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City of Asheville named finalist in 2019 SuperNova Awards by Constellation Research
Posted on by Polly McDaniel

  ITS team recognized in Artificial Intelligence and Augmented Humanity Category for government meeting streaming translation project   The City of Asheville has been named a finalist in the ninth annual Constellation SuperNova Awards. As digital transformation evolves across industries and geographies, organizations must make deeper investments to create real impact. This prestigious program recognizes teams and leaders for their [...]

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U.S. Census Bureau is hiring for 2020
Posted on by Polly McDaniel

  From the U.S. Census: The U.S. Census Bureau continues to recruit thousands of workers for temporary jobs available nationwide in advance of the 2020 Census. The 2020 Census Jobs website allows applicants to apply for a range of positions, including recruiting assistants, office operations supervisors, clerks, census field supervisors, and census takers by completing a single [...]

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Asheville residents can find information about upcoming development with new online notification tool  
Posted on by Polly McDaniel

  In a time of development and growth, Asheville residents have asked how they can stay better informed about upcoming projects. We heard you and are pleased to roll out a new online tool residents can use to stay informed about upcoming development such as major subdivisions, apartment complexes, retail establishments and hotels. The site contains specific [...]

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City of Asheville earns GIS award for racial equity mapping project
Posted on by Polly McDaniel

      The City of Asheville was recently awarded the North Carolina G. Herbert Stout Award for Visionary Use of GIS in support of the City’s Mapping Racial Equity project.   Asheville was recognized during the 2019 N.C. GIS Conference in Winston-Salem. City Council officials received the award during their May [...]

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Asheville Police Department releases use of force data
Posted on by Polly McDaniel

    In a continuing effort to increase transparency and provide the community with access to data, the Asheville Police Department has worked in partnership with several community members to release use of force data online through the City of Asheville Open data Portal.   The data will include all records on/after Jan. 1, 2018. The data [...]

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Asheville Police release citizen complaint and 9-1-1 call data on Open Data Portal
Posted on by Polly McDaniel

  In a continuing effort to increase transparency and provide the community with access to data, the Asheville Police Department has worked in partnership with several community members to release citizen complaint and 9-1-1 call data online through the City of Asheville Open Data Portal.   APD Citizen Complaints: Data includes all complaints made on/after January [...]

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City of Asheville earns Amazon IT award
Posted on by Polly McDaniel

  Amazon Web Services recently recognized the City of Asheville as winner of its mid-sized cities Dream Big Award for its equity work, particularly related to using open data as a tool to help identify opportunities to contract with minority business owners.   The award was part of Amazon Web Services’ 2018 City on a Cloud Winners announced [...]

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What do you want to know, Asheville? Just ask newly upgraded SimpliCity 2.0 search tool
Posted on by Polly McDaniel

    From trash collection days to crime, from properties to neighborhoods, Asheville residents have been able to look up local data by address on SimpliCity since it launched in 2015.   Now, with SimpliCity 2.0, residents can access even more information, including integrated topic dashboards like the City budget and capital and bond projects, with many more to [...]

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Find more local information with launch of SimpliCity 2.0
Posted on by Polly McDaniel

What do you want to know, Asheville? From neighborhood information to the City budget, mine data on an updated version of the City’s searchable tool, SimpliCity.   First launched in 2015, this award-winning online tool provides useful information on city development, tax values, even trash and recycling pickup schedules.   What’s new with SimpliCity 2.0? Now it [...]

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City’s IT department unveils aerial maps documenting Asheville’s development
Posted on by Polly McDaniel

This 1951 aerial map shows an Asheville before interstates were built. The Asheville Through Time webpage tracks their development as well as other aspects of the city, such as deforestation.       An online tool recently developed by the City of Asheville shows how the city has grown and changed in the past 66 years.   The City of Asheville unveiled a [...]

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City of Asheville partners with Waze travel app to add official traffic information
Posted on by Polly McDaniel

The City of Asheville today announced a data-sharing partnership with Waze (www.waze.com), a free, real-time traffic and navigation app crowd-sourced by drivers.   On its free mobile phone app, Waze users help each other outsmart traffic, informing each other in real-time if there’s a wreck ahead, an upcoming construction zone or whether a road is [...]

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Asheville earns Municipal Innovator award for Open Data portal
Posted on by Polly McDaniel

The City of Asheville was named Municipal Innovator during this month’s North Carolina Digital Government Summit in Raleigh. The award recognizes the City’s updated open-data portal, data.ashevillenc.gov. The N.C. League of Municipalities nomination reads: “It (open-data portal) provides the public an array of useful, downloadable information, from crime locations to flood maps to demographics to a [...]

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