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 ...

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 ...

There are a great many concerns around artificial intelligence voiced by the public and state staffers, but few uses of the technology have gotten more immediate buy-in than Washington state’s use of ...

Micro, small and medium-sized enterprises make up about 95% of businesses in Paraguay, yet historically received less than 9% of public contracting spend. Many smaller businesses struggled to find ...

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 ...

Working as a child protective investigator in D.C. is a high-pressure job in a high poverty and high-needs city—and getting workers up to speed is a difficult task. The team working on D.C.’s ...

Because surely that drives and informs their task. Else, they will be up to anything than their real task. Whether a public servant is at the front or back Ultimately, there is the public it ought to ...

We live in a time of wonders. And wonders carry confusion with them, not least in how they are named. As that famous visitor in another Wonderland once mused: “When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, ...

Public servants spend a lot of time in meetings. But learning how to run a great one isn’t easy. At Apolitical's recent virtual event on How to Be a Great Facilitator, expert Vince Verlaan packed 30 ...

A growing question for public institutions is not only whether AI systems are accurate, efficient, or safe. It is also whether democratic institutions can still see the conditions they need to govern ...