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Welcome to Data-Smart City Solutions

The top 25 programs among this year’s applicants for Innovations in American Government Awards were announced today, and among them are many that are embracing the kinds of technology-enabled creativity that our new Harvard Kennedy School initiative, Data-Smart City Solutions, stands behind. Crowdsourcing, data collection and analytics, and smart infrastructure, in particular, cropped up multiple times as ways to help a variety of government bodies better serve citizens.

Many of these innovations harness the sheer manpower of the civic-minded public or gather the insights and out-of-the-box thinking that often resides within citizens or in unexpected corners of organizational hierarchies. For instance, the National Archives and Records Administration’s Citizen Archivist Dashboard initiative allows citizens to contribute their time by tagging and transcribing archived materials or by contributing their knowledge to historical articles. Through diffused community engagement, the National Archives hopes to increase the volume of work it can do in partnership with interested citizens–especially important in these times of falling federal budgets.

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