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June 14, 2012
Practical Solutions for 21st Century Municipalities

In 2011, municipal, provincial and federal government reps from around the globe met for the first annual National Infrastructure Summit. It was the first event of its kind in which the private sector and all three orders of government participated and engaged in discussions and workshops about global best practices and new approaches. Topics ranged from funding to planning to building and maintaining infrastructure, encompassing roads, bridges, water, wastewater, sidewalks, and underground pipes. 

In 2011, municipal, provincial and federal government reps from around the globe met for the first annual National Infrastructure Summit. It was the first event of its kind in which the private sector and all three orders of government participated and engaged in discussions and workshops about global best practices and new approaches. Topics ranged from funding to planning to building and maintaining infrastructure, encompassing roads, bridges, water, wastewater, sidewalks, and underground pipes.

March 26, 2012
Technology And Participation Pay Dividends In Smaller Cities

Looking around on articles on the world’s smartest cities, we tend to celebrate the high-tech pioneers implementing large infrastructure or data projects. Smaller cities can play an important role in driving innovation in or near metropolitan areas of a major cities and creating new markets. Sant Cugat (population 80,000, near Barcelona) and Eindhoven (population 213,000, near Amsterdam) are good examples.

October 28, 2011
Fixing Broke(n) Governments through Serious Games

Governments around the world are all facing budget shortfalls, spending cuts and reduced services. All of us — ordinary citizens, elected officials and community leaders — know that we must make dramatic changes to solve these crises, and yet governments remain gridlocked. How do we move beyond this impasse? How do we create an approach to budgeting that is both participatory and scalable? The answer is serious games!

IAP2 NorCal Chapter Event

Governments around the world are all facing budget shortfalls, spending cuts and reduced services. All of us — ordinary citizens, elected officials and community leaders — know that we must make dramatic changes to solve these crises, and yet governments remain gridlocked. How do we move beyond this impasse? How do we create an approach to budgeting that is both participatory and scalable? The answer is serious games!

September 9, 2011
Crowd Accelerated Innovation

March 2, 2011
The Innovation Generation

New York City rang in the new year with a new internal innovation software platform.  A division of Spigit’s idea management platform, “Simplicity” is being adopted city-wide in a two-phase roll-out that will eventually include all 300,000 New York City employees.

New York City rang in the new year with a new internal innovation software platform.  A division of Spigit’s idea management platform, “Simplicity” is being adopted city-wide in a two-phase roll-out that will eventually include all 300,000 New York City employees.  The city hopes to harness the software to overcome communication barriers across its many departments, improve collaboration and generate innovative ideas from the people who know the inner workings of the city best.  

September 21, 2010
Cultivating Innovation

Here at Engaging Cities, we love to tout the possibilities that public participation and collaboration can provide for planning. With the goal of innovation in mind, how can we better stimulate the great minds of people collaborating to make great things happen?  As it turns out, some of the experts at the Harvard Business Review have a few suggestions.  First on their list is meeting people’s needs.