Water networks are confronted with aging infrastructure, increased urban population, and climate change. The City of Greater Sudbury has collaborated with CANN Forecast to implement InteliPipes, an AI-based decision-support system that leverages various data sources to improve the overall reliability of its water network. With it the City can (a) understand better the network’s degradation over time, (b) tailor inspection plans and replacement programmes, and (c) optimise watermains…
Innovation Tag: Digital and Technology Transformation
The Unique Scholarship Portal (Portal Único de Becas “Beca tu Futuro”) is a web platform that aims to concentrate all scholarship opportunities in a single portal. In this way, it documents and manages everything from the publication of the call for applications to the awarding of scholarships. The portal benefits all the citizens of the Dominican Republic who wish to apply for a scholarship. Moreover, the portal serves as a management tool for the scholarships' evaluators and the…
Singapore's Government developed OpenAttestation, an open-source framework to support endorsement and verification of documents using the blockchain. With this, an easy and reliable way to issue and validate tamper-proof certificates is readily available to the Government as well as any adopters locally or internationally.
Prioritization of projects and initiatives is often challenging and traditionally requires significant investment in administrative time and effort. The Town of Aurora has created a process that automates the prioritization of projects through an algorithm that scores projects based on Service Improvement, Financial Viability, Reputation Improvement and Ease of Implementation.
Cariocas Programmers (Programadores Cariocas) is an initative developed by the Rio de Janeiro City Hall (Prefeitura da Cidade do Rio de Janeiro) based on a study that found that there is a deficit of 24,000 vacancies per year in the technology sector. Thus, the initiative aims to train and qualify young people from marginalised backgrounds (in particular refugees, black, women and transgender people) in the area of programming.
The municipality of Florianópolis and TopMed have innovated health care with the creation of Hello Health Floripa (Alô Saúde Floripa). The service is designed to fulfil the principle of universality, guaranteeing access to healthcare for 100% of the population. Using digital channels (phone or app), it connects any citizen to a health professional, 24 hours a day, without need of travelling. The innovation also organises access to health, generates savings and balance for public health. The…
Citizens travelling on federal highways do not have fast and reliable internet access in the vicinity of the operational and administrative units of the Federal Highway Police. In many regions of Brazil, the 3G/4G internet signal is practically null, and the units of the Federal Highway Police are, in some cases, the only point with access to the world wide web. Through this project, the Government expanded free internet access for citizens in these areas by authentication via the gov.br…
Being a densely populated country with inadequate healthcare infrastructure, providing treatment to COVID patients and keeping them in the hospital while maintaining social distance to prevent rapid community level transmission proved to be a difficult task. Therefore, COVID-19 Telehealth Center was established to ensure healthcare for COVID positive patients from their home, just a call away.
Explore.Porto challenges citizens and visitors to discover and explore the city. The service is provided through a digital platform, anchored in beacons placed in strategic points in Porto. Anyone equipped with a smartphone can instantly obtain information about where they are and their surroundings, as well as the best way to get around. This user-centered innovation has proven its impact on the adoption of local services by both citizens and visitors.
With a view to achieving the vision for a paperless environment, the MoKloud platform provides storage space for every citizen for the safekeeping of personal official documents in a digitally secured format bearing a QR code and digital signature, as may be required. Currently, MoKloud hosts birth and marriage certificate extracts, digital vaccination passes, certificates of electricity supply and e-payslips. MoKloud documents are shared by an API or scanned for verification.