many traffic fatalities is too many? If you’re a Vision Zero city, the answer is one.
Started in Sweden in 1997 with the goal of eliminating fatalities and severe injuries from traffi...
