“Urban tech” and \"smart cities\" technologies are changing how residents engage city services and move through public space. The people building the technology should be as diverse as residents themselves. How can we use city government procurement rules & policies to make that happen?

The Center for Urban Innovation wants your help in answering two important questions: What can city governments do right now to increase the number of “smart cities” or “civic tech” or “urban tech” procurements awarded to companies led by women and people of color?

By “smart cities”/ “civic tech”/ “urban tech,” we mean technologies or
applications that address core aspects of city life or service delivery and that
probably didn’t exist five or ten years ago.

What places or institutions seem to be doing this well, and have lessons to share?

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We’re asking people from different sectors to share their
ideas and proposed solutions to help us solve problems in urban tech procurement. We have purposely asked broad questions to get an array of answers. Your answers can be as short or long as you wish, and you may put multiple ideas in a single response.

We're asking some registration questions, too, which will help us see if people with different professional or demographic experiences lead to wildly different ideas about solutions, or if there are interesting commonalities. The registration information is optional and will only be visible to the administrators. The site will generate a username for you automatically if you choose not to register.

You'll have to return to the landing page to answer the next question: the site will not automatically take you from one question to the next.

Once you’ve answered, please share this link with others in
your network who could provide additional insights.

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