Nextdoor Acquires Citizen Engagement Platform Neighborland Months before it amped up its local government efforts with a new mobile app for public agencies, the community-based social media platform Nextdoor had bought a competitor whose focus was citizen engagement. Biobot Analytics to Track COVID-19 in Sewage Pro Bono Repurposing analytics it used to produce data on the opioid epidemic, Biobot is offering a pro bono water testing program to contribute data to the health community’s growing understanding of the pandemic. Kansas Uses Cellphone Location Data Tool to Track COVID-19 A recently launched dashboard is showing users where people are obeying stay-at-home orders or not. The tool uses anonymized cellphone location data to identify where people are congregating during stay-home orders. |