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Federal Data, Local Impact: What Cities Need to Know

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Host Stephen Goldsmith speaks with Denice Ross, Director of Federal Data Policy at the Federation of American Scientists, about the relationship between local and federal data, what city CDOs should prioritize, and why cities have untapped power to shape...

Agentic AI Comes to City Hall

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Data-Smart City Pod host Stephen Goldsmith speaks with Boston CIO Santi Garces and Harvard Business School Professor Mitch Weiss to explore the "growing gap" between AI capability and organizational adoption.

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/...

City Leadership in the AI Era

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Listen to host Stephen Goldsmith speak with two leading voices at the intersection of local government, data, and AI: Rochelle Haynes, Managing Director of What Works Cities and Carrie Bishop, who leads data and AI initiatives for the Government...

How GenAI Can Actually Boost Public Sector Creativity

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This episode features Mike Sarasti, former Chief Innovation Officer and Director of Innovation and Technology in Miami and a leading advocate for government transformation, in conversation with host Stephen Goldsmith. They unpack how GenAI and rapid...

Washington, DC Redefines Open Data with GenAI

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Open data is entering a new era; from the mid 1990s to late 2010s, governments have been releasing publicly available data through different open data portals, budget transparency sites, and online operational dashboards. Yet the explosion of generative...

Driving Clean Streets with Data

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Seven years ago, the Data-Smart team covered a unique program in Los Angeles, the Clean Streets LA initiative called CleanStat, that was “ turning dirty streets clean through comprehensive open data mapping.” In the near decade since this program launched...

How Nashville Learned to Share Data Across Agencies

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This article originally appeared in Governing magazine. Just about every day, those of us who actively watch smart-city developments see some promising technology solution to a specific urban problem. But these encouraging advances can distract us from...

Navigating Trust in the Digital Landscape with Jacqueline Lu

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April 3, 2024 Infrastructure In this episode host Stephen Goldsmith interviews Jacqueline Lu, co-founder of Helpful Places, exploring her journey from public service to spearheading innovative digital privacy initiatives. Lu discusses the challenges and...