Gainesville, FL

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2019

Project Category: Smart Cities

Description: Through this Smart Cities grant, the City of Gainesville will work with local partners to host a month-long  'Smart City Pop-up Living Lab' to engage residents in accessing, understanding, and using Smart City data. This will include hands-on interactive exhibits that encourage thoughtful community dialogue on data, connected technologies, and quality of life. Physical exhibits will be made mobile when possible, and will be reproducible in a digital format for web-based engagement.

Gainesville, FL

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2020

Project Category: Civic Participation

Description: The City of Gainesville’s Online Civic Hackathon will bring together people of all ages and backgrounds to co-design a more livable city using Human-Centered Design ideation strategies, new technologies, and the City’s Open Data Portal.