Betsy Gardner

Jun 4, 2024 | governing.com | Stephen Goldsmith |Betsy Gardner |William D. Eggers |Jared Brey

For a city government to furnish high-quality service, engage well with its communities and solve challenging issues, it must operate as an enterprise, not as a collection of discrete agencies. And that approach requires not just application programming interfaces and point solutions but an enterprise system — a technology platform and data-sharing policies that further citywide solutions and enterprisewide data literacy.

Jun 12, 2023 | governing.com | Stephen Goldsmith |Betsy Gardner

Recent waves of federal funding and rapid technological breakthroughs combine to create a once-in-a-generation opportunity to address America’s aging and dangerous infrastructure, but that opportunity is directly confronting the hard realities of government procurement capacity. There are approaches that could help public officials deal with these procurement realities.

Apr 9, 2023 | governing.com | Donald F. Kettl |Stephen Goldsmith |Betsy Gardner

From fake photos of Donald Trump being arrested by New York City police officers to a chatbot describing a very-much-alive computer scientist as having died tragically, the ability of the new generation of generative artificial intelligence systems to create convincing but fictional text and images is setting off alarms about fraud and misinformation on steroids.

Mar 28, 2023 | governing.com | Stephen Goldsmith |Betsy Gardner

This past year, for example, has brought breakthroughs that enhanced applications of digital twinning, tools that use data to build simulations predicting how a process or mechanism will perform; increased the utility of Internet of Things devices that our infrastructure and other local systems increasingly rely on; and elevated public-sector applications of artificial intelligence, including generative AI like the much-discussed ChatGPT.