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.
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- Update frequency
- every 10 days
- Average duration
- 28 minutes
- Episodes
- 78
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2023
Playful Engagement Part 2 of 2: D.C. Office of Planning and American University's Playful Cities Lab return to share projects in the works and how to leverage play in your local gov
Citizen engagement is top of mind for many local governments. And it should be. Local governments continue to grapple with communications strategies around COVID and the vaccine, are working with tig…
Playful Engagement Part 1 of 2: D.C. Office of Planning and American University's Playful Cities Lab team up to share how playfulness is the key to building the engaging cities of tomorrow
Citizen engagement is top of mind for many local governments. And it should be. Local governments continue to grapple with communications strategies around COVID and the vaccine, are working with tig…
Finland's Helsinki Smart Region establishes a leading framework for innovation and collaboration
The Helsinki Smart Region is a conglomeration of several municipalities in Finland working towards common goals: things like fighting climate change and improving mobility through innovation ecosyste…
Census Engagement Part 2 of 2: D.C. and Philadelphia talk network building and keeping engagement momentum alive after the census
As cities with deep digital divides, populations of people that have been historically undercounted and forgotten, and at a time with heightened distrust in government, Philly and DC were able to ove…
Census Engagement Part 1 of 2: D.C. and Philadelphia share how lessons learned from the 2020 Census are helping shape their ongoing engagement efforts
As cities with deep digital divides, populations of people that have been historically undercounted and forgotten, and at a time with heightened distrust in government, Philly and DC were able to ove…
Citizen Engagement Part 6 of 6: Clay County, FL looks to Granicus for full suite citizen engagement from online services to communications
In this short series, we’re talking all about Citizen Engagement. I’ll be highlighting some of the innovators in local government leveraging available tools to better engage with the communities they…
Citizen Engagement Part 5 of 6: Eden Prairie, MN partners with Polco to leverage survey experts and benchmarking tools for better engagement
In this short series, we’re talking all about Citizen Engagement. I’ll be highlighting some of the innovators in local government leveraging available tools to better engage with the communities they…
Citizen Engagement Part 4 of 6: Lancaster, PA partners with CitizenLab to boost inclusive engagement on city projects and more
In this short series, we’re talking all about Citizen Engagement. I’ll be highlighting some of the innovators in local government leveraging available tools to better engage with the communities they…
Citizen Engagement Part 3 of 6: Portland, ME and CBE collaborate with Civil Space to help inform and meaningfully engage their communities.
In this short series, we’re talking all about Citizen Engagement. I’ll be highlighting some of the innovators in local government leveraging available tools to better engage with the communities they…
Citizen Engagement Part 2 of 6: Williamsburg, VA and Arlington, TX are leveraging Citibot’s chatbot and texting tools to reach more citizens and improve city-wide operations.
In this short series, we’re talking all about Citizen Engagement. I’ll be highlighting some of the innovators in local government leveraging available tools to better engage with the communities they…
Citizen Engagement Part 1 of 6: Cheshire West and Chester Borough Council, UK using EngagementHQ for creative and meaningful engagement during the pandemic and beyond
In this short series, we’re talking all about Citizen Engagement. I’ll be highlighting some of the innovators in local government leveraging available tools to better engage with the communities they…
San Jose, CA pledges to close the digital divide by tackling access and digital literacy
Olivia from our team chats with the City of San José . They were the first city in the U.S. to pledge to close the digital divide by establishing the Digital Inclusion Partnership, an ambitious cros…
Derby, KS shares the struggles of a small government’s path to innovation
In this podcast we have a frank discussion with Scott Knebel, City Planner for Derby, Kansas and Assistant City Planner, Everett Haynes, about the roadblocks to innovation in small local governments,…
Adelaide, a city ‘designed for life,’ promotes rapid, low-cost innovation to deliver superior citizen services
In this interview with Clayton Wehner, Marketing Strategy and Innovation for the City of Adelaide, we'll dive more into some recent projects from using Minecraft to engage with the community to worki…
San Rafael prioritizing service design and views adverse behavior as their competition
Rebecca Woodbury, Director of Digital Service & Open Government for the City of San Rafael, CA, and Govlaunch dive into the city's progressive department focused on modernizing local government. Rebe…
The City of Unley focuses on automation, use of no code tools and metrics to track their success in digital transformation.
In a prior episode, I spoke with Clark County, Nevada about their digital transformation underway. Clark County is home to over 2 million people, so it may be easy for smaller local governments to di…
Christchurch, NZ uses data to engage the community through their in-house SmartView app
Michael Healy joins Olivia from Govlaunch to talk about Christchurch’s innovative SmartView platform, which is a web based app they have developed that pulls together data from a range of public and …
Montgomery County share tips on streamlining old processes and creating a more human government
As we work with our community of local governments to build the largest free innovation resource, we love to see projects that inspire innovation in other local governments. Today, I chat with Michae…
Richmond, VA enhances their 311 service by better leveraging existing technology
Like every other local government, Richmond, Virginia has contracts with loads of vendors. And while we can agree that more than enough due diligence occurs as a part of the procurement process, it’s…
Seattle's CTO on what’s holding innovation back in the public sector and how to overcome it
At Govlaunch, we focus a lot on the culture of innovation and how this concept needs to be embraced by all levels of government and across departments in order to drive any real change. We appreciate…