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How to Promote Smarter Water Use by Giving Consumers Access to Their Consumption Data

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2015

Level City or Town, National

State(s) All States

Source Center for Data Innovation

Policy Areas Environment & Natural Resources, Data & Technology

Most consumers do not know how much water they use on a daily basis or how their water consumption compares to that of others because they receive little information on their utility bills. As a result, consumers receive minimal feedback on how changes in their behaviors, household...

Smart Enough Cities: Governments That Seek Mobility Data Must Respect Individual Privacy

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2020

Level City or Town, State

State(s) All States

Source Center for Democracy & Technology

Policy Areas Transportation & Mobility, Data & Technology

The rise of shared mobility services, including rideshare and micro-mobility options such as bicycles and electric scooters, poses new challenges for cities and states. They must manage new kinds of traffic, keep streets and sidewalks safe and accessible, and ensure that transportation...

2020 Madison Ordinance 62413 Banning Facial Recognition Technology

Type Ordinance or Resolution

Year 2020

Level City or Town

State(s) Wisconsin

Source The Common Council of the City of Madison

Policy Areas Data & Technology

Face surveillance is an automated process that assists in identifying an individual based on their facial characteristics. This ordinance prohibits city agencies, departments, and divisions from possessing a face surveillance system or accessing information derived from a face surveillance...

Demanding Better Energy Information: Cities address market failure for energy upgrades

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2012

Level City or Town, City or Town

State(s) Ohio

Source Policy Matters Ohio

Policy Areas Environment & Natural Resources, Economic Justice, Energy, Democracy & Governance

This report emphasizes the importance of providing better energy information to renters, buyers, owners, and operators of buildings. By arming them with this information, they can make more informed choices, differentiate between properties, and determine whether energy upgrades are...

Artificial Intelligence and Copyright Survey

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2020

Level National

State(s) All States

Source Journal of Science Policy & Governance

Policy Areas Data & Technology

The rapid developments in Artificial Intelligence (AI) present a serious challenge to the American copyright system and future advancements in the AI industry. These industries rely on intellectual property protections to maintain equilibrium between productivity, remuneration, and...

No More Shackles: Ten Arguments Against Pretrial Electronic Monitoring

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2020

Level City or Town, County, State

State(s) All States

Source Media Justice

Policy Areas Data & Technology, Public Safety

This report outlines ten arguments against the use of pretrial electronic monitoring. It describes how monitoring restricts a person's ability to earn income; reduces access to legal resources and due process; limits participation in parenting and caregiving, increases the risk of...

The Data Transit Riders Want: A Shared Agenda for Public Agencies and Transit Application Developers

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2018

Level City or Town

State(s) All States

Source Transit Center

Policy Areas Transportation & Mobility, Data & Technology

High quality transit IT provides real-time displays schedules, route networks, vehicle locations, fare structures, and ridership patterns makes life easier for transit riders, public agencies, and application developers. Oftentimes, however, agencies release low-quality data that...

City of Madison IT Strategic Plan

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2021

Level City or Town

State(s) Wisconsin

Source City of Madison IT

Policy Areas Data & Technology

Madison's technology needs and challenges are changing rapidly, requiring an expansion in Information Technology Services and Support. This municipal strategic plan outlines improvements to cities digital toolset, connecting the public with the City government, and prioritizing customer...

2013 San Francisco Ordinance 121017 Regulating Open Data Requirements

Type Ordinance or Resolution

Year 2013

Level City or Town, County

State(s) California

Source San Francisco Board of Supervisors

Policy Areas Democracy & Governance, Data & Technology

This ordinance amends a prior open data policy that empowered San Francisco's Committee on Information Technology to establish rules and standards applicable to all city departments regarding the release of data to the city's online data portal. This ordinance establishes the positions...

Madison Network Security Policies and Procedures

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2022

Level City or Town

State(s) Wisconsin

Source City of Madison

Policy Areas Data & Technology, Democracy & Governance

Data de-identification is the process of modifying or removing personally identifiable information from datasets in a way that minimizes the risk of unintended disclosure of individuals' identities. This report outlines the fundamentals of data de-identification within the educational...

What Works Cities Brief: The City Hall Data Gap

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year -

Level City or Town

State(s) All States

Source What Works Cities

Policy Areas Data & Technology, Democracy & Governance

There is a gap between cities' need to adopt data-driven decision-making processes, their ability to do so, and the expectations of their constituents. This report provides a framework for local governments' data and technology usage, and provides examples of how cities innovate to...

Leading With Transit: How City Leadership on Transit Can Create More Equitable, Sustainable, and Economically Vibrant Cities

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2018

Level City or Town

State(s) All States

Source Mayors Innovation Project

Policy Areas Transportation & Mobility

This brief focuses on what cities can do to create equitable and efficient transit that benefits everyone. An equitable transit system must be safe, convenient, affordable, and accessible; responsive to community needs; and integrated with other policy areas. Moreover, it outlines...

Blocked: Why Some Companies Restrict Data Access to Reduce Competition and How Open APIs Can help

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2017

Level National

State(s) All States

Source Center for Data Innovation

Policy Areas Data & Technology

Businesses in the real estate, financial services, and air travel industries have taken steps to limit third-party access to their data in ways that restrict competition, reduce market transparency, and harm consumers. In order to prevent this behavior, this report recommends that...

Integrated Health Care and Criminal Justice Data in Camden

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2018

Level City or Town

State(s) New Jersey

Source Harvard Kennedy School of Criminal Justice Policy and Management

Policy Areas Data & Technology, Democracy & Governance, Health

The Administrative Records Integration for Service Excellence program (ARISE) is a government initiative in Camden, New Jersey that integrates data from agencies and service providers to gain a more holistic understanding of individuals who frequently interact with the health care...

Estimating Parking Utilization in Multi-Family Residential Buildings in Washington, D.C.

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2015

Level City or Town

State(s) -

Source Center for Neighborhood Technology

Policy Areas Transportation & Mobility, Community Development, Public Spaces, Data & Technology

The District Department of Transportation and the District of Columbia Office of Planning led an effort to develop an empirical model for parking utilization in Washington, D.C, and to apply that model to an interactive, web-based tool utilizing the model named ParkRight DC, to support...

Asset Mapping in Androscoggin County: A Case Study

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2020

Level County

State(s) Maine

Source University of Southern Maine

Policy Areas Community Development, Data & Technology

The Place Matters Project seeks to understand the impact that living environments have on the transition from childhood to adulthood, focusing particularly on those with criminal records or other obstacles. The project, based at the University of Southern Maine, aims to redesign Maine's...

Social Media Monitoring in K-12 Schools: Civil and Human Rights Concerns

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2019

Level City or Town, School District

State(s) All States

Source Center for Democracy & Technology

Policy Areas Civil Rights, Education, Data & Technology

Some schools and school districts are turning to social media monitoring as a response to the threat of mass shootings. Companies are marketing services claiming to identify sexual content and drug and alcohol use; prevent mass violence, self-harm, and bullying; and flag students...

COVID-19: Release People From Prisons and Jails Without Electronic Monitoring

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2020

Level City or Town, County, State

State(s) All States

Source Media Justice

Policy Areas Data & Technology, Public Safety

This brief outlines six arguments opposing electronic monitors for people released from prisons and jails during the pandemic. The use of electronic monitoring violates social distancing, increases costs, misdirects resources, impacts access to healthcare, increases barriers to movement,...

How Data-Driven Learning is Changing Education

Type Article

Year 2014

Level State

State(s) All States, Georgia, Rhode Island, Texas

Source Government Technology

Policy Areas Data & Technology, Education

The implementation of data-driven learning in education, particularly through the use of aggregated historical datasets, can improve teachers' understanding of student needs and performance. Chief Innovation Offices can improve education policy outcomes by leveraging aggregated student...

Preventing Surveillance Cities: Developing a Set of Fundamental Privacy Provisions

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2019

Level City or Town, State

State(s) All States

Source Journal of Science Policy & Governance

Policy Areas Public Safety, Data & Technology

This report explores five privacy provisions to mitigate the harms associated with exploiting smart city-data. The policy proposals include differentiating personally identifiable smart city data from de-identified data, creating a warrant requirement for personally identifiable smart...

A Common Platform: Reimagining Data and Platforms

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2020

Level National

State(s) All States

Source The Democracy Collaborative

Policy Areas Democracy & Governance, Data & Technology

This report outlines the current political economy of platforms and data in the US and UK, as well as key policies, regulations, and legislation in the data and technology industry. It presents five foundational principles to guide a transformative agenda in platforms and data including,...

How Cities Can Get Smart: 6 Tips from Local CIOs

Type Article

Year 2018

Level City or Town

State(s) All States, Colorado

Source Smart Cities Dive

Policy Areas Data & Technology, Democracy & Governance

This report from a meeting of Chief Innovation Officers (CIOs) from across the country examines smart cities, what they are and how to become one. Participating CIOs emphasized the need to identify a clear return on investment for smart city projects and suggested that governments...

Payver Case Study Case Study: Plano, TX

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2023

Level City or Town

State(s) Texas

Source North Central Texas Council of Governments

Policy Areas Data & Technology, Democracy & Governance, Transportation & Mobility

A case study conducted by the City of Plano, Texas, comparing manual surveying to Artificial Intelligence Vision and crowdsourced dash camera footage and found that the latter approach provides results often equal to or better than manual surveys while costing 90% less. Roadway management...

Making the Case for Change: Using Data to Identify Community Needs and Spur Action

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2011

Level City or Town, County, City or Town

State(s) All States

Source Policy Matters Ohio

Policy Areas Democracy & Governance, Community Development, Economic Justice

Data helps policymakers, activists, and other stakeholders understand the needs of their neighborhoods, helping to ensure that their advocacy efforts are tailored to the real challenges of communities and not their assumed needs. This brief provides an introduction to using Census...

No More Shackles: Why We Must End the Use of Electronic Monitors for People on Parole

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2019

Level City or Town, County, State

State(s) All States

Source Media Justice

Policy Areas Data & Technology, Public Safety

This report calls for the elimination of the use of monitoring for individuals on parole. It argues that electronic monitoring is an extension of incarceration that is ineffective, expensive, and greatly limits the freedom and potential success of people on parole. Further, its expansion...

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