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MetroLab Summit 2022 — We’re Back.

“Change is driven by those who are brave enough to imagine a future that departs from the status quo.” — Terra Baer, graduating student at University of Chicago during her opening remarks to the summit on day two. Walking into the 2022 MetroLab Summit, we knew it was going to…

Metrolab Summit 2022

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Announcing Our New Membership Approach: A Note from Executive Director Kate Garman Burns

Victor Hugo once said “change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.” Since MetroLab Network launched in 2015, much has changed. A pandemic has shifted our daily life, new federal administrations have begun, and our society is different. …

Metrolab Network

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Announcing Our New Membership Approach: A Note from Executive Director Kate Garman Burns

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MetroLab Welcomes New Members to the Board of Directors

MetroLab is announcing the addition of Tom Schenk, Katharine Lusk, and Emily Yates to the MetroLab Board of Directors. These three have long been involved with the MetroLab Network and bring valuable and innovative perspectives from local government, academia, and the private sector. …

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MetroLab Welcomes New Members to the Board of Directors

Jan 18

One-on-One with Kate Garman Burns, MetroLab Network’s New Executive Director

Congratulations on your new role as MetroLab Network’s Executive Director! Could you tell us about yourself; your personal and professional background? Thank you! To start, I am proudly from Kansas City (Joe’s KC BBQ is the best place in KC, trust me on this), and I’m a lawyer who loves…

Kate Garman

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Jan 18

MetroLab Network Welcomes New Executive Director, Kate Garman Burns

The Board of Directors and staff of MetroLab Network Inc. are pleased to announce that Kate Garman Burns will join the Organization as Executive Director effective Monday, January 31, 2022. MetroLab Network is an international network of local government-university collaboratives focused on advancing civic research and innovation to improve social…

Metrolab

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Oct 27, 2021

Civic Innovation Challenge: Civic Research Collaboratives Making Real Local Impact

As the world grapples with infrastructure and development gaps that the COVID-19 pandemic has made more apparent, it has become important for academics and local communities to form strategic alliances. Now more than ever, we need stakeholders cut from different strata of society working together to find multi-pronged, actionable solutions…

Civic Innovation

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Jun 18, 2021

Civic Technology That Respects Privacy with Kelsey Finch (Future of Privacy Forum)

This blog post is part of our ‘Data, Privacy, and the Future of Trust in Public Institutions’ series, which is penned by Garrett Morrow, who was MetroLab’s Experiential Research Fellow during Fall 2020. …

Civic Technology

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Jun 11, 2021

Building the Smart City from the Bottom-up with Hector Dominguez-Aguirre (City of Portland PDX)

On January 22, 2021, I had the pleasure of speaking with Hector Dominguez-Aguirre. We spoke about his education, his work in Mexico, his experiences in the private sector in the Pacific Northwest, and his current work in the City of Portland with the Smart City PDX team. Hector was trained…

Smart City Solutions

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Building the Smart City from the Bottom-up with Hector Dominguez-Aguirre (City of Portland PDX)

Jun 4, 2021

Standardizing Public-Private Data Collaborations with Michael Schnuerle (Open Mobility Foundation)

Public Private

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May 28, 2021

City-University Collaboration in Community Oriented Data Re-Use and Responsible Civic Artificial Intelligence with Andrew Young (GovLab)

Civic Research

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City-University Collaboration in Community Oriented Data Re-Use and Responsible Civic Artificial…