WEI Is Back. Who in Atlanta should apply?
With its relaunch, WEI is looking to bring on 15 female entrepreneurs who are building either high-growth potential or are scalable social impact ventures and have already created over $50k in revenue.
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Tye Hayes Is On A Mission To Transform Local Government
Tye Hayes knows a thing or two about managing professional crises.
After her time in the Navy, Hayes spent the early part of her career at Lockheed Martin as the head of the Information Security Compliance and Governance group. After becoming a mom, the College Park native and Georgia State
City of Atlanta taps local fintech to grow innovative B2B Marketplace
The ATLinBusiness Marketplace, launched today in partnership with local fintech Now® and Invest Atlanta, is bringing the ‘Buy Local’ movement into the B2B world.
The Marketplace is designed to connect local small businesses with major corporations and other procurement organizations in the area.
An expansion of ATLinBusiness, a city-wide
How One GovTech Founder Is Helping Cities Like Atlanta Better Connect With Constituents
Cristian Robiou describes his road to GovTech as a bit of a “process of elimination.”
He went to law school with the expectation of becoming an academic or a litigator, but saw entrepreneurship as a way to “solve real problems…and provide some social utility.”
Government inefficiency was one real-
From Smart Bug Farms to Plant Data, Atlanta AgTech Challenge Kicks Off On the BeltLine
Agribusiness is Georgia’s number one industry, and is important across the Southeast at large. But with a projected 70 percent of the world’s population condensing in urban areas by the year 2050 — not to mention the effects of a warming world — the forward-thinking are looking towards farming
Atlanta's Open Checkbook: An Opportunity to Speak Softly and Carry A Big Statistic
This was a birthday present for me, though, late by one day — so maybe it was intended for Beyonce. Either way, on September 4, the City of Atlanta launched Open Checkbook, an online portal that catalogues city expenditures and allows the public to view, sort and download that data.
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What's the Next Step For Smart Cities? According to Atlanta's CIO, A City-Based Enterprise Data Platform
For the last few years, Atlanta's city government has been on a quest to utilize the latest technologies across IoT, big data analytics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to tackle the city's biggest challenges — everything from traffic to water to public safety and crime. This vision