Happy National Public Works Week! In honor of the workers who provide essential services in our communities, here are seven fascinating facts about public works. 1. The first electric street lamps were used in Paris...

Making long-term plans while also managing day-to-day operations is hard. There’s always something competing for your time. By collecting relevant data along the way, you can help make strategic planning easier. The City of Topeka...

The City of Fayetteville provides services to over 200,000 residents throughout the area. Located in the southern region of the state, the city of Fayetteville neighbors the renowned Fort Bragg US Army Base. With a...

via Alliance for Innovation The City of Ann Arbor has always been driven to listen to its citizens. This drive is shown in the City’s continual efforts to deploy and develop cutting edge technological solutions...

Cityworks believes in staying actively involved with their clients, relying on their experience and expertise to help them know how best to improve their product. Just as Cityworks relies on its clients to give useful...

via Financial Times. The annoyances of urban life are familiar to any city dweller: rubbish, unlit street lamps, potholes, graffiti. Cleaning up such eyesores has become the basis for an entire trend in policing –...

  Live City of Oakland Problem Map via SeeClickFix (The City of Oakland uses Cityworks to manage service requests generated from SeeClickFix) When the city of Oakland launched SeeClickFix in February, most issue reports to...

Is there a street light out in your neighborhood or a pothole that needs fixing? Now you can report that problem to the City of Coon Rapids by using your smart phone or computer. By...

In fall 2007, New Haven, Conn., resident Ben Berkowitz wasn’t satisfied. Berkowitz saw problems in his neighborhood, but he was frustrated with the customer service experience when he contacted the city. “There was graffiti on...

Providing a social platform for exchanging information with local governments, SeeClickFix offers Cityworks technology through a mobile app for iPhone, Blackberry, and Android. The idea is to encourage active citizenship by enabling citizens to report...