Staff of the Bloomberg Center for Government Excellence at Johns Hopkins University The Bloomberg Center for Government Excellence at Johns Hopkins University supports and coaches public sector leaders and their teams to build data-driven operations that use data,...
Data for Equity: Reflections on Data for Black Lives III
By K’lila Nooning and Angel Aliseda with the help of Perplexity.AI This November, we were honored to attend and present at the third-annual Data for Black Lives Conference (D4BL III) at the Pérez Art Museum in Miami. D4BL III brought together activists, researchers,...
Celebrating a year of City AI Connect
Two weeks ago, GovEx marked the one-year anniversary of City AI Connect, the global learning community and digital platform for cities to trial and advance the use of generative artificial intelligence to improve public services. In the year since GovEx and Bloomberg...
GovEx joins mayors and innovators from around the world in Mexico City for Bloomberg CityLab
Last week, GovEx joined more than 500 mayors and leading policymakers, innovators, and creatives in Mexico City for Bloomberg CityLab, the annual global summit for cities. As the CityLab website explains, the event was founded 11 years ago “on the principle that...
DenAI 2024: Uniting Public and Private Sectors for an AI-Enhanced Future
By Maeve Mulholland, Andrew Nicklin, and ChatGPT 4o The DenAI summit, organized by the City and County of Denver in collaboration with the Colorado Technology Association, Slalom, and Visit Denver, drew around 1,000 attendees from the tech world. The day-long event...
2023 Impact Report: GovEx leads the way to data-driven cities of the future
GovEx is proud to present its 2023 Impact Report, “Leading the Way to Data-Driven Cities of the Future.” The report details a year of innovation and evolving efforts to expand the use of data to improve lives around the world. In 2023, GovEx: Expanded our work into 10...
GovEx Spotlight: Baltimore Data Academy
Check out the latest GovEx Spotlight on the Baltimore Data Academy. Listen to our full podcast episode with Baltimore City Chief Data Officer Justin Elszasz here.
Leaders of program training African mayors joins GovEx to share progress, best practices
Representatives from the African Mayoral Leadership Initiative (AMALI) Data Programme joined members of the Bloomberg Center for Government Excellence (GovEx) team on Wednesday morning to discuss their efforts to help leaders of African cities leverage a range of data...
Data Workforce: We Want to Hear From You!
GovEx is conducting a series of virtual focus groups to gather input on the future of data work in local government, and we want to hear from you! Whether you are a leader, HR professional, or a dedicated data officer, we want to know about your experiences working...