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City AI Connection: AI and Misinformation

City AI Connection: AI and Misinformation

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 Center for Government Excellence at Johns Hopkins University website, govex.jhu.edu.

City AI Connection: AI and Misinformation

How Machine Learning Really Works

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...

City AI Connection: AI and Misinformation

The Risks of Generative AI: Familiar Challenges and Emerging Threats

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...

Celebrating 10 years of the DATA Act

Celebrating 10 years of the DATA Act

Last week, at GovEx’s event to mark the 10th anniversary of the Digital Accountability and Transparency (DATA) Act, Robert Shea, a former leader at the White House Office of Management and Budget, described the Act as “the most significant advancement in government transparency in the world before or after.”

NAPA, GovEx join forces to expand support for local governments

NAPA, GovEx join forces to expand support for local governments

Left to right, Tony Spearman-Leach, NAPA Director of Development and Philanthropy, Gillian Townsend, NAPA Business Development and Philanthropy Manager, Rudy De Leon Dinglas, GovEx Director of Planning and Operations, Terry Gerton, NAPA President and CEO, Amy Edwards...

Seattle launches citywide data strategy as part of the Bloomberg Philanthropies City Data Alliance

Seattle launches citywide data strategy as part of the Bloomberg Philanthropies City Data Alliance

Last month, Seattle became the latest city to release a citywide data strategy as part of its work with the Bloomberg Philanthropies City Data Alliance.

Seattle’s new three-year One Seattle Data Strategy, crafted in collaboration with the Bloomberg Center for Government Excellence at Johns Hopkins University (GovEx) coaches as part of the city’s participation in the City Data Alliance, doubles down on existing best practices and explores opportunities for improvement and collaboration.

GovEx Joins U.S. Tech Policy Network

GovEx Joins U.S. Tech Policy Network

By Amy Edwards Holmes  Recently, I joined a group of local leaders from around the country at the White House to discuss how we can work to align new technology and data practices to improve the lives of all Americans. I’m proud that the Bloomberg Center for...

GovEx supports job readiness training in Memphis

GovEx supports job readiness training in Memphis

This month, GovEx’s Kel Wang, Rudy de Leon Dinglas, and Latricia Boone traveled to Memphis to lead a two-day data and performance management workshop as part of Opportunity Accelerator (OA). GovEx partners with Results for America and other organizations on OA, which...

GovEx leaders speak at “Knowledge into Action” conference

GovEx leaders speak at “Knowledge into Action” conference

This week GovEx Executive Director Amy Edwards Holmes, GovEx founder and Associate Vice Provost of Public Innovation at Johns Hopkins University Beth Blauer, and Amanda Daflos, Executive Director of our sister center, the Bloomberg Center for Public Innovation,  spoke...