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Recommendation to approve the City’s Smart City Initiative Strategy and Data Privacy Guidelines to enable the City of Long Beach to use emerging technology and data to expand its capacity to enhance City operations, improve the daily lives of Long Beach residents, and protect residents’ personal privacy and digital rights. (Citywide)
DISCUSSION
As requested by the City Council on October 22, 2019, the Technology and Innovation Department (TID) has initiated the Smart City Initiative. Since the initial request, TID worked with the Long Beach community and relevant stakeholders to develop a Smart City Initiative and guiding priorities to better prepare the City of Long Beach (City) to utilize and deploy emerging technologies to meet community-sourced needs. The Smart City Initiative Strategy and Data Privacy Guidelines were developed through a collaborative process that included community conversations, key stakeholder interviews, a public study session with the Technology and Innovation Commission (Commission), a workshop with local technology partners, and analysis provided by HR&A Advisors, Inc., a leading technology and economic development advisory firm.
TID held a total of 13 community meetings between October 26, 2019 and January 20, 2021. These meetings allowed TID staff to receive input from community members and local technology stakeholders on the opportunities and concerns regarding emerging technology, perspectives on how the City can best protect their personal privacy, and their preferred methods of ongoing partnership and engagement on this topic. TID worked with community-based organizations to recruit participants for these workshops and conducted specific outreach to community groups representing youth, older adults, and communities that have been historically impacted by the digital divide. Finally, TID distributed a multilingual online and paper-based survey to solicit additional input, which was completed by over 450 residents....
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