Measure intends to ensure responsible use of generative AI tools as they become more prolific and offer additional opportunities to support government services.
The FreeBmoreWiFi network will be available at a number of recreational centres at the beginning of 2024 with plans to expand its reach across the city.
The City’s Digital Inclusion Strategy incorporates four actionable goals to help anchor the city’s activities and investments in the digital ecosystem.
Through a grant from the State of Maryland’s Connected Devices programme, Baltimore City received the 30,000 Chromebooks to distribute to low-income households.
The StoryMap site, which uses GIS mapping tools, is the latest effort to use data tools to drive decision-making and make improvements to city services.
The 2c2i programme is making hundreds of thousands of dollars available to startups to pursue inventive climate solutions in the Baltimore region and beyond.
The site enables citizens to track progress on the #BuildBetterBMore initiative and is the City’s latest effort to use data tools to drive decision-making.
The Public Safety Accountability Dashboard aims to increase transparency and allow the public to hold agencies accountable for executing agreed upon strategies.
The tool will help the City to flag buildings for possible emergency demolition and provide advance warning to first responders about dangerous structures.
Baltimore Gas and Electric is working with the smart city specialist to connect and manage 260,000 smart streetlights across the utility’s service territory.
Morgan State University is partnering with the technology provider to become a smart and connected campus focused on energy efficiency and investments in clean and renewable solutions.
With limited public transportation a well-known barrier to employment in some parts of the US city, the programme offers free rides for four weeks until a resident receives their first paycheck.
The goal will lay out a path for the City to reach carbon-neutrality and provide a framework for reducing emissions, helping avoid some of the worst impacts of climate change.
Bloomberg Philanthropies’ certification celebrates US local governments that are leading the nation in the use of data and evidence to improve services, create operational efficiencies, and engage residents.
The mayor’s view is that broadband should be treated as “essential public infrastructure” that is managed and maintained for the benefit of all residents.
Mayor Brandon Scott said lack of access to technology for remote work, learning and telehealth undermines the potential of the city’s communities and the pandemic may have exacerbated these problems.
The selected cities will receive $50,000 to work with local community partners to transform streets into community assets that aid in the Covid-19 pandemic recovery.
The cities chosen are considered to have come up with the boldest urban innovations emerging from the pandemic with the challenge aiming to spread the most promising ideas.
The Baltimore Health Corps launched in June 2020 as a way to recruit, train, and employ 275 new community health workers who were unemployed, furloughed, or underemployed.
Platform allows cities to identify temporary or permanent street policies, communicate them to the general public, and digitally provide up-to-date information to key mobility stakeholders.
Aspen, Nashville, Omaha, and West Palm Beach will team with kerb management company Coord on “smart zone” programmes tailored to their individual mobility challenges.
More than 300 residents who are currently jobless are being recruited to help address the city’s interconnected economic and public health crisis resulting from the coronavirus pandemic.
The Capitol and SCM partnership will utilise SCM’s Citypost platform to help public health officials conduct outreach about testing sites and deliver other real-time information related to the pandemic.
Emsisoft’s latest report reveals that 621 government entities, healthcare service providers, school districts, colleges and universities in the US have been affected by ransomware this year.
As research finds ransomware attacks against governments on the rise, the US Conference of Mayors has passed a resolution calling on cities not to pay assailants after cyber-attacks.
City council president wants the federal government to have a larger supporting role in helping the city recover from the attack that disabled computer systems and key citizen services.
John Hopkins University in Baltimore is launching the Centres for Civic Impact which will help public organisations to use data and research to improve public life.
The US Smart Cities Council said trends this year include a focus on regional collaboration and two finalists are trying to give their communities a second life.
