Govlaunch Podcast
From the Wiki for local government innovation, the Govlaunch podcast shares the stories of local government innovators and their efforts to build better governments. Through conversations with cities and towns around the world, each episode explores creative solutions to the challenges communities face, and what local governments can learn from each other’s successes and failures. Visit govlaunch.com for more stories and examples of local government innovation.
Episodes
On this episode, Devta Kidd, Innovation Director for Bloomington, Indiana joins me to talk about low budget, impactful innovation that any local government can try. We'll talk about cross-departmental buy-in strategies for engaging the community and what questions we should be asking as we progress through a project lifecycle to ensure innovation remains at the center.
Featured government: City of Bloomington, Indiana
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The legal division is often assumed to be slow and archaic, even a barrier to innovation. In the City of Hamilton's case, this couldn't be further from the truth. The division has created model policies around some big disruptors, such as the sharing economy, that are now being replicated around the world.
Featured government: City of Hamilton, Canada
Episode Guests:
Monica Ciriello – Director Municipal Law and Licensing
Back in 2019, the city of Montréal was a successful bidder of the Canadian government Smart Cities Challenge. This allowed Montreal to kick off a multi-year multi-project effort to tackle everything from food security to mobility.
Featured government: Montréal, Canada
Episode Guests:
Aldo Rizzi, Program Director – Smart City Innovation Program chez Ville de Montréal
Patrick Lozeau, Advisor in charge of data projects for Montreal in Co...
With police forces in many local governments coming under major scrutiny, we'll hear how one government is looking at risk management, crisis management, internal audit, and ultimately ways to improve resiliency to drive impactful and equitable policing.
Featured government: Paris, France
Episode Guest: Inès Boubaker, Risk Manager, Paris City Hall
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Olivia dives into what this new tech is and what roles local government practitioners can play in these emerging spaces.
Episode Guests:
Dani Pico, Director of Community at Forum
Dani is a long time start-up operator focused on the education and innovation sectors. Currently, Dani is the Director of Community at Forum Ventures, an early stage fund and accelerator program focused on B2B SaaS.
Zachary Habayeb
Digital inclusion work is progressing in Detroit, and citizen-centered projects, and an understanding of their experience has been a major component of the city's success to date. Towards their goal of providing sustainable broadband access to residents via an automatic open access fiber network, Autumn and her team are finding creative ways to talk to residents and get their buy-in.
Featured government: City of Detroit, MI
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This discussion accompanies our new report: Innovation in Public Finance, which is now available at sapconcur.govlaunch.com. The guide features dozens of local government success stories and is made possible in part by SAP Concur, a company that's helping government teams around the world automate spending processes so they can run more efficiently.
Govlaunch is joined by a tremendous panel, including Hughey Newsom, Chief Finan...
Siddy Holloway's work is centered around getting the public engaged in mobility through various forms of creative storytelling. With London being home to the world’s oldest underground transit network there is a lot of history and knowledge to reveal. Learn more about how London is sharing its public transit stories and how you may be able to engage with your community on the topic of mobility.
Featured government: Transport fo...
Govlaunch co-founder James Alfano and Michael Pegues from Aurora, Illinois discuss the importance of cultivating public-private partnerships, seeing through the smart city hype, and tips for a strong foundation upon which is smart city or connected community can be built.
Featured government: City of Aurora, IL
Episode guests: Michael Pegues, Chief Information Officer at the City of Aurora
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Tanya joins the Govlaunch Podcast to share her story and to encourage other public sector leaders to think about ways that they can be cloud first, mobile first, and to incorporate omnichannel engagement and strategies for meeting the public wherever they're at 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
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Featured government: King County, Washington, USA
Episode guests: Tanya Hannah, Director and Chief Information Officer
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As countries focus their efforts on reducing their impact on the environment and cutting back their emissions, cities are an integral part of the solution. Olivia and Caroline dive into what cities are doing and what's still left to be done.
Episode guests: Caroline Brouillette, National Policy Manager for Climate Action Network Canada.
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Kate Bender, Chief Analytics Officer for Kansas City, MO joins the Govlaunch podcast to talk about staff engagement, an increasingly important and timely topic as organizations navigate a return to work and high turnover. We'll learn how survey tools and data is helping drive internal culture change and promote retention.
Featured government: City of Kansas City, Missouri
Episode guests: Kate Bender, Chief Analytics Officer for ...
In this episode, Olivia's joined by Jeanne Holm, deputy mayor for the city of LA who's tasked with leading both the innovation and budget portfolios. As a notable figure in the data science space, she's currently leveraging data truths to debunk misconceptions in complex policy areas, such as homelessness. Jeanne has a unique public sector perspective of having gone from her role at NASA to local government.
Featured gov...
Olivia sits down with City of Toronto's Manager of Circular Economy and Innovation, Meaghan Davis. Toronto has been fostering a circular approach to many facets of its operations and as cities across the globe pay increasing attention to how their services either harm or help the environment, going for circularity is key. Olivia and Meaghan dive into Toronto's bold vision for a sustainable future, and how you may be able to...
Social innovations are social practices created with the goal of extending and strengthening civil society. Montréal's action plan aims to encourage innovative initiatives that have a beneficial effect on the community by supporting social economy enterprises (mutuals and cooperatives), NPOs, and private entrepreneurship with a social purpose.
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Featured government: Ville de Montréal, Canada
Episode guests: Cecile Vergier...
The Chief Data Officer for the City of Paterson in New Jersey joins the Govlaunch podcast. Paterson, like many cities across the globe, is looking to improve equity and outcomes for those historically marginalized. They've partnered with Bloomberg Cities on a variety of projects ranging from license restoration to a guaranteed income pilot. So let's get into these and how your local government may be able to explore similar...
Dr. Jonathan Reichental is the founder of human future, which is a global business and technology advisory investment and education firm. Former CIO for the city of Palo Alto in California and is also the bestselling author of Smart Cities for Dummies.
Reichental co-authored an activity book for kids with Brett Hoffstadt, Exploring Smart Cities Activity Book for Kids, which can be also purchased here.
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Episode guests: Dr. J...
Dr. Jonathan Reichental is the founder of human future, which is a global business and technology advisory investment and education firm. Former CIO for the city of Palo Alto in California and is also the bestselling author of Smart Cities for Dummies.
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Episode guests: Dr. Jonathan Reichental
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Dr. Jonathan Reichental is the founder of human future, which is a global business and technology advisory investment and education firm. Former CIO for the city of Palo Alto in California and is also the bestselling author of Smart Cities for Dummies.
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Episode guests: Dr. Jonathan Reichental
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When in crisis mode, structure and chain of command is paramount. However, innovation is not just nice to have in these moments...It's a necessity. Toronto's Fire Chief Matthew Pegg shares some leadership advice and tips for maintaining calm and driving innovation in times of crisis.
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Featured government: Toronto, ON Canada
Episode guests: Matthew Pegg, Fire Chief, General Manager of Emergency Management, and COVID-...
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