Federal, state, and local government entities are increasingly communicating, interacting, and providing services digitally in an online and networked environment. Concurrently, urban planners and administrators seek to leverage the potential of rapidly evolving technologies to transform service provisioning for the efficient management of assets and resources, with the goal of creating sustainable, livable, innovative, and economically vibrant cities and communities. This course will examine the intersection of these two developments and provide a framework for understanding the technical, policy, and information management issues that are emerging.