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Building Civic Trust Through Civic Tech

GovLoop

When well-designed, it improves constituent experiences (CX) and promotes equity and engagement. A new term to some, “civic tech” relates to technology that directly facilitates CX, constituent experience or communication. Civic tech makes it easier for people to interact with government agencies.

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning: Part Eight | Civic Engagement and Positive Promotion of Democracy

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Parks agencies can engage citizens as programming providers, community experts, and volunteers, by creating parks and recreation committees and systems for developing and offering program for each facility. But often planning engagements are constrained in terms of knowledge development and the ability to truly participate.

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How to Effectively Plan Your Public Involvement Initiative for Transport

Social Pinpoint

Learn how you can also create positive project outcomes with your online community engagement platform of choice. The first installment will focus on effectively planning a public involvement initiative. DCTA needed a flexible suite of community engagement tools to carry this off in a short amount of time.

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How artificial intelligence can aid urban development

Open Access Government - Technology News

Artificial intelligence can be a game-changer in the mission of modernizing urban development, especially when it comes to transportation infrastructure Planning and maintaining communities in the modern world is as simple as threading a needle with an elephant.

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National Volunteer Week: April 16th-22nd

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

It’s good business' " One of the many regrets I have is not getting a PhD in planning. My intended thesis was around urban planning and civic participation and engagement, because local land use issues are the issue most likely to get people involved in local civic affairs, other than having children and being involved in education issues.

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What is the competitive advantage for the post-covid city? Doubling down on place values

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Districts are adept at outbound communications but have struggled to manage inbound messages as communications channels expanded beyond phone calls and mail to include texts and emails that can be sent around the clock, the report said. It's the whole talent and knowledge versus regimentation thing. Flickr photo by Chiara Coetzee.

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Metrics for measuring the health of rivers, lakes, and oceans in your community

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Many communities are engaged in waterfront revitalization, but this becomes problematic with the effect of climate change, sea level rise, tides, etc. Rivers are the primary source of drinking water to most communities in the United States. Waterfront revitalization. Drinking water.