City Tech Fall 2021 Update
City Tech Collaborative is thrilled to announce two new, independent organizations
focused on civic infrastructure innovation
and community health and wellness
, as well as an open-source toolkit
to support and scale direct resident engagement
in urban innovation.
Following the successful launch of these efforts, City Tech will close its doors.
Our team has deeply appreciated your partnership and dedication to making cities better places to live, work, and play. We are excited to embark on new efforts to address evolving community, industry, and municipal needs, and we encourage you to learn more by exploring the links below.
The new organizations, Civic Infrastructure Collaborative
and Sustainable Wellness through Innovation, Technology, & Collaborative Health (SWITCH)
, will address urban infrastructure and community health, respectively. Later this year, City Tech will also publish tools related to its resident engagement program, the Civic User Testing group (CUTgroup)
.
Since its founding in 2015, City Tech has completed over 30 projects and solution development collaborations
to make cities happier, healthier, and more productive. With an ecosystem of more than 100 corporate, municipal, civic, and philanthropic partners
, City Tech has played a critical role in advancing practical, tech-enabled products and services.
Warm regards,
City Tech Collaborative
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Civic Infrastructure Collaborative:
Driving Public Value from Urban Infrastructure
The new Civic Infrastructure Collaborative
is an independent nonprofit organization that that will bring together physical, digital, and social assets to help cities thrive. Its mission is to drive public value from core urban infrastructure through cross-sector collaboration and technology-enabled innovation. Civic Infrastructure Collaborative will work with asset owners, operators, technology providers, public officials, and residents to develop and implement place-based infrastructure solutions. The organization will harness important trends like digitization, connectivity, urban systems integration, and adaptive reuse to identify new roles that urban infrastructure assets can play and new sources of value for the communities they serve. Millennium Garages – a publicly owned and privately operated facility spanning 3.8 million square feet in downtown Chicago – will serve as an anchor facility for the organization’s initial projects. Read more.
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SWITCH: Broadening Health Equity in Chicago
SWITCH, which stands for Sustainable Wellness through Innovation, Technology, & Collaborative Health, is a collaboration platform that accelerates, innovates, and scales tech-enabled solutions for healthcare challenges. SWITCH will bring together skilled partners as well as engage residents and healthcare patients to ensure they have an active voice in solution creation. In addition, SWITCH will utilize a robust and proprietary racial equity and inclusion (REI) methodology to address inherent bias in existing solution development processes. The organization’s first solution will leverage OSF HealthCare’s existing CommunityConnect software and expand the program to non-OSF clinics and community-based organizations to serve Medicaid patients, as well as integrate SWITCH’s racial equity and inclusion tool into the application’s care plan development. Read more.
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City Tech Open Sources CUTgroup Tools and Resources
City Tech's Civic User Testing group (CUTgroup) is a 1,600-member civic engagement program that invites Chicago residents to contribute to emerging technology while providing public, private, and social sector partners with feedback to improve product design and deployment. City Tech is engaging with key stakeholders and developing a toolkit to support and scale direct resident engagement in urban innovation. Building on existing best practices and the CUTgroup approach, City Tech will make these tools available on open-source platforms by the end of 2021. Keep an eye on our website for updates. Read more.
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October 19-21: Microsoft Research Summit
Meera Raja joins the Microsoft Research Summit to discuss the role of resident engagement in Microsoft Project Eclipse, a public-facing air quality sensing platform. Streaming virtually, you’ll hear from science and tech leaders from around the world who are driving advances to make a meaningful impact on humanity.
Register here.
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October 26-28: City Tech Joins Reuters Mobility 2021
Join Brenna Berman, David Leopold, and Jamie Ponce as they present at Mobility 2021, the flagship meeting for executive leadership across government, transit, energy, and mobility and technology platforms.
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