Keith Hanson

Keith Hanson

Shreveport, Louisiana, United States
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  • Vanguard Vision Technologies, LLC

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    Shreveport, LA

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    Shreveport, Louisiana, United States

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    Shreveport, Louisiana Area

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  • Mapping Broadband Access with Garbage Trucks - from Connect This Ep. 20

    Institute for Local Self Reliance

    Full video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F05FyMTL9RY

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  • An inside look at Shreveport's Real-Time Crime Center

    Shreveport Times

    Keith Hanson, City of Shreveport’s chief technology officer likens the crime center to having eyes all over the city that will save man-hours for police officers from having to search, find the video when no tips come in.


    “A Real-Time Crime Center pulls in feeds from surveillance technology, largely from cameras,” Hanson explained, “It can also be for things like shot detection and other things that are going on. All of that comes into one area where analysts watch for 911 calls…

    Keith Hanson, City of Shreveport’s chief technology officer likens the crime center to having eyes all over the city that will save man-hours for police officers from having to search, find the video when no tips come in.


    “A Real-Time Crime Center pulls in feeds from surveillance technology, largely from cameras,” Hanson explained, “It can also be for things like shot detection and other things that are going on. All of that comes into one area where analysts watch for 911 calls. Once they see a call pop up on the map, they will take that and do everything to try either find video footage of the incident or find the requested information.”

    https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/2021/09/17/shreveport-real-time-crime-center-inside-how-works/5596400001/

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  • Hacking Garbage Trucks to Bring Broadband to Those in Need

    MAKE Magazine

    Put a Maker in Charge

    Want to get something done? Put a maker in charge. That’s just what happened in January 2019 when the newly elected Mayor Adrian Perkins of Shreveport, Louisiana, who’d made a Smart City platform central to his campaign, appointed Keith Hanson to be the city’s first Chief Technology Officer (CTO). Hanson, like Perkins, is young for a public official (both are 35) and a Shreveport native who is committed to retooling the city’s systems for the 21st century. Indeed…

    Put a Maker in Charge

    Want to get something done? Put a maker in charge. That’s just what happened in January 2019 when the newly elected Mayor Adrian Perkins of Shreveport, Louisiana, who’d made a Smart City platform central to his campaign, appointed Keith Hanson to be the city’s first Chief Technology Officer (CTO). Hanson, like Perkins, is young for a public official (both are 35) and a Shreveport native who is committed to retooling the city’s systems for the 21st century. Indeed, among the first plans they put in place was an interactive online budget — dubbed the “People’s Budget” — created with open source software to provide greater transparency into city spending, and the hiring of a dedicated data scientist, who quickly discovered an accounting oversight that reaped the cash-strapped city an unexpected windfall.

    https://makezine.com/2021/08/10/hacking-garbage-trucks-to-bring-broadband-to-those-in-need/

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  • Shreveport puts technology on garbage trucks to find digital divide

    KTBS

    SHREVEPORT, La. -- Garbage trucks rolling all over the city are doing more than just hauling trash. They're helping the city work toward the goal of universal internet.

    In what's believed to be the first such program in the nation, the city's technology team has hooked up mini-computers with GPS trackers to trash trucks. The gizmos detect where homes are hooked up to the internet -- and where they're not.

    The data generates an interactive map. Chief Technology Officer Keith Hanson…

    SHREVEPORT, La. -- Garbage trucks rolling all over the city are doing more than just hauling trash. They're helping the city work toward the goal of universal internet.

    In what's believed to be the first such program in the nation, the city's technology team has hooked up mini-computers with GPS trackers to trash trucks. The gizmos detect where homes are hooked up to the internet -- and where they're not.

    The data generates an interactive map. Chief Technology Officer Keith Hanson points to yellow and other bright colored tiles on the map that indicate where more homes are paying for an internet connection. Black tiles are areas where few homes are connected.

    https://www.ktbs.com/news/shreveport-puts-technology-on-garbage-trucks-to-find-digital-divide/article_986474a2-1a26-11eb-9765-e335c74f514c.html

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  • #1 Success of Mayor Perkins in First Year

    KEEL Radio

    1) Keith Hanson as Chief Technology Officer

    This item was on the list of everyone I talked to. Hanson has been working diligently to improve technology in our city and save money.

    https://710keel.com/top-10-successes-of-mayor-perkins-in-his-first-year/?utm_source=tsmclip&utm_medium=referral

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  • Mid-Sized IT Innovation: Two Cities Chart Their Own Course

    GovTech

    Shreveport, La., and Boulder, Colo., are using tools like open source development, flatter organizational structures and performance dashboards to inspire continuous improvements in each city’s use of technology.

    https://www.govtech.com/civic/mid-sized-it-innovation-two-cities-chart-their-own-course.html

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  • Shreveport CTO Keith Hanson Paying Dividends

    Shreveport Times

    Hiring the City of Shreveport’s first chief technology officer is a decision that’s paying off for the city as Keith Hanson's efforts found more than $2 million in open purchase orders that had no transactions or activity on them.

    Hanson’s position did not exist before Mayor Adrian Perkins took office. Taking on the role involved Hanson reorganizing and bringing the city’s IT department into the 21st century with new staff as well as new technology.

    “Things were in a pretty sad…

    Hiring the City of Shreveport’s first chief technology officer is a decision that’s paying off for the city as Keith Hanson's efforts found more than $2 million in open purchase orders that had no transactions or activity on them.

    Hanson’s position did not exist before Mayor Adrian Perkins took office. Taking on the role involved Hanson reorganizing and bringing the city’s IT department into the 21st century with new staff as well as new technology.

    “Things were in a pretty sad state when I got here,” Hanson told The Times this week. “One of the first things I did was create a special projects team who reports directly to me. The purpose of this team is to pick one major accomplishment to get done every three months.”

    Shreveport’s first Chief Technology Officer Keith Hanson has already help save the city money.
    One of those team members is the data scientist. It’s the data scientist’s job to upload all of the data the city has into what’s called a data warehouse or data lake, which is how the $2 million was found.

    https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/2020/01/11/shreveport-chief-technology-officer-keith-hanson-paying-dividends/4436673002/

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Honors & Awards

  • Bloomberg Innovator of the Week

    Bloomberg

    When Keith Hanson in January left the small software company he started in Shreveport to become that city’s first chief technology officer, he brought one thing with him: his inventiveness.

    “I bootstrapped my company — I didn’t have tons of money to get it off the ground,” he said, noting one similarity to working in a mid-sized city with modest budgets. “We don’t get tons of funds. That means I’ve got to get scrappy. There’s always a solution, even if there’s duct tape and glue…

    When Keith Hanson in January left the small software company he started in Shreveport to become that city’s first chief technology officer, he brought one thing with him: his inventiveness.

    “I bootstrapped my company — I didn’t have tons of money to get it off the ground,” he said, noting one similarity to working in a mid-sized city with modest budgets. “We don’t get tons of funds. That means I’ve got to get scrappy. There’s always a solution, even if there’s duct tape and glue involved.”

    https://bloombergcities.medium.com/looking-for-low-cost-hacks-to-make-a-data-driven-city-f310e8e55aa2

  • 2012 Gold Winner - Mobile Applications - Entertainment

    Davey Awards

    http://www.daveyawards.com/winners/gallery/?year=8&type=12

    The largest and most prestigious awards competition exclusively for the "Davids" of creativity.

    David defeated the giant Goliath with a big idea and a little rock - the sort of thing small firms do each year. The annual International Davey Awards honors the achievements of the "Creative Davids" who derive their strength from big ideas, rather than stratospheric budgets.

  • Growth Company of the Year

    Louisiana Technology Council

    eWards is a celebration of innovation and achievement for those in the community that have made a positive impact in the technology field for their region over the past year.

  • Rising Star of the Year

    Louisiana Governor's Technology Awards

    The Annual Governor's Technology Awards, hosted by the Louisiana Technology Council (LTC) in conjunction with Louisiana Economic Development, emphasizes technology as a driving force behind the growth ad diversification of the state's economy. The awards focus attention on the state's existing technology-based industries, such as medical and bio-medical; micro-manufacturing; software; auto regulation; internet and telecommunications; environmental technologies; food technology and other…

    The Annual Governor's Technology Awards, hosted by the Louisiana Technology Council (LTC) in conjunction with Louisiana Economic Development, emphasizes technology as a driving force behind the growth ad diversification of the state's economy. The awards focus attention on the state's existing technology-based industries, such as medical and bio-medical; micro-manufacturing; software; auto regulation; internet and telecommunications; environmental technologies; food technology and other industries. In partnership with the Louisiana Technology Council (LTC) and LED, Governor Bobby Jindal presented awards.

  • 1st Place Winner - WalkinApp.com

    Startup Bus 2011

    Six Buses, 40 Teams, 48 Hours. The challenge was to meet complete strangers and create a winning business, but do it on a bus, and present to investors at SXSW 2011.

    Coverage: Wired Magazine
    • http://www.wired.com/underwire/2011/03/startupbus-team/
    • http://www.wired.com/underwire/2011/03/startup-bus-hangover-palm-springs/
    • http://www.wired.com/underwire/2011/03/startupbus-walkin-prototype/
    • http://www.wired.com/underwire/2011/03/startup-bus-promo-video/
    •…

    Six Buses, 40 Teams, 48 Hours. The challenge was to meet complete strangers and create a winning business, but do it on a bus, and present to investors at SXSW 2011.

    Coverage: Wired Magazine
    • http://www.wired.com/underwire/2011/03/startupbus-team/
    • http://www.wired.com/underwire/2011/03/startup-bus-hangover-palm-springs/
    • http://www.wired.com/underwire/2011/03/startupbus-walkin-prototype/
    • http://www.wired.com/underwire/2011/03/startup-bus-promo-video/
    • http://www.wired.com/underwire/2011/03/startupbus-finals/
    • http://www.wired.com/underwire/2011/03/walkin-tripmedi-startupbus/

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