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Data-Informed Governance by Polyteia

Bureaucracy Becomes Democracy

Polyteia is a Berlin-based data analytics and visualization platform that allows city leaders to bring together and analyze the data that represents the constituents they serve.

Digital Democracy by Civocracy

From Civic Halls to the Internet

Berlin-based Civocracy is bringing democracy into the digital era by providing a space for digital collaboration between citizens, governments, businesses and other groups active in local communities.

Land Reclamation in Neuseenland

Coal Mine to Swimming Pool

When all the coal from a pit mine has been extracted, a moonscape remains. Both in the U.S. and Germany, the extraction companies are responsible for reclaiming the landscape. For environmental and ethical reasons many reclamation projects are criticized. In Germany’s Neuseenland, the effort can largely be praised.

Migration to New Email Service

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Aerofarms

The World’s Largest Indoor, Vertical Farm

As urban populations continue to grow so does concern about how to feed them. Global warming only exacerbates fears. Heat and water stress, extreme weather and unpredictable seasons threaten food production. In response, urban agriculturists are innovating. One solution: vertical farms.

Hester Street

People-Focused City Building

When speaking of urban planning, many think of policymakers, architects and engineers. Hester Street, a nonprofit based is New York City, thinks of people. Their goal is to recenter urban planning, design and development on communities and residents, the people and places for which cities are built.

Schools and Universities Cautiously Reopen

The Challenges of Learning and the Pandemic

The struggles surrounding education and COVID-19 have been two-fold: first, schools and universities struggled to rapidly digitize education; now the same institutions are reckoning with how to safely reopen.