Hand a team a high-capacity battery and no circuit diagram, and the rational thing to do is wire it to everything within reach. You get five bulbs at half strength. A weak, flickering glow where there ...

This article is Part 10 of Sally Washington's Building Policy Capability series, which looks at how to improve the work of government through high-performing policy systems. 'Sense making and making ...

September 10th is World Suicide Prevention Day. This year's theme is “Changing the Narrative” It challenges us to move beyond silence, stigma, and misunderstanding and start more open, compassionate ...

We can’t deny that AI is indeed helping governments work faster, detect patterns, improve services and make better use of data, and rightly so. But introducing AI into the public sector is not only a ...

Valuable datasets remain buried or locked in formats and systems that render them unusable, so making this data legible is a direct way to create value. Just mapping the invisible city - the hundreds ...

How should thresholds adapt locally? How do you suppress duplicate detections? How do you associate objects through time when observations become ambiguous? That led me to experiment with ideas such ...

I came across the phrase “vicious cycle of edits.” I was curious, so I asked a Large Language Model AI (which is how the AI prefers to be identified). Here are its responses to my questions, unedited ...

Affordability is Washington’s topic du jour, as both parties scramble to address it ahead of the midterms. For millions of Americans, however, affordability isn’t a slogan, it’s the difference between ...

Reorganization is one of the most tempting responses to an organizational problem. Work is moving too slowly. Two departments are stepping on each other. A director is overwhelmed. Employees are ...

For decades, human resource officials have been worrying about the difficulties of implementing effective knowledge transfer practices leaving agencies with a chronic malady: institutional brain-drain ...

Do you struggle to get your manager’s attention and time? Are you unsure how to ask for advice or support? Everyday conversations with managers can shape whether your ideas gain support, your ...

Durante años hemos hablado de fortalecer las capacidades de los gobiernos a través de mejores conocimientos técnicos, procesos, estructuras, profesionalización y tecnología. Todo ello importa y sigue ...