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How to be a ‘Start-Up City’
Former Chicago and District of Columbia transportation head Gabe Klein highlights eight lessons leaders should follow when building innovative approaches to better cities in his book “Start-Up City.”...
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icitizen wants you to stay informed, engaged beyond the voting booth
icitizen re-launched in January 2016 with a broader goal, to change how we communicate on civic issues, connect with our communities and “promote meaningful change.” icitizen’s Jacel Egan shares the...
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Y Combinator wants to make cities better
Y Combinator (Photo: Paul Miller) Y Combinator is looking for a team of people to lead research on how to make cities better, and will use the findings to help determine how to invest in future...
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Bay Area cities team with startups to solve civic problems, scale government...
Bay Areas cities San Francisco, Oakland, West Sacramento and San Leandro teamed with startups this year as part of the Startup in Residence program to “explore ways to use technology to make...
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Ekistic Ventures launches $15M fund to ‘solve critical urban problems’
Photo: Mariano Mantel Adding to the increased interest in investment opportunities around civic and government technology, a new venture fund, Ekistic Ventures, launched with the intent of “building a...
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What’s different about GovTech?
Building and selling products to government is hard. If you’re reading this post, I’ll assume you’ve heard the “if we only fixed procurement…” soundbite. This post isn’t about fixing procurement,...
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How government can enable peace through entrepreneurship
Photo: USAID Afghanistan In “Peace Through Entrepreneurship: Investing in a Startup Culture for Security and Development,” former State Department staffer Steven Koltai makes the case that world peace...
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CivStart wants to help government leverage technology that serves the needs...
CivicStart co-founders Nick Lyell, Anthony Jamison, Sarah Kerner CivStart is a new government-focused start-up accelerator that wants to ensure civic technology products “don’t get made in a vacuum —...
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