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Here are the 20 speed cameras on Staten Island that issue the most tickets Updated Jan 06, 2021; Posted Jan 06, 2021 Staten Island speed cameras issued over 150,000 violations from late June through the end of November, according to city data. (Staten Island Advance/Erik Bascome) Facebook Share But some speed cameras seem to be catching more drivers than others. With Mayor Bill de Blasio currently pushing the state legislature to expand the city’s speed camera program to operate seven days ...

The Northwood Ward councillor is proud of what she was able to accomplish in 2020. Shelby Ch’ng says despite the COVID-19 pandemic, she was able to champion a number of ventures. Those include the rainbow and transgender pride flag crosswalks in the Bay and Algoma Neighbourhood, and the rainbow crosswalk outside City Hall. “The width of the crosswalk didn’t necessarily match the length of the piece that we needed, so more colour was added,” says Ch’ng, when discussing the hiccups with...

Government Executive email We may be entering a Golden Age of data sharing. Senior Fellow, IBM Center for the Business of Government There were quiet celebrations a year ago as the long-awaited Federal Data Strategy and a 2020 action plan came to fruition. It involved hundreds of dedicated people across the government and the action plan covered 20 specific elements. But the federal data strategy is just a foundation for a potentially broader vision. A new report on the critical need fo...

The challenges for eLogistics that 2020 left in LATAM While the pandemic halted some business operations, e-commerce soared in amounts unthinkable before 2020, representing a great opportunity for electronic logistics. Stay informed and join our daily newsletter now! Email December 22, 2020 4 min read This article was translated from our Spanish edition using AI technologies. Errors may exist due to this process. The big theme of 2020 was, without a doubt...

Covid-19 has required people and organisations across the world to embrace digital faster than ever. Cork City Council have had a ‘Digital Media Officer’ since December 2019, now the Local Authority has unveiled an ambitious 62-page ‘Digital Strategy’ An online citizen services portal, smart energy home testbed and extension of Cork city’s free public Wi-Fi offering are all actions contained in Cork city’s first digital strategy. Published today, 17th December 2020, Cork city’s d...

Report shows slow progress on sex-disaggregated data A group of women wearing saris in India. A new report highlights the limited availability of sex-disaggregated information related to COVID-19 and other societal issues. Copyright: Suffix(Public domain). Speed read Indexes suggest that such data is not gathered in the first place General open data publication is making huge strides globally Share this article: Republish We encourage you to republish this article online and in print, it’s ...

Why It’s Time to Get Serious About Intergovernmental Data Sharing The continuing problems with COVID-19 data illustrate why we need to do a better job. Initiatives by some states and local governments are showing how to make that happen and derive greater value. John M. Kamensky, IBM Center for the Business of Government   |   December 16, 2020   |  Opinion New York Times op-ed, performance-data pioneer Beth Blauer and epidemiologist Jenn...

How do you use technology/policy to improve citizens’ lives? Tell us about your role or organisation. I currently work as a Project Officer at Jabar Digital Service, a West Java gubernatorial digital service unit under the West Java Communications and Informatics Agency in West Java Province. Jabar Digital Service aims to narrow the province’s digital divide, support a data-driven decision-making process, and revolutionize governance as well as improve citizens’ quality of life through te...

Complaints of missed garbage and recycling pickups have declined to levels slightly lower than they were before the city-parish lambasted its garbage contractor last year over shoddy residential service.  According to Open Data BR, the online platform where the city-parish makes some data available to the public, residential complaints are down about 41% compared to what they were in 2019. And calls about missed recycling service have fallen by nearly 80%, according to Open Data BR.  Befo...

Most countries in the world are not publishing data disaggregated by sex, thereby putting a strain on efforts to improve gender equality, according to the latest Open Data Inventory.