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854 results for "Open Data"

854 results for "Open Data"

"Boston About Results" and Finding the Right Reporting Balance

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July 15, 2013 Performance Measurement This is the third in our performance measurement series. Read the first and second articles. Visitors to the Boston website “ cityofboston.gov/bar” are first met with a grid of sixteen flashy icons. They show children...

Recast - The Complicated Interplay: AI and Government

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In this episode Professor Goldsmith interviews Professor Dan Huttenlocher, inaugural dean of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing and expert on artificial intelligence and computer science. They discuss the different ways that generative AI could be...

Monitoring Air Quality and the Impacts of Pollution

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May 15, 2015 Public Health A city’s air is one of its most critical resources. From the factory smoke of industrializing cities, to the smog hanging over the 20th century American metropolis, to the haze enveloping contemporary Beijing, city governments...

How Urban Planning and Shade Design can Combat Extreme Heat

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In this episode, host Stephen Goldsmith speaks with Dr. Kelly Turner, Associate Professor of Urban Planning and Geography at UCLA and Associate Director of the Luskin Center for Innovation. Dr. Turner delves into the concept of "shade infrastructure,"...

Expanding Discretion and Accountability in the Context of AI

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Digital tools expand the ways officials engage with the public, providing them more opportunities to anticipate and respond. Meaningful action requires public employees to possess the agility, flexibility, and authority to understand a need and its causes...

Edward Glaeser on the Survival of Cities

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At our spring 2023 Project on Municipal Innovation event the world-renowned economist, author, and Harvard professor Edward Glaeser spoke to chiefs of staff and deputy mayors of 30 of the largest US cities about the history of cities and pandemics, the...

Video: Infrastructure Innovation Summit

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December 19, 2022 Infrastructure On October 6, 2022 Data-Smart City Solutions hosted the Infrastructure Innovation Summit, supported by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. This video shares important insights, ideas, and innovations from panelists...

When Residents and Algorithms See Different Problems

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An analysis of roughly 187,000 citizen reports and nearly 5,000 computer vision detections in Jamaica Plain, MA shows why cities need both perspectives and raises critical questions about who gets heard. Data from 311 available at data.boston.gov/...

Building an AI-Ready City Government

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City leaders are eager to deploy AI, but the real opportunity lies in preparation: building the right organizational structures, expertise, and culture first.

Host Stephen Goldsmith speaks with Teddy Svoronos, senior lecturer in public policy at the...

The Power of Unity: Sharing Stories of Success in Indian Country

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May 3, 2021 Indian Country Founded by Professors Joseph P. Kalt and Stephen Cornell in 1987, the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development (HPAIED) aims to “understand and foster the conditions under which sustained, self-determined social...