by CDO Review Staff | Sep 12, 2019 | CDO Insider, Chief Data Officer, Civic Data & Tech
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has named a new acting CDO in addition to several other hires in data policy roles. Here is an excerpt from a report published in MeriTalk: Topping the list is the appointment of Steve Rosenberg as the FCC’s acting Chief...
by CDO Review Staff | Mar 7, 2019 | Civic Data & Tech, Data Inc.
The city of Cambridge (UK) has signed on with GeoSpock for its G-Cloud Initiative. GeoSpock, an extreme-scale spatial big-data company, will provide analytics services to Cambridge. Cambridge, which hopes to become a Smart City, will receive the benefit of insights...
by CDO Review Staff | Feb 26, 2019 | Civic Data & Tech, Issues & Insights
A recent survey of federal employees by the Government Business Council revealed that just a quarter of all respondents believe that federal agencies have done a good job of explaining to their people just how AI will affect the jobs there are doing and what they can...
by CDO Review Staff | Feb 26, 2019 | Civic Data & Tech
Today’s DNA synthesis methods are a great help to biologists in the lab and clinic. Yet that very same access to cheap DNA synthesizers could presumably allow terrorists to build dangerous viruses and toxins. The US government is lending its support to researchers who...
by CDO Review Staff | Feb 26, 2019 | Civic Data & Tech, Issues & Insights
AI-derived algorithms are getting more and more involved in governmental interactions with its citizens. Activities such as the allocation of government benefits, matching of students to public schools, and even the identification and sentencing of criminals are now...
by CDO Review Staff | Feb 26, 2019 | Civic Data & Tech
More than 100 government data analysts, project managers, and local officials in California took part in a data literacy event hosted by a government trade group. Rebecca Friedman reported on the ‘School of Data’ for TechWire: The event, which was held at the offices...
