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National framework for AI assurance in Australian government: Guidance when building with AWS AI/ML solutions

AWS Public Sector Blog

Mechanisms to help businesses and organisations identify and managed risks for the design and implementation of AI solutions are being introduced globally, including a variety of international standards ( ISO 42001 , ISO 23894 , and NIST RMF ), legislation ( EU AI Act ), and localised standards and frameworks such as the NSW AI Assurance Framework.

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CFP: Advocacy and Policy Work for Academic and Research Library Workers: Perspectives and Strategies #ACRL #ACRLPublication

A Library Writer's Blog

Dear Colleagues, We are issuing a call for proposals for an edited volume tentatively titled, Advocacy and Policy Work for Academic and Research Library Workers: Perspectives and Strategies to be published by ACRL (forthcoming Spring 2024).

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Library Cracks the Code on How To Tell Stories to Stakeholders: They Use Email! Here’s How Their Targeted Newsletter Works

Super Library Marketing

She wanted to share a newsletter her library sends to lawmakers and legislators. When Austin Railey III joined DML as the new Government Relations and Advocacy Director we started brainstorming how we could strategically tell our stories to decision-makers. But those methods are broad brushstrokes.”

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Celebrating Pride Month in Parks and Recreation — Episode 138

Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

In fact, just last week, the Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest LGBTQ+ advocacy group, declared a state of emergency for LGBTQ+ people in the U.S. after a wave of anti-LGBTQ legislation across the country. And while the attacks continue, the fight for equal rights continues.

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Over Forty National, Local, and Land Bank Stakeholders Join Community Progress in Asking Bank Regulators to Strengthen the CRA

Center for Community Progress

Passed in 1977, the Community Reinvestment Act (“CRA”) is one of the most important pieces of legislation working to bring financial resources into historically underserved neighborhoods nationwide. As of this blog post, Community Progress is one of several hundred commenters to submit ideas and positions to the Agencies.

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My ALA Conference

Librarian.net

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Difficultly of fomenting institutional change not just a problem for minorities

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

This will be the subject of a later blog piece, along with some issues.) Because it would bring the executive and legislative branches together, with citizens, and a foundational agenda (from the plan). In the case of China, they don't have the same investment in legacy technologies, so they can leapfrog the countries that do.