What’s New in Civic Tech: Harvard Unveils Local Gov Center
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Officials have announced the creation of the Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University, which aims in the simplest terms to strengthen local government performance the world over.
At this week’s Bloomberg CityLab event perhaps the world’s preeminent annual gathering of local government experts and officials former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that Bloomberg Philanthropies is making a $150 million investment in the project. A subsequent press release about the center noted that the goal is to essentially work with Harvard to build upon the trajectory of the Bloomberg Harvard Ci