Smart-cities and e-governments: innovative projects and technologies to inspire cities and governments around the world.
At Connectikpeople.co, we deeply encourage governments and public institutions to use innovative IT, digital and computing solutions to implement sustainable development and improve working and living conditions.
Innovative projects , services and technologies
include:
- Louisville Metro Data Initiatives (Kentucky, US) – With a focus on open data and data-driven performance, the Louisville Metro Government created a series of custom sites hosted on AWS. The sites are designed to provide citizens with meaningful insights into government priorities and actions, along with the opportunity to review, analyze, and comment on government actions and processes.
- King County (Washington, US) – This county has replaced a costly and expensive tape-powered backup and disaster recovery system with a modern, cloud-powered system that combines physical and virtual cloud-powered storage appliances with Amazon Glacier and S3, with a projected savings of $1 million in the first year, and $200K thereafter.
- South Central Development and Planning Commission (Louisiana, US) -This county created MyGovernmentOnline. This site provides cloud-powered, location-oriented tracking of assets owned by government agencies of any size.
- City of Chicago (Illinois, US) – The city created OpenGrid, an open source information system that supports real-time monitoring and retrieval of historical data sources.
- City of Marquette (Michigan, US) – The proposed CemeteryHost application will allow users to quickly and easy locate graves in Marquette’s historic Park Cemetery.
- Seamless Docs (US) : A quick route to a paperless government, with conversion of existing forms and PDFs to online versions, including support for electronic signatures.
- Quicket Solutions (US) : Cloud-based solutions for law enforcement to increase officer safety, boost patrol officer productivity, and increase public convenience.
- Vizalytics Technology (US) :On-the-go insights for local businesses, residents, and government agencies, powered by real-time data sets from cities, states, and local governments.
- GrupoTX (Colombia) – Improvements to government processes which lead to a better relationship between the citizens and the government.
- DataCats (Canada) – An open source project that trivializes the creation of open data infrastructure for states, regional, and local governments.
- ViewScan (Panama) – A web application that integrates GIS and transactional information to help citizens and government track urban changes, local businesses, transportation, public services, traffic, and environmental landmarks.
- Park Smart (Italy) – A platform that provides real-time visibility into the availability of parking spaces in monitored areas.
