We drive public value from core urban infrastructure.
Civic Infrastructure Collaborative (CINCO) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization created by the City of Chicago and cross-sector partners to to make cities happier, healthier, and more productive .
CINCO's mission is to drive public value from core urban infrastructure through collaboration and technology-enabled innovation.
PRACTICAL, INCLUSIVE,
PLACE-BASED COLLABORATION
Public-private partnerships often sound good in theory (and press releases), but successful collaboration requires structure, perseverance, and dedicated resources. Our team brings tools and expertise to help partnerships live up to their potential. By focusing on specific infrastructure assets, communities, and needs, we ground our work in the real world.
As a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, Civic Infrastructure Collaborative serves as a neutral convener of public, private, and civic partners to help build and realize a shared vision for core urban infrastructure.
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Our team has a proven record of high-impact innovation across in key infrastructure sectors, including transportation and mobility, water management, and COVID-19 recovery in shared urban spaces.
ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING
Parking facilities play an increasingly important role as EV fueling stations, but operators have limited equipment and little visibility into how EV infrastructure is utilized across platforms and providers. Our collaboration with Bosch, Millennium Garages, Smarking, and ChargePoint is addressing this challenge.
SMART GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE
Cities can't tunnel their way out of urban flooding. With AECOM, Opti, Microsoft, and Senformatics, City Tech combined sensors and cloud-based analytics to evaluate surface infrastructure to manage stormwater. Using data collected from sites in Chicago, the platform is helping reduce urban flooding and prevent millions of dollars in property damage.
CAPACITY MANAGEMENT IN SHARED SPACES
Reopening following COVID-19 pose unique challenges to complex, shared, urban infrastructure such as conference centers and entertainment venues. Using Navy Pier as a testbed, City Tech, NTT, SDI Presence, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, and Intel, combined high- and low- tech solutions to enable adaptive reuse of the space.
OUR URBAN INOVATION ROOTS RUN DEEP
Civic Infrastructure Collaborative (CINCO) is the current incarnation of City Tech Collaborative, an urban solutions accelerator of tech-enabled solutions to make cities happier, healthier, and more productive.
With an ecosystem of 100+ corporate, municipal, civic, and philanthropic partners, City Tech completed more than 30 solution development projects and helped define the future of smart cities.
CINCO builds on City Tech's proven methodology with a focus on specific infrastructure assets that can benefit from advanced technology - while surrounding communities, stakeholders, and the broader world.
Learn more about City Tech Collaborative at www.CityTech.org.
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