The Regional University Research Collective (RURC) is a collective impact initiative led by KC Digital Drive that unites the Kansas City region’s research universities—KU, K-State, and UMKC—with civic, industry, and philanthropic partners to strengthen the region’s innovation economy.
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Clear My Record is an ongoing collaborative project to build tech tools that support criminal record expungement, and is a civic project from Code for KC.
KC Digital Drive, working with a group of community partners, is putting up an array of sensors across Kansas City that will be used to measure air quality microclimates and detect pollution sources. Through a partnership with US Ignite and funded by a National Science Foundation grant, KC Digital Drive received 50 air quality sensors that measure temperature, humidity, and particles (PM 2.5). As a citizen science project, residents in the targeted area will be able to participate by having a sensor on their property. A visualization map of the data received from the sensors will be available to the public.
This workshop is intended to identify project opportunities that connect leading edge academic research with the immediate problems facing local and state government, private industry, and entrepreneurs working in transportation and mobility infrastructure and solutions. It is the second in a series designed to meet future mobility challenges and opportunities, sponsored by the National Science Foundation. The inaugural workshop in Fall 2019 included a multi-disciplinary discussion of societal trends and needs.
Peter and Donal join KC Digital Drive’s team as ACC AmeriCorps members, excited to add capacity and build the digital equity and innovation ecosystems in the Kansas City area.
KC Digital Drive recently hosted a workshop on developing an organizational AI policy for members of the Community Technology Action Network (CTAN), following up on our three previous workshops on generative AI basics. This workshop was built around a template organizational AI policy for nonprofits which can be accessed here. The template policy provides suggested […]
KC Digital Drive has partnered with the KC Developers Conference to host a hack-a-thon and relaunch their Code for KC program. This partnership looks to bring new capacity-building tech solutions to nonprofit organizations at no cost.