Innovation | Bloomberg Cities

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Data

How to use federal aid to bolster City Hall’s innovation capacity

Innovator of the Week

Building a sandbox for innovation

Innovator of the Week

Training pays off for Chillicothe Mayor

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Data-Driven Management

5 ways that Certified cities are leading with data

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Co-creation

What a Helsinki competition can teach all idea-seeking cities

Clockwise: Mayor Femke Halsema (Amsterdam, Netherlands), Mayor Claudia López (Bogotá, Colombia), Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum (Mexico City, Mexico), Muriel Bowser (Washington, DC), Mayor Dagur Eggertsson (Reykjavík, Iceland), and Mayor London Breed (San Francisco, California)

Innovation Teams

Leadership in the digital age

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Data-Driven Management

Fighting displacement with data

Innovator of the Week

Leveraging data to drive equity and engagement

Innovator of the Week

Innovating an end to food insecurity

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Innovation

5 tech takeaways from the authors of 'Power to the Public'

Innovator of the Week

Boosting citizen engagement through human-centered design

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Innovation Teams

5 lessons from French innovation teams