(Getty Images) Chattanooga’s ‘Smart Corridor+’ to feed researchers street-level data The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga received a $1.37 million grant from the National Science Foundation to build an online portal for smart city researchers to study… Aug 2, 2021 By Ryan Johnston
NYU Jacobs Academic Building (GK Tramrunner / Wikimedia) NYU data lab launches incubator for city data projects "City Incubator" at NYU's Open Data Policy Lab promises to help 10 local government technology officials from around the world develop their projects. Aug 2, 2021 By Ryan Johnston
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan visits a vaccination clinic at Baltimore’s M&T Bank Stadium in May 2021. (Saul Loeb/AFP / Getty Images) Maryland will hire data and privacy officers, Gov. Hogan says Gov. Larry Hogan also said the state will get guidance on data security from a "senior-level" National Security Agency analyst. Aug 2, 2021 By Benjamin Freed
Urban innovation requires us to imagine a world that doesn’t yet exist We’re building for a future urban world that is speculative and likely full of unanticipated surprises. Aug 2, 2021 By Jonathan Reichental
(Getty Images) Memphis, Tenn., fostered data culture through competition, mayor says Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland said monthly meetings that publicized agency figures pushed city leaders to embrace data and improve their numbers. Aug 2, 2021 By Ryan Johnston