Fri.Aug 02, 2024

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Healthy organizations keep winning, but the rules are changing fast

McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

Driving higher organizational health and performance means focusing on new practices: empowering employees to make decisions, using technology to create value, and updating leadership styles.

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Is Your Commute Harming Your Health?

The City Fix

Daily commutes via car have evolved into more than mere trips – they greatly influence both our mental and physical well-being. Research shows that relentless car journeys don’t just occupy our time, they significantly shape our mood and overall outlook.

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Reimagining labor to close the expanding US semiconductor talent gap

McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

The US semiconductor industry is poised to expand exponentially by 2030. But how can an industry already facing attrition staff its growing operations? With a paradigm shift in its approach to labor.

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Summer & Learning Programs: A Mayor and Superintendent Collaboration in Madison, WI

NLC (National League of Cities)

By Madison Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway and Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD) Superintendent Dr. Joe Gothard “Which one of you is the Mayor and who is the Superintendent?” asked Aubrey, a curious 9-year-old, as the guests walked into her classroom at the Bayview Foundation. It was quickly sorted out who was who.

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Overcoming Operational Challenges in Parks & Recreation

Speaker: Noratek

Maintaining parks and recreation facilities efficiently is no easy task, especially when faced with scheduling issues, aging infrastructure, and inconsistent inspections. Join us for this insightful webinar where we explore the most common challenges departments like yours are facing and how digital tools like CityReporter can help you streamline operations, ensure safety, and make better use of your resources.

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Quote of the day: cars and pedestrians

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

There's an article, " Push. Pray. Walk: After yet another death, should Toronto replace these dangerous pedestrian crossovers? ," in the Toronto Star about pedestrian crossings--not full traffic signals--and how there are plenty of close calls, and deaths from time to time. I like this particular paragraph. Much of Toronto’s pedestrian infrastructure — and this goes for bike infrastructure too — was seemingly designed with the idea that the city’s drivers would have some baseline level of aptitu

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AI training with synthetic data

Open Access Government - Technology News

Generative AI models like OpenAI’s GPT-4 and Stability AI’s Stable Diffusion have become incredibly adept at creating text, code, images, and videos – but what can synthetic data do to improve these services Training these models requires huge amounts of data, and developers are already facing shortages. This has led to interest in using synthetic data, which is cheaper, limitless, and poses fewer privacy risks.