"civic challenges" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to issues or difficulties faced by a community or society as a whole. Here is an example of how it can be used in a sentence: "The city council has proposed a plan to address the various civic challenges currently facing our community, including improving public transportation and addressing homelessness."
Civic challenges such as urban mobility and energy problems offer new corporate innovation opportunities.
Donovan Guttieres, an IDSS student organizer, said one of his primary objectives for the hackathon was to demonstrate the importance of cross-disciplinary collaboration to tackling civic challenges.
Mr. Biden said the American commanding general in Afghanistan had said Thursday (he actually spoke on Wednesday) that a "surge" in troops would not work there because of differences in military and civic challenges between Iraq and Afghanistan.
In the developing world, where most of the urban growth has come in recent years, mobile technologies offer a cost-effective way of managing environmental and civic challenges that figure to worsen (see "Booming Lagos, Smart City").
His high-tech startup "Synthicity" has been chosen from a field of nearly 200 applicants as one of San Francisco's six new Entrepreneurs in Residence, a program that is bringing together the private sector and city departments to explore innovative solutions to civic challenges.
Hackathons or other events can also bring developers and designers together to work on creative solutions to civic challenges.
The later experiment, in 2005, took on a different civic challenge: could journalism in the form of Today become the "ally of thought and nuance" (Gillmor's term)?
One other civic challenge for the maker movement is how to be truly inclusive.
"Don't underestimate the ethical and civic challenge that drug trafficking represents for young people and for Mexican society," he lectured, making it clear that he thought the Mexican church hierarchy had done just that.
La Cañada School Board member Ellen Multari referred to the ongoing dilemma as a "50-year-old civic challenge" but one that she and fellow La Cañada school and city officials are prepared to see through.
Held every fall and spring on the university's Homewood campus, this year's HopHacks features a new design track: the Civic Hack challenges participants to develop apps aimed at improving urban living.
