How to Stop Worrying about IT and Focus on the Data
By simplifying the IT environment and reducing technical debt, an agency can focus on getting value from the data rather than managing the hardware on top of which it runs. Flash storage can help.
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Using AI to Reinforce Our Highest Values and Rebuild Trust in Government
The proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) offers new opportunities and increased efficiencies. But as AI takes an ever-more important role in our daily lives, we must ensure that it’s used ethically and without bias.
How to Accelerate Speed to Insight
One of the best measures of productivity when it comes to data is speed to insight — that is, how quickly employees can begin turning data into meaningful analysis. Here are some tips to speed the process.
Defining Open Data
Agencies are using open data to advance health equity and reduce opioid overdoses. Here are some tips for using open data in your community.
How Texas Is Cultivating a Data-Savvy Workforce
Texas needed a more data-savvy workforce. Here’s what they did to enhance data literacy in the workforce they already have.
How HUD’s Customer-focused Mindset Shapes Its Mission-focused Strategy
To address the affordable housing crisis, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is employing new strategies to help both troubled consumers and the HUD staff who assist them.
A New Way to Think About Managing Data
Legacy data management solutions weren’t designed to analyze data scattered across an organization, most likely in siloed systems and both on premises and in the cloud. What agencies need is a common data platform that indexes the data where it currently exists.
What the Digital Transformation Journey Looks Like for State and Local Governments
A robust digital transformation strategy can help state and local governments better meet citizen expectations. Experience-as-a-service, or XaaS, solutions play an important role.
A Healthy Dose of Simplification at CDC
The pandemic drew new attention to the convulated process of data sharing between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and state and local authorities. A new cloud-based initiative has modernized the system.
Why Data Leaders Are Talking About Outcomes
Arguing from outcome rather than policy has important ramifications when it comes to the budgeting and appropriations processes.