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Connecting the Columbus Tech community to the CIE through participatory workshops
As a data infrastructure initiative, CIE Columbus faces many technical and security challenges. The good news is that many - if not all - of these challenges have already been addressed in other industries (e.g. retail, financial services, utilities, manufacturing, supply chain, etc.).
Our goal is to address three key technical/data challenges in the CIE Columbus initiative through workshops and identify pathways to solutions. The workshops will align with pilots testing the feasibility of essential CIE features.
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Challenge 1 | September 26, 2023
Aligning Resident Biographic Data
Challenge 2 | November 29, 2023
Using AI to Pair Residents with Services
Challenge 3 | March 13, 2024
Ensuring Data Security & Privacy
About Smart Columbus
Smart Columbus, an entity of the Columbus Partnership, is an agile, collaborative innovation lab that serves the Columbus Region by anticipating and advancing what is new and next at the intersection of technology and community good.
We seek to increase access to opportunity and an improved quality of life by promoting thought leadership on the future of cities, fostering an ecosystem of regional partners, and deploying human-centered technology in mobility, sustainability, digitalization, and urban technologies.
About the Community Information Exchange (CIE)
No agency can lift a person out of poverty alone. Our community organizations want to rally around individuals and provide true, lasting impact by collaborating across agency borders for each person's unique benefit. Inspired by examples from other communities nationwide, Franklin County and the City of Columbus have launched the development of a local Community Information Exchange (CIE) to facilitate cross-agency coordination. Smart Columbus is the primary accountable entity for implementing the design and development phases of the product.