Points of light (cc) by James Marvin Phelps.
Last week I attended the Points of Light National Conference on Volunteering and Service. Aptly named “Service Unites,” it gathered more than 5,000 leaders from the nonprofit, corporate and civic sectors to learn and help shape the future of volunteerism. These changemakers from across the country were examining how to put civic engagement […]
Rockstar Games typically steers well clear of E3, but it did choose to make a big announcement to coincide with the event this year – the reveal of the much-anticipated next-gen version of Grand Theft Auto 5, coming to PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC in the autumn. Clocking in at just over a minute, the trailer takes us through […]
BERKELEY Paul Waddell, a city planning professor at the University of California, Berkeley, with a penchant for conducting research with what he calls his “big urban data,” is putting his work to a real-world test in San Francisco.His high-tech startup “Synthicity” has been chosen from a field of nearly 200 applicants as one of San Francisco’s six new […]
Rochester, Minnesota (pop. 109,000) is a small city perhaps best known as the home of the Mayo Clinic.But that doesn’t mean the town’s police department is not busy–and connected. Last year the Rochester Police Department (RPD) decided to build an app to keep its officers’ 160 work smartphones connected and in communication when on the job. Like other tech-savvy departments, […]
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