City Tech Summer 2020 Update

When City Tech’s Spring Update dropped in April, the U.S. had just reached 500,000 COVID-19 cases, the Class of 2020 still clung to hopes of walking across the graduation stage, and George Floyd was alive and breathing. Three months later, many U.S. states are facing increasing COVID-19 cases while trying to restart their economies, colleges and universities are struggling to define what education will look like this Fall, and George Floyd’s murder has sparked near-daily protests across the globe crying out for justice and racial equity. Our world continues to shift under our feet.
 
In this time of uncertainty and unrest, City Tech continues to tackle problems too big for any single sector or organization to solve alone. We are not seeking ways to go back to normal  – we are persevering through compounded crises, charting new innovation opportunities, and helping cities and their residents get to better-than-before.
 
Please read on to learn how City Tech and our partners are responding to these unprecedented times:

• We are expanding the Chicago Health Atlas to feature COVID-19 data and resources through a partnership with HERE Technologies. 
   
• We are scaling solutions that address urban heat islands , public transit accessibility , and congestion from delivery vehicles. 
   
• We are building new solutions to enable social distancing in indoor and outdoor spaces as well as on transit.
   
• We are presenting events that explore COVID-19's impact on innovation , the parking industry , and our streets.
   
• We are rethinking the data standards  and the technology foundation  needed to enable new parking services and real estate uses through the Millennium Gateway Innovation Lab.
   
• We are welcoming Intel, Smarking, and Verizon as the newest members of City Tech’s cross-sector consortium with unique perspectives and capabilities.