Exited to see FAIR SHARE of Women Leaders great work rewarded and supported by @PJMFnd!

We've got a new role open in our small team Connected by Data, for someone who really loves to get things done! More 👇🏻 If that's you, please apply. If you know someone great, please pass this on to them. And please R/T for reach.

You do not want to miss the shaun #data event in #africa Deep Learning Indaba

It was special to spend yesterday (W.E.B. Du Bois's birthday) at HOWARD UNIVERSITY celebrating the opening of the #helloblackworld exhibit that features data from the Black Wealth Data Center center!

“Building capacity in city halls is really important to helping cities thrive, which is critical to helping humanity thrive. “ — Amy Edmondson

I love this! To achieve better data governance, we need to change the way we think and feel about data, and to do that, we need to change the terminology we use and create new stories.

A "behavioral scale of public innovation" to gauge the adoption of innovative behaviours in gov't over time - from Enap enap.gov.br/pt/acontece/no…

We're counting on #localgovs to deliver on climate, migration, pandemic recovery, & more. But we have little data on their problem-solving capabilities--or how they vary from one place to the next. We're 💖to partner w/ Mariana Mazzucato & UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose to fill that gap.👇 #statecapacity

The Tayarisha Centre is proud to be editing four sections of The Palgrave Encyclopaedia of Public Policy and Public Administration in the Global South and invites abstracts that relate to Artificial Intelligence, Digital Governance, Civic Tech Innovation and Gov-Tech Innovation

Do you know leaders who are pioneering on #infrastructure? Nominate them to attend Bloomberg Philanthropies’s 2023 #CityLab. This year’s CityLab will honor those leading in infrastructure with a focus on those leveraging federal funding. Submit by June 15: localinfrastructure.org/citylab/

NEW: Generative AI could transform society — but the human biases the technology can amplify may do more harm than just perpetuating stereotypes. Read The Big Take ⬇️ trib.al/qyNi6sL

Beyond new public management - a new public service reform playbook ippr.org/blog/great-gov…

As part of #CityLab2023 in Washington DC, we'll be bringing 100 of the top #localgov infrastructure leaders for an Infrastructure & Innovation Summit, with tons of peer sharing. We're taking nominations from small towns and big cities alike here: localinfrastructure.org/citylab/

Istanbul's "pay it forward" mutual solidarity platform goes international bloomberg.com/news/articles/… [and another example of exaptation in crisis "the city saw an opportunity… to respond to a crisis that hadn’t been imagined when the platform was created"] ht James Anderson

🗓🗓🗓 ONE WEEK REMAINING! PJMF's open call for applications to the 2024 Data Practice Accelerator grant program focused on Data at the Nexus of #Climate and #Health will close on *June 30th, 2023*. The Data Practice Accelerator’s goal is to de-risk le…lnkd.in/ezewVY_F

An overview of London's "public digital infrastructure" - e.g. The Infrastructure Mapping App: open and ‘non-open’ commercial data from 45 utilities & agencies so roads are dug up only once to install water, electricity and gas pipes chiefdigitalofficer4london.medium.com/londons-new-pu…

"We need to develop a new set of policy capabilities that acknowledge uncertainty as a feature, not as a bug." Radical uncertainty is here to stay and how governments everywhere should respond. Interesting read by Milica Begovic UNDP Innovation link.medium.com/J89d5mQliBb

Excited to be part of a team that is doing such important and much needed work. Onward and upward!

We are hiring a Research Fellow in Urban Economics UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose to help design our Public Sector Capabilities Index. Read about the new project here: bit.ly/43aVLoM. And apply here ➡️ rb.gy/fcony

In Bloomberg Philanthropies’s global City AI Connect community, cities discuss the real use cases and the shared challenges they face in deploying #GenerativeAI. Excited to talk about both w/ city officials from City of South Bend and City of Boise on this week’s #FollowTheData