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1 Boosting Your Smart City Credentials: Solutions & Good Practice Innovation and Technology Department Presented by Lea Deesing, MPA, PMP on Twitter

2 Population 315,000 RIVERSIDE, CALIFORNIA 83 Square Miles Charter City Council- Manager based Inland Southern California Full-Service City

3 CALIFORNIA COUNTIES 10 th most populated County in America City of Riverside is County Seat

4 TARGETED INDUSTRIES Agriculture & Food Related Industries Professional Services Advanced Manufacturing Technology & Entrepreneurship Health Care and Medical Services Retail & Restaurants

5 CITY OF ARTS AND INNOVATION

6 EXTERNAL INNOVATIVE ECOSYSTEM Collaborate with an innovative community Co-working Space Riverside.io High Tech CEO Forum Excite Incubator Space Locally hosted TEDx talks Funding the BIG Idea STEP Conference (6000+ attendees) Hackathon RivCodes Vocademy Maker Space & Maker Faire

7 INTERNAL INNOVATIVE ECOSYSTEM Goal: Bring jobs to the City and establish a great place to live and work Innovative IT Department Innovative Citywide Departments Citywide Fiber Initiatives Long Night of Arts and Innovation 24 x 7 Virtual City Hall EngageRiverside.com SmartRiverside 501(c)3 Seizing our Destiny

8 INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT

9 24 x 7 Virtual City Hall 17.3 million page views per year, which is more than 47,000 per day Large amount of content and data available on web site 42%+ of all visits are from mobile devices CITY WEB SITE

10 SAMPLE ONLINE AND MOBILE SERVICES Museum Harada House Virtual Tour Government TV Channel Community Calendar Online Business License Renewal Electronic Plan Submittal Parks Activities Registration Permits Inspection Scheduling Vendor Bidding Citation Payments Utility Payments Transparency Portal Economic Development tools more

11 MOBILE APPS Riverside Tour Guide Riverside Nature Spotter Explore Riverside Riverside 311 Mobile Agenda

12 The city has 43 social media groups, channels, and feeds with more than 60,000 followers! Facebook (Almost 20,000 likes!) Twitter YouTube LinkedIn Instagram Pinterest Share Your Ideas Riverside Citizen Engagement WE RE SOCIAL!

13 ENGAGERIVERSIDE.COM

14 SmartRiverside NonProfit

15 DIGITAL INCLUSION Helps narrow the digital divide Available to low income families Free Technology Training Free PCs (over 7500 so far) Free Microsoft Office Free PC Support Free Computer Labs Funded by grants, corporate donations & annual golf tournament "Raise your hand if you have never used a computer before."

16 UNDERPRIVILEGED YOUTH SmartRiverside mentors underprivileged youth MENTORING Project BRIDGE Youth Opportunity Centers Workforce Development on the job training Role Models

17 STEM OUTREACH We reached 700+ students in region over the last 18 months Including speaking engagements with: The Riverside STEM Academy 8th Grade Girls Math and Science Conference American Association of University Women (AAUW) Nontraditional Employment for Women (NEW) day at RCC Girls Who Code conference

18 CODING PROGRAM FOR YOUTH Computer Coding Program Code to Careers Coding programs for grades 4 8 Google CS First Robotics Coding for grades 9 12 Raspberry Pi Kits Road map Google CS First Site Photo

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20 SEIZING OUR DESTINY Seizing Our Destiny is Riverside s movement for a prosperous future. It is focused around four community pillars: Fuel Intelligent Growth Be a Catalyst for Innovation Continue to be a Location of Choice Become an Increasingly Unified City Leverage Our Assets to Help Businesses Create Jobs for our Community

21 ESTABLISHMENTS 54 Professional, Scientific & Technical Services* *EDD Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW)

22 AVERAGE EMPLOYMENT 54 Professional, Scientific & Technical Services* 8,000 7,000 6,113 6,959 7,382 7,441 7,567 6,000 5,000 4,973 4,481 4,788 4,956 4,000 3,000 2,000 1,000 0 *EDD Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) Average Employment

23 AWARDS & PUBLICITY 2014 s 5th place in the Digital Cities Awards for Cities over 250,000 citizens from the Center for Digital Government 2015 Award of Excellence from the Municipal Information Systems Association of California 2015 s Finalist for Best Web Portal in the Nation Award from the Center for Digital Government 2015 Harvard Innovation Award for Mobile Applications

24 AWARDS & PUBLICITY Forbes 8th Coolest City in America Forbes Rank #2 Millennial Boomtown City California Air Resources Board s Coolest California City CareerBliss.com s Rank #6 Nation s Happiest Cities for Young Professionals SBA Startup in a Day Winner $50k #1 Rated City for non-agricultural job growth in 2013 up 4 percent Based on U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

25 Striving to become a TechHire Community Expanded coding programs More hackathons WHAT S NEXT? More attraction of tech companies in downtown area Narrowing the gender gap in tech industry Inventory and survey local technology companies

26 WHAT S NEXT? Identify programs to assist start-ups go to next level Develop pursuit teams to attract business from target industries Identify cross-marketing opportunities with companies from targeted sectors Expand collaboration with entrepreneur programs at local colleges and universities

27 Thank You! IDEAS FOR TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION? on Twitter

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