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Earlier this month, members of the GovEx team were honored to present during the Northeast Conference on Public Administration (NECoPA) held at Pace University in New York City. GovEx coaches supporting Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative's Data track—Rachel...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

Last week, the Bloomberg Center for Government Excellence at Johns Hopkins University (GovEx) received a prestigious Diversity Leadership Award from the university’s Diversity Leadership Council. The council has recognized over 200 awardees at its annual ceremony...

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.”

By Amy Edwards Holmes Last month, the Executive Office of the President’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) updated its Uniform Grants Guidance to explain that federal grants can be used to support data and evaluation. This change will have a major impact,...

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...

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...

Last month, GovEx Executive Director Amy Edwards Holmes was asked to submit testimony to the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation on the importance of preparing public...

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.

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...