Government Technology

The county is building the $15 million water treatment plant to treat drinking water from Basin Creek Reservoir.

Experts offer advice on how civic tech firms, entrepreneurs and nonprofits — who are are pushing state and local governments to open up more datasets based on national standards — can best use the data they seek.

This new system will provide the State with efficient procurement and contract management tools that include vendor management services.

Imagine if a baseball player practiced his swing all day long but never threw or caught a ball. That’s what you’ve got in the Air Force.

"It’s important to me that we build a culture around our children that teaches them that their lives are directly impacted by the decisions our government makes," Secretary McCulloch said. "Their voices matter and their voices are heard through the election process and through civic engagement."

The city now uses survey data to help set priorities and provide the "citizen’s perspective" on a range of issues, and measure the impact of new processes.

The new system would ensure that a project done by the city’s Public Works and Natural Resources department is taking the effects on the environment, the economy and the community into consideration.

A common theme running through Edmonton’s activities is constant striving to integrate as broad an array of individuals into the community’s civic life as possible.

"You mail a letter in Helena," said Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.), who attended Tuesday’s meeting, "and it really has to go 90 miles out of the way to get to a destination a few blocks away. It gets to be a death spiral."

Thoreau said our lives are frittered away by detail, and someone in Texas was listening.