The White House Meets with 7 Big Tech Companies – Releases Commitments on Managing AI

The White House has just announced that that it accepting pledges from a number of high-profile tech companies for the safe development of AI. The Fact Sheet for today’s meeting can be found here. Seven companies — Google, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, OpenAI, Anthropic and Inflection — convened at the White House today to announce the voluntary agreements.

Using Basic Data to Improve Public Services

In this contributed article, Prahlad Koti, a Partner at Netcompany, examines exactly what we mean when we talk about basic data, and how its digitization can assist the public and private sector. The digitization of public services is at the very top of government agendas across Europe, but the lack of accessible and reliable data, such as core information about individuals and businesses, creates challenges for digital administration.

insideBIGDATA Guide to Government – Part 3

This white paper from Dell Technologies and AMD examines big data analytics projects in government and recommends 15 lessons government agencies can learn. Big data is big business, particularly in the government sector. According to market researchers at IDC, worldwide spending on big data and business analytics solutions grew 10.1% in 2021 to total an estimated $215.7 billion. And a lot of that spending came from the public sector as the government was among the top six industries for overall expenditures related to big data analytics.

insideBIGDATA Guide to Government – Part 2

This white paper from Dell Technologies and AMD examines big data analytics projects in government and recommends 15 lessons government agencies can learn. Big data is big business, particularly in the government sector. According to market researchers at IDC, worldwide spending on big data and business analytics solutions grew 10.1% in 2021 to total an estimated $215.7 billion. And a lot of that spending came from the public sector as the government was among the top six industries for overall expenditures related to big data analytics.

insideBIGDATA Guide to Government

This white paper from Dell Technologies and AMD examines big data analytics projects in government and recommends 15 lessons government agencies can learn. Big data is big business, particularly in the government sector. According to market researchers at IDC, worldwide spending on big data and business analytics solutions grew 10.1% in 2021 to total an estimated $215.7 billion. And a lot of that spending came from the public sector as the government was among the top six industries for overall expenditures related to big data analytics.

insideBIGDATA Guide to Government

This white paper from Dell Technologies and AMD examines big data analytics projects in  government and recommends 15 lessons government agencies can learn. Big data is big business, particularly in the government sector. According to market  researchers at IDC, worldwide spending on big data and business analytics solutions grew 10.1% in 2021 to total an estimated $215.7 billion. And a lot of that spending came from the  public sector as the government was among the top six industries for overall expenditures related to big data analytics.

Non-negotiables for SaaS solutions

In this contributed article, Jon Siegler, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at LogicGate, discusses the future of the graph database, its impact on SaaS solutions, and his experience architecting products built on the flexible data model.

The Data Governments are Using AI to Fight COVID-19 in Africa and Asia

Fraym is using artificial intelligence and machine learning to help aid organizations in Africa and South Asia identify populations at risk due to Covid-19 using new geospatial visualizations.

Addressing Governmental Challenges when Engaging AI, ML and Data Analytics

Gartner recently stated that all industries and levels of government agree the top three game-changing technologies today are AI/machine learning, data analytics/predictive analytics and cloud technologies. However, there are some primary sticking points when it comes to innovation in these areas. Government organizations continue to encounter challenges when trying to pursue these initiatives due to complex security and compliance requirements, poor scalability of legacy IT infrastructure, and perceived risks associated with cloud and IT modernization efforts. How can these challenges be addressed?

From “Lake” to Insight: How Federal Agencies Can Get More from Their Big Data Platforms

In this contributed article, Chris Brown, Senior Associate, and David Cunningham of Principal, Booz Allen Hamilton, suggests that overcoming data lake obstacles involves a combination of processes, culture, and appropriate technology choices. By employing modern data management platforms and best practices from the outset, agencies can start flipping the 80-20 rule of data science—and start putting the valuable information they collect to work for their missions.