The Grid Operator That Publishes Its Own Outages
A regional operator has begun releasing a plain-language report of every failure, within a day. Trust has been the surprise dividend.
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Technology
Infrastructure, systems and the choices inside them.
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What Open Procurement Data Makes Possible
When a city publishes what it buys, small suppliers and curious residents start to find patterns the officials missed.
Who Maintains the Software a City Runs On?
Public services increasingly depend on code that nobody in government owns. A small number of cities are changing that.
The Real Cost of Cheap Sensors
A pilot that filled a district with air-quality monitors discovered that buying the devices was the cheapest part.