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Dave Biggs was the keynote speaker at the recent Utah League of Cities and Towns – 2019 Annual Convention in Salt Lake City. In Dave’s presentation, he shared tips and tricks on how to re-boot your community engagement strategies to build stronger public support. The session was recorded and is being processed. In the meantime, feel free to check out Dave’s presentation slides. ...
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At last month’s Gartner Symposium and ITxpo, Gartner explained why citizen engagement is critical to the success of smart cities. Making a city smart goes beyond optimizing traffic patterns and parking availability. Today, smart city planning is much less about technology and much more about people. "The way forward is a community-driven, bottom-up approach where citizens are an integral part of designing and developing smart cities,...
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With the importance of public engagement for transportation agencies, it’s reassuring to see the efforts that agencies are making to conduct meaningful research and share best practices and leading case studies. One of the most effective examples we’ve seen was conducted by the University of Illinois at Chicago’s Institute for Policy and Civic Engagement and culminated in a report report commissioned by the Illinois Department of...
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For local government agencies it can be a daunting task to keep track of the myriad of firms specializing in products and services to fulfill their needs. Engaging Local Government Leaders (ELGL) understand this challenge well. That’s why they conducted an extensive voting process to compile a ranking of the Top 50 Local Government Vendors. Agencies will find a terrific assortment of online tools, community engagement...
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This unique portal complements the more traditional public meetings in an effort to broaden public input by allowing the public to provide input online in only a few minutes. NCDOT selected MetroQuest in order to provide an interactive experience that would increase the level of public input to guide their planning process. “We are very excited to leverage MetroQuest to collect public input to inform our State...
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