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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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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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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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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How Breckenridge, CO Ensures Tax & Licensing Compliance

Breckenridge’s short-term rental boom—over 4,200 licenses —put intense pressure on the town’s small staff and manual processes. Facing compliance and efficiency challenges, the town teamed up with GovOS to automate its STR licensing. The new system: Cut admin time Reduced errors Improved the experience for property owners and town staff Discover the full impact of automation on Breckenridge’s STR management—download the case study.

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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.

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Graduates of Bridgeport Project Retail workforce program show ‘anything is possible’

The Whistle Post

NORWALK — As sunlight streamed into the SoNo Collection Magnificent Room upon the graduates of the Project Retail workforce education program, speakers emphasized that education breeds opportunity. The program graduates lined up beside wall-to-wall picture windows in the room and processed one by one to the stage to accept certificates while a crowd of their families and loved ones cheered and applauded their achievements.