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How to Quantify Benefits of Trees

Public Works Group Blog

Other resources to check out include their User Forum , LinkedIn account , 2024 i-Tree Open Academy. I-Tree Logo The post How to Quantify Benefits of Trees first appeared on Public Works Group Blog. The i-Tree site also lists information regarding its use internationally with examples of its use in other counties.

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Using AI to Generate Images for Public Works – Post 2

Public Works Group Blog

This tool is fairly easy to use; however, you will need to make a free account to access it. Just like with Canva, you will need an account to try out DALL-E 2. In this post, I’ll talk about a few more image generating tools I have tried. The first is Canva.

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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

The post Reflections on government and COVID19: expertise, the role of government, the new public work, social imagination and beating the binary #3 appeared first on Public Purpose.

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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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Don’t Trash This Place: The Trucks Are Watching

GovLoop

In Columbia, South Carolina, garbage trucks could become the eyes of the city’s Public Works Administration. Homeowners associations are optimistic about the increased accountability that City Detect may bring to Columbia. But it’s difficult for code enforcement officials to learn about and process every incident.

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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