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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. We did this as part of our work to develop the NIST Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework (AI RMF 1.0).

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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 other words, we either spruik the benefits of the neo-liberal, new public management framework of the past 40 years or advocate and even in some cases warmly predict the return of “socialism” or “big” government. Might the choice palette be more appetising than that sterile binary?

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One Working Capital Management Strategic Tool: Interfund Transfers

Death and Taxes

Working capital management is a managerial strategy that monitors and uses current assets (e.g., cash, accounts receivable, and inventory) and current liabilities (e.g., accounts payable and notes payable) to ensure smooth operations. By Michelle Lofton and Mikhail Ivonchyk.

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How to Prevent and Reduce Illegal Dumping

Center for Community Progress

And Illegal dumpers are hard to find and hold accountable, so they often return. Once, on a public street, someone dumped a 55-gallon drum of an extremely hazardous chemical right at the curb near a park within the city,” said Keith L. Walker, Director of the Department of Public Works in Camden, New Jersey. “It

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

Google Public Sector

Finally, around the country, we’re also supporting remote learning for public schools and universities. million accounts for students in New York City—so they can continue their school year virtually at home. You can learn more about our work here. ChiStreetWork is more user-friendly and coordinates all events and work projects.

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In extremis: what Ukraine 2.0 tells us about reforming government and the public sector

Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

By one account at least, Ukraine is in the midst of harnessing exactly that method to turn the energy of Russian aggression into potent fuel for an impressive program of root and branch reform of government and the public sector. The details of most public procurement are now made public, to make crooked transactions easier to spot.

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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.