Emerging Tech
News and Events on Emerging Tech
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Emerging Technology Leadership Series: Laura Manley, Harvard Technology and Public Purpose Project
In this next installment of the Emerging Technology Leadership Series we will discuss with Laura Manley, director of Harvard TAPP, what agencies should know about better understanding and managing potential risks from promising emerging technologies.
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Emerging Technology Leadership Series: AI for Government Services with Mina Hanna
Mina Hanna is the chair of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ (IEEE) Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems Policy Committee. He will share what federal managers need to know to understand this increasingly complex and expanding field.
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Emerging Technology Leadership Series: Brian Behlendorf and Blockchain
The Emerging Technology Leadership Series, hosted by the U.S. General Services Administration Emerging Citizen Technology Office, is a six-part livestream pilot to enhance the modern federal workforce with training, education and awareness of emerging technologies including Artificial Intelligence, Robotic Process Automation, Blockchain, Social Technologies and Virtual/Augmented Reality.
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An Overview of the Technology Modernization Fund (TMF)
The Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) Program Management Office and the GSA Emerging Citizen Technology Office (ECTO) are hosting a conversation to help agencies develop proposals for technology modernization projects.
Machine Learning Paired with Skilled Data Scientists is the Future of Data-Driven Decision Making
ML can provide high-value services for data management and analytics, security threat detection, and process improvement but it doesn’t stop there.
The Data Briefing: How to Build a Chatbot in a Weekend
As chatbots have become more popular, some online sites will let you create a chatbot with little or no programming.
The Data Briefing: How Blockchain’s Future Growth Will Affect Federal Agencies
Blockchains are an innovative technology which promises to radically change how society conducts business. It will take significant changes in organizational processes before agencies can begin to support blockchains.
Emerging Tech and Open Data for a More Open and Accountable Government
Open data and emerging technologies—including artificial intelligence and distributed ledgers, such as blockchain—hold vast potential to transform public services held back by bureaucracy and outdated IT systems.
The Data Briefing: Ten Years of Digital Transformation—Lessons Learned
Since 2007, a major consulting firm has conducted an annual survey on organizations’ “Digital IQ.” In the ten years of organizations grappling with digital transformation, what has been learned?
Opening Public Services to Artificial Intelligence Assistants
“Hey, Computer, how do I access my public services?” Citizens will soon be able to ask their Intelligent Personal Assistants (IPA) this question through an Emerging Citizen Technology open-sourced pilot program. The purpose of the initiative is to guide dozens of federal programs make public service information available through automated, self-service platforms for the home
Federal Pilot to Integrate Public Services Into Intelligent Personal Assistants
The demand for more automated, self-service access to United States public services, when and where citizens need them, grows each day—and so do advances in the consumer technologies like Intelligent Personal Assistants designed to meet those challenges. The U.S. General Services Administration’s (GSA)
Sharing Public Service Visions for Virtual Reality and Artificial Intelligence
I’m taking a break from sorting through dozens of concepts from federal agencies about how they want to use artificial intelligence and virtual reality for citizens in the coming months in order to share with you just some of these groundbreaking initiatives of tomorrow that can be explored at a DigitalGov University workshop this week.
GSA launches new AI, Virtual Reality, and Authentication Programs
Today we’re launching three new initiatives powered by GSA Digital Communities that leap federal agencies ahead on some of the most innovative new capabilities becoming available to our programs — Artificial Intelligence, Virtual/Augmented Reality, and the U.S. Digital Registry. These new Communities and portal are products of inter-agency collaboration and our shared commitment pushing the
Catch the Mall! With Pokemon and Public Services
“… I have never seen so many people of all ages walking around our civic spaces and small businesses interacting as I have this morning. Teens catching them. People catching them in line for coffee. Moms outsmarting their kids. Local youths teaching my toddler how to throw a ball. Full grown adults. Marines. Kids on
