Skip to content

3Di Insights

Ideas, education, and reflections for stronger communities.

Featured Article

Recent Posts

What is Digital Transformation and Innovation?

Imagine you had the ability to more effectively captivate your customers to inspire stronger loyalty. Or if you could empower your team to work much more productively: reducing errors and redundant work, and even automating complex tasks.

READ MORE

How To Measure Community Engagement

You've launched community initiatives, held town hall meetings, and even rolled out an online platform for resident feedback. But you're left with a nagging question: "Is any of this actually working?" You're not alone.

READ MORE

Keep Informed

Subscribe to get fresh insights delivered to your inbox.

15 Reasons Why Community Engagement is Important for Cities

Community engagement is the cornerstone of effective city leadership. Whether you're spearheading a new project, holding a position of governance, or planning a community initiative, the collective voice of the community is a powerful tool that can guide, refine, and elevate your efforts.

READ MORE

Community Fire Prevention Programs: Engagement is Essential

Fire agencies frequently grapple with an unfortunate challenge: their responsibilities are expanding, but their resources are not. This imbalance can lead to overstretched teams, missed inspections, and a community left vulnerable to fire risks. Too many fire agencies simply don’t have the time or...

READ MORE

How Technology Helps with Proactive Fire Defense

Faced with fire risks rising each passing year, and especially with the increasing threat of wildfires, fire marshals and public safety leaders are feeling the strain. Despite tireless efforts, the sheer scale of the problem can often feel insurmountable. How can we better protect communities from...

READ MORE

Reducing Labor in Your Fire Inspection Program

Fire marshals face a daunting dilemma: higher demands for fire safety, yet increasingly strained resources to manage risk in the community. Worse still, traditional inspection methods are inefficient, often taking days to process from start to finish.

READ MORE

How to Encourage Youth to Participate in Community Activities

Young people play a vital role in shaping our communities. Their participation in community activities like volunteer programs, advisory boards, and environmental initiatives fosters their personal growth and contributes to our community’s vibrancy and resilience.

READ MORE

How Technology Helps Community Participation in Local Government

Community participation is a cornerstone of effective city administration, fostering a sense of ownership and involvement among residents. However, not even community participation is immune to politics: local power structures can make engagement more complex, and lead to a lack of representation...

READ MORE

Should You Upgrade Your Government ERP System?

ERP, or Enterprise Resource Planning systems, are comprehensive software platforms that integrate various functions of an organization into a unified system. For government agencies, ERP systems can manage a wide range of operations such as finance, human resources, procurement, project management,...

READ MORE