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Reflections on government and COVID19: expertise, the role of government, the new public work, social imagination and beating the binary #3

Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

In my work in the public sector over the last 20 years or more, one of the most familiar tropes is the exasperated crusade so many engage in to find better ways to collaborate within and across governments and between governments and the wider community. Or is that merely fantastical, reeking of an unhelpfully naïve romanticism?

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AI trustworthiness: Is the biggest AI challenge cultivating trust?

Open Access Government - Technology News

Recent releases of powerful large language models demonstrate that AI technologies are advancing much faster than the standards, benchmarks, policy, governance, or accountability mechanisms necessary to keep them trustworthy. Even defining what AI trustworthiness looks like has been a challenge. That’s an important start.

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How Google Cloud is helping U.S public sector agencies during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond

Google Public Sector

we’re working with state agencies like the Oklahoma State Department of Health on solutions for medical staff to engage remotely with at-risk people who may have been exposed to the coronavirus. Finally, around the country, we’re also supporting remote learning for public schools and universities. In the U.S.,

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Saving the planet through procurement: Governments are identifying ways to use purchasing to achieve and support sustainability goals

American City & Country

According to the MarketLinks blog, Sustainable Public Procurement and the Business Environment , “taxpayers around the world are increasingly holding governments accountable to spend public funds for their social and economic benefit in a sustainable manner.

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The mining of the public domain

Librarian.net

“ Public.work is a search engine for public domain content.” ” The site claims to have over 100,000 public domain images. It’s gorgeous, a fun and engaging discovery layer where every search becomes a URL that can be shared [ example ] and the page of images endlessly scrolls up, down, and even sideways.