Plus, New Mexico turns to Binti to modernize foster care tech, RoadBotics releases product to identify manhole covers (et cetera), Govlaunch and CivStart partner to bring more business to gov tech and more...
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TOP NEWS

Startup Aims to Modernize the Property Tax Exemption Audit By combining a county’s tax rolls with machine learning and more than 80 different data sources, The Exemption Project creates a ranked list of properties likely to have unqualified or unclaimed homestead exemptions.

New Mexico Uses Startup to Modernize Foster Care Systems Since its inception in 2017, California-based software company Binti has been attracting government clients to its SaaS model to replace decades-old custom solutions with a more mobile, automated workflow.

RoadBotics Can Now Find Manhole Covers (Et Cetera) in Smartphone Videos The company's new product, Image Logger, can recognize "assets" in and around roadways to help government compile catalogs of what they own, using video taken from vehicle-mounted smartphones.

Govlaunch, CivStart Partner to Bring New Players to Gov Tech Govlaunch, the free “innovation wiki” resource for government, has teamed up with the recently formed civic tech startup accelerator CivStart to promote and support new businesses in the gov tech space.

Deloitte-Salesforce Suite Aims to Help COVID-19 Recovery Deloitte's new GovConnect software suite, built on the Salesforce platform, is meant to help governments set up contact tracing programs, manage business reopenings and support remote work, among other things.

Tyler Technologies Makes the S&P 500, a Rare Gov Tech Feat The company's inclusion is a sort of official recognition that it's one of the largest publicly traded corporations in the U.S. That's not common for tech companies who devote most of their business to the public sector.

ID Startup Be Heard Raises $2M, Refocuses Beyond Gov Tech Be Heard started out making tools to verify constituents who wanted to talk to elected officials, then released a mobile app to store identity verification information. Now, it's moving past the public sector.

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WHAT WE'RE READING

Study: Biased Data Makes AVs Less Likely to See a Dark-Skinned Pedestrian (StreetsBlog USA)

Nextdoor Suspends Program to Forward Suspicions to Police (Bloomberg)

Data Outlines How Cops Spend Their Time (New York Times)

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