Smart Cities Initiative to Develop Policy and Tech for Phoenix

A partnership between the public, private industry, and Arizona State University will help use emerging technologies and data analytics to guide Phoenix into its smart-city future.  Faculty Fellow Diana Bowman heads up the Center for Smart Cities and Regions, which has partnered with the Arizona Institute for Digital Progress (IDP) and the Greater Phoenix Economic Council for the Greater Phoenix Smart Region […]

Bowman, Papa Talk Phoenix’s Autonomous Vehicle Ecosystem

The Phoenix area is a hotbed of autonomous vehicle development and testing. It is not unusual to spot cars topped with spinning cameras and other technology driving down city streets. City and State government has made an effort to attract tech companies, like Google, Uber, and others, working on autonomous vehicles. Faculty Fellow Diana Bowman and law […]

Center Scholar Helps Win $6M for Transportation Tech

Center Scholar Dominic Papa, through his Institute for Digital Progress (iDP), helped Arizona and Maricopa County win a $6 million grant for transportation technology deployment. The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration awards the Advanced Transportation and Congestion Management Technologies Deployment grant program for large-scale deployment of advanced technologies.The Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) previously applied […]

LSI Center Scholar launches Cisco IoT Challenge

  About one year ago, Dominic Papa, a 1L ASU law student and LSI Center Scholar, began a non-profit organization, the Institute for Digital Progress (IDP).  IDP is dedicated to transforming the City of Phoenix into a global hub of smart city technology through collaborative civic engagement. Its mission is to build better cities globally by fostering […]