In May, GovEx celebrated the 10th Anniversary of the federal Digital Accountability and Transparency (DATA) Act, the country’s pioneering open data law. This groundbreaking, bipartisan legislation mandated an unprecedented level of transparency in federal spending,...

City AI Connection is a series of posts on emerging ideas in artificial intelligence, with a focus on government application. These articles are initially shared exclusively with the City AI Connect community and subsequently with a broader audience via the Bloomberg...

Putting artificial intelligence to work in government requires an investment in core data practices at all levels of public service.  That’s what GovEx founder Beth Blauer told the U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee this week as part of...

This week, Beth Blauer, founder of GovEx and Associate Vice Provost of Public Sector Innovation at Johns Hopkins University, participated in a panel on youth gun violence in Baltimore as part of the inaugural Impact Maryland event, hosted by the Baltimore Banner....

A team of Johns Hopkins University-affiliated education, public health, and data experts found that school mask mandates during the 2021-22 school year were most significantly related to political, demographic, and geographic characteristics, not the number of...

When the Bloomberg Center for Government Excellence (GovEx) recently hosted colleagues from the Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Center for Gun Violence Solutions (CGVS), a crucial fact emerged from the discussion: to effectively curb alarming rates of gun...

The guide offers food system resilience strategies and tools that can be customized by local governments and policymakers.  The Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future (CLF) and the Bloomberg Center for Government Excellence developed a new tool, Food System...

The Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus Resource Center dashboard is referenced in this May 2022 article by USA Today. — When the U.S. surpassed 1 million COVID deaths Tuesday, the somber milestone provided yet another reminder of the enormous human toll extracted by...

The Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus Resource Center dashboard is referenced in this May 2022 article by NPR. — One million. That’s how many people have now died from COVID-19 in the U.S. since the pandemic began, according to Johns Hopkins University. It’s a toll...

Our Johns Hopkins University Centers for Civic Impact Executive Director Beth Blauer is quoted in this April 2022 article by CNN. — Many states are scaling back on how often they report key Covid-19 statistics, a shift that some experts worry might hinder efforts to...

Our Johns Hopkins University Centers for Civic Impact Executive Director Beth Blauer is quoted in this March 2022 article by Nature which discusses the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center. — In March 2020, Beth Blauer started hearing anecdotally that COVID-19...

Our Johns Hopkins University Centers for Civic Impact Executive Director Beth Blauer is quoted in a March 2022 article by The New York Times. — Though many global coronavirus trends are rapidly improving as countries emerge from surges driven by the highly...

If you’re reading this and you work in local government, chances are you already know the importance of data. You might also feel pressure to do more with data: generate more, analyze more, report more. If this neverending push for more makes you feel overwhelmed,...

Our Johns Hopkins University Centers for Civic Impact Executive Director Beth Blauer is quoted in this February 2022 article by CNN. — As the Omicron wave recedes in the United States, public health officials are faced with a new round of decision-making on the best...

Our Johns Hopkins University Centers for Civic Impact Executive Director Beth Blauer is quoted in this January 2020 article by the Wall Street Journal. — More than one million new Covid-19 infections were reported in the U.S., a sign of the rapid spread of the Omicron...

Our Johns Hopkins University Centers for Civic Impact Executive Director Beth Blauer along with Dr. Jennifer Nuzzo, associate professor of epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, wrote an op-ed in The New York Times on November 23, 2020. —...

Since closing its city center to most traffic and launching Europe’s first free-flowing bike share, the Municipality of Florence has become one of the most walkable and bike-friendly cities in the European Union, achieving what Mayor Dario Nardella pledged while...

Lincoln, NE developed 132 performance indicators to measure the City’s progress toward the 39 goals in the eight outcome areas. On its Taking Charge website, the city displays justification and support for each performance measure and describes the strategy to achieve...

Richmond is in the process of aligning its priorities, goals, and metrics. The city has identified 44 KPIs in its seven focus areas to track progress toward the city’s strategic priorities. Richmond tags each Key Priority Indicator (KPI) to the associated initiative...