Let’s Innovate for Vegas

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: The Privacy Aware Identity Documents concept and applying it to a few different Initiatives… Links Innovate for Vegas Cohort https://innovateforvegas.org Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.foundation PodLink for Let’s Innovate for Vegas https://pod.link/1832591327 Estonian E-Residency https://www.e-resident.gov.ee/ AI Disclosure Unless otherwi...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: The response for the proposed Smart City Sprint Week to take place during Global Entrepreneurship Week this month is not getting any traction, which means it will be canceled, which means we can adjust our plans for the balance of this calendar year ahead of the Smarter Smart City Challenge in January 2027… Links Innovate for Vegas Cohort https://innovateforvegas...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Tuning up our AI policies for the upcoming calendar year (and beyond?) as the world continues to evolve with us… Links Innovate for Vegas Cohort https://innovateforvegas.org Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.foundation PodLink for Let’s Innovate for Vegas https://pod.link/1832591327 AI Disclosure Unless otherwise specified, ALL writing and sp...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Our websites and web-based undertakings have been in dire need of attention, design, and development in various combinations for far too long and as Merlin might tell you, the future has taken root in the present. Links Innovate for Vegas Cohort https://innovateforvegas.org Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.foundation PodLink for Let’s Innova...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: We mention the two homepages and the reason for having two entrances to our organization, let’s go into some detail for the curious… Links Innovate for Vegas Cohort https://innovateforvegas.org Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.foundation Pod.link for Let’s Innovate for Vegas https://pod.link/1832591327 AI Disclosure Unless otherwise specifie...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: The Smarter Smart City Challenge approaches on the January 2027 horizon, but what about Global Entrepreneurship Week in November 2026? A good time to spend a week of Ideating around Civic Innovation possibilities that could elevate your community and maybe turn into a startup… Links Innovate for Vegas Cohort https://innovateforvegas.org Innovate for Vegas Foundat...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Another year, another Hacktoberfest, the format has changed drastically so some of the issues have magically disappeared, but is it right for what we’re doing? Maybe not… Links Innovate for Vegas Cohort https://innovateforvegas.org Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.foundation Pod.link for Let’s Innovate for Vegas https://pod.link/1832591327 H...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: The upcoming Smarter Smart City Challenge is right around the corner, and we always want our activities and undertakings to be a good and safe experience for all, so let’s take a look at Code of Conduct requirements and expectations. Links Innovate for Vegas Cohort https://innovateforvegas.org Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.foundation Pod....

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: The Smarter Smart City Challenge 2027 will be upon us soon enough, and while it is to last through the entire year, it also needs to be ready to start on the start date, so the Meta Planning continues, again… Links Innovate for Vegas Cohort https://innovateforvegas.org Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.foundation Smart City Vegas https://smar...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: We literally just talked about Age Verification in the previous episode of this program, and the world then learned about many millions of identity records held by a third party stolen in a security breach. Or why open systems are a better idea. Links Innovate for Vegas Cohort https://innovateforvegas.org Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.fou...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Online age verification is coming, and in some cases has already been here for quite some time, our Global Innovation Hub should take the lead here where checking ID is par for the course in Greater Vegas. Links Innovate for Vegas Cohort https://innovateforvegas.org Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.foundation Wikipedia info (ongoing) https:/...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Directors seated, taxes filed, LinkedIn deprecated, one or two more things on the to-do list, it is time to get back to work to enable the Civic Volunteer Spring and, of course, the upcoming Smarter Smart City Challenge come January 2027. Links Innovate for Vegas Cohort https://innovateforvegas.org Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.foundation...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: A wandering missive concerning the way a smarter smart city might foster more connection within itself, and maybe beyond… Links Innovate for Vegas Cohort https://innovateforvegas.org Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.foundation Toronto Sidewalk Labs (tomorrow.city) https://www.tomorrow.city/sidewalk-toronto-the-vision-behind-googles-failed-ci...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Being a part of one’s community means many things, one of them is being informed. We should all have some idea what is happening around us, and why, and what might come of it, and we could all also be a part of making progress toward making that happen more and better. Links Innovate for Vegas Cohort https://innovateforvegas.org Innovate for Vegas Foundation http...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: “The best-laid schemes of mice and men, go oft awry,” so said Robert Burns by way of his poem, To a Mouse, in November, 1785. Our plans are changing for September of this year, for the concerned mice in our audience. Links Innovate for Vegas Cohort https://innovateforvegas.org Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.foundation To A Mouse, Robert Bu...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Every journey may begin with a single step, but that step better be on a navigable path that enables each step, first and all that follow. Let’s call it Infrastructure. Links Innovate for Vegas Cohort https://innovateforvegas.org Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.foundation

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Nevada, certainly Southern Nevada, leads the way on water sustainability research and implementation, with much of the share of water allotted from Lake Mead recycled and returned, which helps a lot with the math. There are ways we can contribute to the looming challenge brought on by the lack of snow pack, though, let’s talk about it. Links Innovate for Vegas Ac...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: A few years ago we had decided that proactive recruitment of civic volunteers didn’t really make much sense, that the drive to participate really needs to come from within; however, if that drive is present, our organization needs to be discoverable, and in Vegas this is tricky business. Business we are already pursuing, of course. Links Innovate for Vegas Activi...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Year five started, new board members seated, time to get back to work… a refresher for repeat listeners, an overview for newcomers. Links Innovate for Vegas Cohort https://innovateforvegas.org Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.foundation

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Our fourth fiscal year ends today, June 30 as we record today’s episode, almost requiring a retrospective episode, so here we are… Links Innovate for Vegas Activity https://innovateforvegas.org Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.foundation

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: The roots of our organization are found in the original Code for Vegas, part of Code for America and that model of operation. We have since gone another way… Links Innovate for Vegas Activity https://innovateforvegas.org Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.foundation

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: With Greater Vegas suffering somewhat from a silo structure, intended or otherwise, we have had much to ponder concerning the way former brigades and newly-formed and forming cohorts of civic volunteers pursuing civic innovation could, maybe should collaborate. Links Innovate for Vegas Activity https://innovateforvegas.org Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://in...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Civic Volunteerism, Civic Co-Creation, and now Civic Innovation. A lot of Civic stuff to talk about lately… Links Innovate for Vegas Activity https://innovateforvegas.org Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.foundation From One Perspective https://www.govtech.com/civic

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: We have talked about Co-Creation before, as well as Civic Volunteerism and more recently Civic Innovation, now we can talk about bringing these together in Greater Vegas during CityCamp Las Vegas and the Smarter Smart City Challenge, and perhaps all of the time… Links Innovate for Vegas Activity https://innovateforvegas.org Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://i...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: LinkedIn is not a good platform, we have covered this previously more than once, but we are going to give it one last try before our Unconference events coming up in September 2026 and January 2027, wherein we will find out if Follow & Forget is also Follow & Ignore… Links Innovate for Vegas Activity https://innovateforvegas.org Innovate for Vegas Foundat...