Data-Smart City Solutions

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Highlighting cities solving problems and engaging communities with data. Directed by Stephen Goldsmith @goldsmithongov.bsky.social at the Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University. Listen: #DataSmartCityPod https://datasmart.hks.harvard.edu/

Seattle skyline at night with "How Seattle Built a Benefits Portal to Share Benefits Widely" written across
Khahlil headshot with quote: We found that communities or neighborhoods that are highly engaged with government, had a higher reporting rate with 311. Governments typically allocated greater resources, a greater share of resources, to those neighborhood vs. neighborhoods that were lower income...
Daniel quote: Someone with natural language could say, ‘Show me the dangerous intersections, based on our prior data that's in our dataset, with faded pavement markings and high traffic.’
Title of the paper "AI and the Transformation of Accountability and Discretion in Urban Governance" with a photo of authors Pr. Stephen Goldsmith and Juncheng "Tony" Yang.
Welcome text (repeated in post) with a picture of Teryn Zmuda, a woman with dark hair in a white blazer.
A slideshow of topics we wrote and podcast about this past year, including addressing homelessness, supporting child development, artificial intelligence, and more!